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

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

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

Here we enter on a new range of denunciations—the inadequacy to English ideas and benevolences, not of Iberians and Celts, but of Normans and of English themselves.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.

In 1473 this greedy king sent to Sir William Hampton, Lord Mayor, to extort benevolences, or subsidies.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter