The old man smiled beneficently, if a trifle smugly. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
Vvelz entwined his fingers and regarded them beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
Cowperwood smiled encouragingly, quite beneficently, and Chaffee. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
But that they do operate, immediately, powerfully, and beneficently, I can no longer doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Musharraf himself moved serenely through the crowd, shaking hands and smiling beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [After Musharraf] Reference
Perhaps you've known for years and years and are chuckling beneficently at my newfound awe. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Now he can spend it in any direction -- wisely and beneficently, or foolishly and ostentatiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
From their cushions in the great coach the ladies look down beneficently, and smile on the poorer folk. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
His face glowed beneficently in the eldritch autumn light eking through the window that overlooked the park. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference
Every leader wants to become an icon, a wise man beneficently safeguarding welfare while brooking no dissent. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Culture and Corporate Power Plays] Reference
The Kaplan, a kindly, scholarly man smiled beneficently and asked, “What was the question again young man?”. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
On either side the fields were beneficently tranquil; the space through which the cavalcade moved was high and limitless. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
And he warned about a government that would beneficently cover the surface of society with minute and petty rules and regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarianism: A Primer] Reference
But all this natural process goes on, sweetly and beneficently, notwithstanding: the river gets and gives; the ocean gives and gets. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Selina had described him, he could only operate beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [A London Life and Other Tales] Reference
Gifts of healing, wherewith men walk as the Gods beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"There is your home," said the stranger, beneficently smiling on them both. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
But he was not permitted to complete the work which he had so beneficently begun. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference
Knowledge unemployed may preserve us from vice; but knowledge beneficently employed is virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
Certainly, I could not act beneficently without a just conception and recognition of the facts. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
Therein it was beneficently granted her to be of the service she prayed to be through her death. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
The wind began to blow gently and beneficently, and the murmur of it among the leaves came to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference
She congratulated herself upon the good which is thus beneficently permitted to spring out of evil. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Wisely and beneficently is it arranged that Virtue should be her own reward, since she gets no other. From Wordnik.com. [A Pessimist In Theory and Practice] Reference
That was where she came in and where her secret, her gift, would work now more beneficently than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Crystal] Reference
No monarch rules more mightily than the infant sovereign in the Kingdom of Home, and none more beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [Child-life in Art] Reference
The triumphs left enfeeblement; the defeat acted as a strong tonic which is still working beneficently to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
The Roman governors, appointed by the emperors, ruled more wisely and beneficently than in the time of the republic. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
And who should not feel amazed at the backwardness of sinners to prepare for it -- so free and beneficently offered?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordinance of Covenanting] Reference
It seemed to her as if old lady Knowles and the house would always be beneficently there because they always had been. From Wordnik.com. [Country Neighbors] Reference
The other is on gilt paper; and interests us like a sort of epistolary mummy now dead, yet which once lived and beneficently worked. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
This graphic is typical: Obama strikes a penitential pose before Abraham Lincoln, who looks beneficently down upon his Mini-Me version. From Wordnik.com. [RANGER AGAINST WAR] Reference
Upon chairs beneficently located under the trees towards the north side of the walk are interspersed small knots and coteries in repose. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
If he thought that early married life could also be classed among these beneficently uprooting agencies, he kept his thoughts to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
But, we are sorry to say, the people of this lovely village were not worthy to dwell in a spot on which Heaven had smiled so beneficently. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
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