benevolences

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The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Special expenditures: the doctor and the dentist, church, benevolences, etc.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French

He did not really believe that: only it so linked up with the chain of her unceasing benevolences toward him that it seemed the only thing to complete them adequately.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

How to Use the Money.—The larger share of the money contributed by a Sunday-school ought, if possible, to be devoted to missionary work and benevolences.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.