"And now tell me who is the lady whom Mr. Brocklehurst called your benefactress?". From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.] Reference
I shall be an old woman then, and should, it may be, have less objection to being known as his benefactress than at present. From Wordnik.com. [A Romantic Young Lady] Reference
"benefactress! benefactress!" said I inwardly: "they all call Mrs. Reed my benefactress; if so, a benefactress is a disagreeable thing.". From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.] Reference
I shall always think of you as my merciful benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
Nor did he forget his would-be benefactress, Nell Cassidy. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Ana-purna (the corn-goddess), the benefactress of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
I was eighteen when my benefactress, Mother Marechal, died. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Softly she laid her benefactress down upon the blossom pillow. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
But how could I? thou wast my benefactress, my more than wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
You have yet much to achieve -- will become a real benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Castle, and do you accompany my benefactress to her humble home. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Catherine of Russia, the friend of Voltaire and the benefactress of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Her benefactress left her, at her death, a legacy of 8,000 dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The benefactress withdrew to consult her books, but returned presently. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Ask how I can feel other than gratitude and devotion to my benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
The very unusual name of a benefactress must be noticed -- Tryphena Tobys. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Who is our benefactress in the authorship of these books, the world knows not. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
An unmarried sister, with noble devotion, sustained the nation's benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference
Lady Hester as a generous benefactress, admired and adored in all the country-side. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
But this, he feared, would be unwelcome, since she chose to be his unknown benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
She tells me to disregard the precedent, in order that she should pose as a benefactress!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"I will obey you, Madame, as my benefactress and my second mother," Marie answered, weeping. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The poor woman, who felt the loss of her benefactress, put the corner of her apron to her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
"She is an angel," cried Griffith, "and my benefactress: no man living is good enough for her.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
It might not detain you too long to say that last week my friend, my counselor, and benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
With a fine air of the benefactress, Cynthia Walden took Sandy Morley's dense ignorance in charge. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
When affairs were in this stage the Viscountess Turpin, Bruneau's first benefactress, arrived in Rouen. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
That black benefactress surely had been an angel of deliverance from loathsome perils in London suburb. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
August 25, 1884, deeply regretted by her friends and by the poor of whom she was the constant benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
I had rather all my life have continued an ape or a dog, than to have seen my benefactress thus miserably perish. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
HONORED MADAM, -- Influenced by gratitude to our general benefactress and friend, we humbly venture to address you. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
Mary Fuller stood, after the first outbreak of admiration, looking wistfully from her benefactress to the crimson roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
They could not realize that the mother, the benefactress, whose smile had been so sweet only a few days before, was really and truly gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Inquiring, I was told that this was always sung in parting, in remembrance of an occasion very sad, but also very precious, to their benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
Remorse would then double up the manly form of Captain Dunnitt, who would fall on his knees before the landlady, -- "his benefactress! his better angel!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
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