benevolences
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Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 A. F. Schauffler
Charles the First, amidst his urgent wants, at first had hoped, by the pathetic appeal to benevolences, that he should have touched the hearts of his unfriendly commoners; but the term of benevolence proved unlucky.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
His extravagance kept him in constant disputes with the Parliament, who would not grant him the sums he demanded, and compelled him to resort to monopolies, loans, benevolences, and other illegal methods.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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