Had they both been standing the gesture would have been impossible to Dr Drummond with dignity; as it was, it had not only that, but benignance, a kind of tender good will, rare in expression with the minister, rare, for that matter, in feeling with him too, though the chord was always there to be sounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

In the douce benignance of equinoctial sunshine we gaze about us with eyes of inventory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mince Pie] Reference

In place of the passion of youth and all youth's mad revolt, was the benignance of wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

Ben Nazir smiled like a prince out of a picture-book -- beautiful white teeth and exquisite benignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

Pride seemed in some strange way to hallow her, to give an unimagined benignance to her eyes, an unearthly brightness to the smile upon her lips and the colour upon her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Feathers] Reference

As the frenzy of cheering died away, Quimbleton's face took on the glow of simple benignance that Bleak had first observed at the time of the julep incident in the Balloon office.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference

This line of argument might perhaps have been powerful if adopted earlier, but by that time the agreeable vision of Bleak's ascetic features wreathed in a faintly spiritual benignance was already firmly fixed in the public imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference

Mrs. Clark, who was Elizabeth Scriven, was a woman of exceptional gifts of mind and benignance of character, well qualified to assume the responsibilities which fell upon her when Alfred Corning Clark died, at the age of fifty-three years, in 1896.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Cooperstown] Reference

Of a grand impersonal benignance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Precipitations] Reference