benignancy

Example Sentences

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Carlo, unaware that at that moment he might have been a buried corpse but for the benignancy of Providence in his behalf, was feeling sympathetic towards himself because he was slightly bored.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold

She took his great toil-worn hand, and her hot tears fell on it, for his gentleness, his benignancy, had touched her deeply.

From The Valley of the Giants by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

The beauty of the morning, its stillness, its serenity, its odorous opulence, struck upon my senses with a kind of ironic benignancy, as if to say, "Why agonize over so small a thing?"

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

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 Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

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 Garibaldi, Giuseppe