benevolences
Example Sentences
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The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.
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Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.
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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
Life, Madame Aurore shrilled, was for ever using her, humble instrument though she was—for the working out of these benevolences.
From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth
He practised small benevolences and small tyrannies, liked to see smiling faces about him, and declined to believe seriously in the unhappiness of others.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive