But when you come to consider, there is nothing very noble, after all, in a hopeless passion for an elderly man of the world who is past being benefited by it, even if he could reciprocate it.
But life with that kind of sentiment doesn't last, it seems, and nobody is benefited by it.
This was very singular in such reprobates, who, by their own confession, had forfeited all claim to bebenefited by that holy symbol: it curiously suggests that the forms of religion may still be kept up in purgatory and hell itself.
It is a well-known fact that many of the canvassers never looked behind them after that memorable time, and numbers of tradesmen signally benefited by the money that was spread about with such liberal hands.
These he took down from his shelves willingly for young Esmond, whom he benefited by his own personal advice and instruction.
Warning he had: but I doubt others had warning before his time, and since: and he benefited by it as most men do.
I hold him to be our enemy, because everything he has hitherto done has benefited him and hurt us.
But at length he learned with surprise that the simple Persian soldier whom he had benefited was now king of the great Persian empire.
It would seem from the researches of the latter physicist that those plants requiring a large percentage of nitrogen for their development would be remarkably benefited if grown under electric influence.
There are cases where blows on the head have benefited the brain, and produced extraordinary changes for the better.
She had actually recovered the use of her hand in some degree, and her friends expect that she will be benefited by the accident.
Nobody knows, to say truth, how much the great, modest Hooker was benefited by what appeared to his friends his calamitous marriage.
If it be admitted that Perpetual Motion is, as scientific men tell us, a chimerical dream, it is still to be very greatly doubted if the world at large is to be benefited by dissuading minds from working on the problem.
The shrubs that are otherwise covered would be greatly benefited by having their roots protected in a similar manner as directed for herbaceous plants.
About the first of the month, all the small half hardy plants may be taken out of the green house, and those that are left will be more benefited by a freer circulation of air, which will enure them to exposure.
There are no shrubby plants cultivated in pots that are benefited by the hot sun from this period to October.
There may be many that do not require repotting, but would be benefited by a top-dressing.
If the days are mild and sunny about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, all the plants would be benefited by a gentle syringing, which retards the progress of insects, and accelerates vegetation.
Neither he, nor the public, would be benefited by such commendations as I could bestow.
They benefited by the coming of the Spaniards; they have benefited more by the coming of our own people.
Kenelm appeared to be somewhat benefited by Guerard's medicines; and the external application of camphor, now prescribed by Roche, mitigated the delirium, though it did not remove the cause.
It was, at present, Anthony Underhill that benefitedby this new arrangement.
I have not benefited thee, nor Ben Jonson neither.
It was reported to have been "powerful," and Elder Dean said he wished "our own people could have been benefited by it.
If I understand this matter rightly, it these yourself who are be to benefited by this arrangement.
The tears and sobs he heard around him from the crowd of poor children and unfortunate ones, of every degree, whom he had benefited during his too short career, recalled with violence to his heart the sad reality.
For no man more than the medical man, is bound to let his light shine--especially in the matter of general temperance, in such a manner that others may be benefited by it.
I do not know whether he thought himself at all benefitedby her prescriptions.
I do not know that any thing I have done hasbenefited it.
Many of the railroads owning land along their respective lines are greatly benefited in the selling of these lands by a knowledge of the methods whereby the lands may be made productive.
Wherever a relatively large winter precipitation occurs, the dry-farmer is benefited if it comes in the form of snow.
Those whobenefited by it were not so much the workers for wages, as the landholding peasants.
Annexation has put a stop to all that, and the towns are crowded with these fighting men, who hate us bitterly; but the peasants, the tillers of the soil, have benefited greatly.
A line of Euripides, quoted again in "How a Man may be benefited by his Enemies," ยง iv.
Furthermore, it should also be noted in this connection, that the situation as respects claims has been benefited by a detail of the law of 1906, not heretofore mentioned.
Inasmuch as a very large proportion of groceries and other supplies went by box or package, this reduction accorded on carload shipments greatlybenefited the jobbers all through the West and South.
Thus, by leaving the rates to the Central Traffic Association cities unchanged, it materially benefited those along the Missouri river by comparison.
Or the independent meat packer may be greatly benefited by a rule which permits him to bulk his soap and other by-products with other goods in securing a wholesale rate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benefited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
