Benignant but extremely cautious, he professed goodwill enough to the States but quite as much for Spain, a power with which, he observed, he had never quarrelled, and from which he had received the most friendly offices.
Benignant o'er those blessed isles, Which seen from far Colonna's height, Make glad the heart that hails the sight, And lend to loneliness delight.
What matter a few cherries for a fellow of such benignant spirit?
Why do we so seldom find pleasure in a photograph of ourselves--so seldom feel that it does justice to that benignant and Olympian ideal of ourselves which we cherish secretly in our hearts?
Mill was a great and benignant lamp of wisdom and humanity, and it was at that lamp I and others kindled our modest rushlights.
We have entire faith in the benignant influence of Truth, the sunlight of the moral world, and believe that slavery, like other worn-out systems, will melt gradually before it.
Like some benignant spirit, as it alighted on the dark bosom of the moat, the short sharp gust fluttering over, it seemed to hover there for a while ere it departed.
He has in truth the soft heart and benignant temper of his mother, joined with the masculine firmness of character which belonged to his father; which, however, is in danger of being seriously impaired by inaction.
Not quite, we trust," said Mr. Gammon, with a benignant smile.
Let there be half a score individuals looking at it, every one sees its eyes and its benignant smile directed towards himself.
If he had wanted to cross-examine her he would have found an easy witness, so tranquil and so benignant that year was every night of June in London.
This was sometimes open, and inside could be seen men hammering with chisels at enormous statues including representations of Queen Victoria and of a benignant lion.
Then he heard old Caryll's rasping cough and broken benignant sentences, which with all their memories lulled his emotion to quietude again.
It is that benignant spirit which does not reckon up the injuries received with a view of having satisfaction for them.
That orb in the skies, shedding the benignant rays over the earth, tells of Him who is the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings.
Back of the young man, unseen by him, the artist has painted a calm, benignant figure.
Devoted principally to Social Matters, and the benignant Bearing of V.
He said that no scheme of politics brought them together this time: but a humble, heartfelt wish to thank a benignant Heaven for the downfall of a mighty people's enemies.
Noting the utter Destruction, by an inebriated Journalist, of the Venerable Gammon's benignant Speech.
His face a human righteousness expressed, 10 'Twas so benignant to the outward view; A serpent was he as to all the rest.
Deceitful Star, whose beams are bright to blind, Although their morebenignant influence poured The light of glory on the Switzer's sword, And hallowed Washington's immortal name.
He looks like one on whom the good things of this world have fallen in a constant and benignant shower, which shower hath fallen on a rich and fertile soil.
The weather was his client, and he strove by special pleading to convince his companions in that frigid jury-box that they sojourned in a bower of roses, beset only by benignant zephyrs.
Lemon-coloured kid gloves protected his oak-tough hands from the benignant May sunshine.
Gods forefend that I should shun That benignant Mother's son!
As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines.
They could conceive nothing more benignant and more beautiful, more provident and more powerful, more essentially divine, than that system of creative order to which they owed their being, and in which it was their privilege to exist.
Then he joined their right hands, and they went down on one knee, and he placed his hands on their heads, and looked up at the audience with a benignant smile, and the curtain fell amid rapturous cheers.
His wounded soldiers were charmed by the benignant courtesy with which he walked among their pallets, assisted while wounds were dressed by the hospital surgeons, and breakfasted on a porringer of the hospital broth.
The power of a society to pay debts is proportioned to the progress which that society has made in industry, in commerce, and in all the arts and sciences which flourish under the benignant influence of freedom and of equal law.
We have hitherto seen only the luminous or white cat, the cat-moon and twilight, under a generally benignant aspect.
As a hero transformed, the wolf has a benignant aspect in legends.
The German hero Wolfdieterich, the wolves who hunt for the hero in Russian stories, sacred to Mars and to Thor as their hunting dogs, have the same benignant nature.
Of the two cats, one is probably benignant and the other malignant; they represent perhaps night and twilight.
He stood and listened with a benignant smile to their loving words.
The benignant Russell merely wished to impress upon Rita's mind that he had very friendly feelings toward her, and that, if she would help him, he was in a position to reward her handsomely.
Rita laughed again at this, and her large black eyes fixed themselves with bolder admiration upon the benignant face and splendid dress of the gallant tailor.
His ethics are taken from the law of Moses, and not from the more benignant versions of it.
That the stern Ignatius, from whom he had shrunk, while he revered him, and this benignant parent were one, amazed, while it called forth all his gratitude to heaven for the preservation of that parent through the perils of his disguise.
But how different did the Imperial Elizabeth appear in her court, to the benignant Princess, who was all ease and smiles in the boudoir of her beautiful favourite!
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