benignancy
Example Sentences
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Opening the door of the apartment in which Clelia was anxiously awaiting her mother's return, he entered with a false benignancy upon his face.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
His brow under his snow-white hair was lofty and calm; his eyes were clear and kindly; his mouth expressed both firmness and gentleness; his whole face was benignancy itself.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
Under their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate miscarry—for in his last thought he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine tracery of fate.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
The venerable holy men on either side have all Bellini's suave benignancy and incapacity for sin: celestial grandfathers.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
When I had ended he was looking at me with a benignancy that I had never seen before upon his face.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
