The keeper, when he came to bring the old man's dinner, gazed upon his benign and tranquil features with astonishment.
Then the old man arose in his bed, and his benign features lighted up with such joy as the angels know over a sinner that repenteth.
The benign smile which was so characteristic of Wilton Barnstable never left the three faces, but it was evident to Cleggett that these trained intelligences grasped and weighed and ticketed every detail.
Finally Wilton Barnstable began to stroke his mustache, and a pleased smile stole over his plump and benign visage.
On the contrary he finds it "grand and sublime, with a beard flowing down like a cataract; a truly majestic figure, but not so benign as it were desirable that such strength should hold.
I accepted all with a benign smile, and answered that I only had America and my fur-lined coat and boa to offer in return.
We all noticed that he seemed much agitated, and wondered why, and what could have happened to ruffle his benign face.
With this conviction I was now penetrated, and the feeling exerted a benign influence over me.
When they performed and I sang her compositions, there beamed in moments of excitement from her small eyes, a wonderful, poetic spirit, liked a veiled angel humbled in the dust, with benign yet terrifying splendour.
The sunshine came through the ivy and glimmered upon his great book, however, with an effect which a little disturbed the patient's nerves; besides, he desired to have a fuller view of his benign guardian.
He even fancied that the benign old man seemed to expect and await such a confidence; but that very idea contributed to make it impossible for him to speak.
Slowly following after her came the pensioner himself, leaning on his staff and looking up at the old roof and around him with a benign composure, and himself a fitting figure by his antique and venerable appearance to walk in that old hall.
It seems to be a benign provision of Nature that those who allege altruistic reasons for selfish actions invariably make themselves ridiculous.
After supper, as a matter of course, Nazinred looked round with an air of benign satisfaction on his fine face.
We only dwell and pore upon the sad and dark occurrences of Providence, but never take notice of the more benign and bright ones.
Out of it should flow benign charities, pleasant amenities, and all those influences which are the natural offspring of a high and harmonious home-life.
The charitable soul carries with it a charmed atmosphere of peace and love, breathing which all who come within its benigninfluence unfold their noblest qualities, and develop their most amiable traits.
Her spectacles had crept up and round her head, and had a rakishly benign appearance.
The races had not begun, and though an ancient of benign aspect announced continually, 'I'll take two to one!
Fervently they kissed the hem of his garment; eagerly with their eyes they sought to encounter the benign rays of his countenance.
Extend, all-merciful divinity, thy benign influence to the shores of Arvon!
All merciful and benign beings, who dwell above this azure concave, give me my Imogen!
Plymouth early made a treaty with Massasoit, the chief of the neighboring Wampanoags, the peace lasting with benign effects to both parties for fifty years, or till the outbreak of Philip's War, discussed in a later chapter.
This is one of the many examples of benign adjustment with which the realms of nature teem; for hereby a rich legacy of fertile soil, usually found at the mouths of rivers, is saved from submergence, and becomes the inheritance of man.
Deacon Winthrop was beset by questions, to which he replied with a benign affability, “We must show this young man every attention.
Even the governor, a benign old gentleman, looked very undignified in his shabby European surroundings, after the important appearance of the Moorish functionaries in their flowing robes.
My father stood on the threshold to greet us, with that benign smile, that beautiful, winning smile that had so long been slumbering on his face, but which grew brighter and brighter every time it beamed on my soul.
After our distinguished host had bidden farewell to his elder guests, whom he accompanied to the steps, he turned to me with a look so benign and affectionate I never shall forget it, and stooping, kissed my forehead.
The effective operation of such motives would have prevented the adoption of the Constitution under which we have so long lived and under the benign influence of which our beloved country has so signally prospered.
The truth is that this fine country, blessed with a productive soil and a benign climate, has been reduced by civil dissension to a condition of almost hopeless anarchy and imbecility.
Under the blessings of Divine Providence and the benign influence of our free institutions, it stands before the world a spectacle of national happiness.
Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Let me ask, What would be the state of things among us if the benign influences of Christian love pervaded every case of slave-holding as, by the grace of God, I hope it will in my case?
May we not hope, dear Aunt, that a new era is dawning upon us with regard to the universal triumph of love and kindness over oppression of every kind, and that the brute creation will partake of its benign influences?
Heaven adorned him, moreover, with the best virtues, among which was that of kindliness, so that no man was ever more benign or more amiable than he.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
