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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Levies of money were long raised under the pathetic appeal of benevolences.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

President Ouincy says of him: "He was distinguished for his private benevolences and public usefulness."

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.