While he had benefitted physically through a sea-life, his boyish ideals of the romance and adventure of seafaring had been ruthlessly shattered.
The official listened courteously to McKenzie's plea (dictated by Janet) and as Suttons had benefitted considerably by the Captain's picking up the helpless Italian, the promotion was forthcoming.
The lapse of a few years more and the opportunity will be forever lost; indeed, so long already has been the interval that the number to be benefitted by any provision which may be made will not be great.
I long to know whether thy cough yet begins to be benefitted by the sunshine, and whether thou findest again the elasticity of frame and spirit, which thou leftest behind in America.
Yet I think I shall be benefitted by the absence, though it be truly an unpalatable medicine.
If thou wast not so very naughty--if thou wouldst consent to be benefitted by anything but homeopathy--here in this little box is health and joy for us!
His health and spirits seem now to be perfectly good; and I think he is benefitted by a greater regularity of eating than when at home.
He reached New York in the afternoon of the thirteenth, his health much benefitted by the journey, and his store of knowledge of the people and the country greatly increased.
The capability of the new-born infant to endure extremes of cold is almost as great as that of its mother, and sometimes even it is benefitted by them.
There are many females of a very full habit, who suffer but little from hemorrhage, unless it be excessive, indeed some seem to be benefitted by it, and are thus relieved from headache and convulsions.
Some of the restored Emigrants have most peculiarly benefitted France, by bringing into it English improvements.
He may improve his lands beyond their worth--he may ruin himself, therefore, but the country is proportionately benefitted by having so many good acres where it had before so many bad.
Music, indeed, may be said to have benefitted largely by the advent of Buddhism, for the services of the latter required a special kind of music.
The country was little benefittedby this change, as the money required for the service of the year was more than twenty-four millions, of which thirteen had to be raised by loans.
They saw also that the manufacturer could bebenefitted by enlarging the home market, and they instituted an aggressive immigration policy which developed the great North West in a marvellous way.
Whether when he finally emerges he has benefittedmorally may be doubted.
A corpse was really guillotined, for he was already dead with fright, and had pardon come at the eleventh hour it could not have benefitted him.
The destruction of every venomous snake is rewarded by the state, but it is really a question if the country has benefitted by it in any way.
Of course, the man who entirely gives up the use of salt may feel out of sorts for a few days; but, if he keeps up his spirits, he is bound to be immensely benefitted in the long run.
I myself left off the use of salt two years ago, and I have not only not suffered by it, but have even been benefitted in some respects.
Those who are suffering from constipation are appreciably benefitted by the use of distilled water.
We should understand that even the most delicate people will be benefitted by systematically inhaling fresh air.
Such, at any rate, has been the case with me; and I have ventured to translate the book into English in the hope that others may also be benefitted likewise.
Instances of emancipation have not essentially benefitted the African, and probably never will, while he remains among us.
The slaves would be greatly benefitted by the removal of the free blacks, who now corrupt them and render them discontented.
How inconsistent are those who say, that Africa will be benefittedby the removal of the free people of color of the United States there, while they say, they are the most vile and degraded people in the world!
It was at an early period seen and acknowledged, that neither the objects of benevolence nor the interests of the nation could be materially benefitted by any plan or measures that permitted them to remain within the United States.
It would have been infinitely better for our race, if these facts had been presented before us half a century ago--we would have been now proportionably benefitted by it.
Injured and diseased feet may no doubt be benefitted by some elastic appliance which secures them from the jar of contact on a hard road.
The screaming fits of night terrors in children arebenefitted by these medicines.
Nervous and atonic dyspepsias are often benefitted by the use of bitter beer, and by drachm doses of brandy or whisky largely diluted.
Many of the Fathers vigorously protest against the idea that the dead can be benefitted by any prayers on their behalf, and strongly assert their changeless state in the other world.
How great a proportion of such lands would be benefitted by draining, it is impossible to estimate.
The theory has received support from the known fact, that most soils are benefittedby Summer fallowing.
Turnips are benefitted by liberal applications of soluble phosphoric acid.
Some soils, however, are deficient in lime and some crops, particularly the legumes, are benefitted by direct feeding with lime.
Always there were Agamemnons before Agamemnon; and Haydn borrowed and imitated like everybody who is first student and then master (in his old age, sogar, he learnt of and benefittedby Mozart).
I have seen with some satisfaction, also, Mr. President, that the war made upon us has benefitted certain branches of industry in my State.
It is evident, therefore, that those riparian owners who own existing water-power grants are directly benefitted by the improvement in the navigable water.
By using a more subtle, convincing, and practical approach, we are convinced that success will be attained and that wildlife will be benefitted in the end.
Many specimens were moved to experiment stations under Government control, while other institutions as well as individuals benefitted by their collection.
Virginia might continue the prohibition of such importation during the intermediate period, and would be benefitted by it, as a tax of ten dollars on each slave might be laid, of which she would receive a share.
Your wish to obtain the good-word of the poor has not really benefitted them, and has done serious injury to the rest of your neighbours.
Who could approach him without feeling the benign influence, and being benefitted by the rich supply?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benefitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
