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Example sentences for "benignantly"

Lexicographically close words:
benevolently; beniamin; benighted; benign; benignant; benigne; benignity; benignly; benison; bennets
  1. Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, 'Go back to Dora!

  2. Mrs. Hopkins looked benignantly upon the more than middle-aged tabby, slumbering as if she had never known an enemy, and turned smiling to Mistress Kitty.

  3. Again Helen laughed at her, benignantly strewing her with handfuls of the long tasselled grass, for she was so brave and so foolish.

  4. In she rushed, and the young ladies laughed and cried, kissed and talked tumultuously, while their idol benignantly looked on, vainly endeavoring to repress all vestiges of unmanly emotion.

  5. Perhaps Father Abraham might come out and smile benignantly at them for a brave deed well done.

  6. While, however, the Fates thus seemed to frown upon the aspiring attempts of Gammon towards Miss Aubrey, they smiled benignantly enough upon Titmouse, and his suit with the Lady Cecilia.

  7. While thus the Inquisition was benignantly disposed towards perjury, the secular law did not relax its severity.

  8. And you,' benignantly returned the Father of the Marshalsea.

  9. I have rather than otherwise cherished the thought that the Sienese school suffers one's eagerness peacefully to slumber--benignantly abstains in fact from whipping up a languid curiosity and a tepid faith.

  10. I feel that these honorable American gentlemen have no wish but to act justly," and he looked benignantly at his family.

  11. Mr. Figgs sat on a stone while they rested and smiled benignantly at them.

  12. As he emerged from the right wing, he caught a distinct view of a pair of soles disappearing in the distance, and benignantly asked: "Who is that, my child?

  13. Dismissed with those pleasing words, the old man took his broad hat and staff, and left the great presence: more as if he were some superior creature benignantly blessing Mr Fledgeby, than the poor dependent on whom he set his foot.

  14. I have faithful slaves,” said Xerxes, rising and smiling benignantly upon the general and the bow-bearer.

  15. Xerxes smiled benignantly and rubbed his nose with the lion’s fat while deliberating.

  16. To Daney's profound amazement, The Laird smiled benignantly and thrust out his hand, which Mr. Daney shook gingerly, as one might a can of nitroglycerin.

  17. She looked at him and through the blur of her tears she saw him smiling down at her, calmly, benignantly and with that little touch of whimsicality that was always in evidence and which even his heavy heart could not now subdue.

  18. In the official formula of the sentence the clause announcing relaxation to the civil magistrate proceeds "whom we ask and charge most affectionately to treat him benignantly and mercifully.

  19. He panted for breath, and looked benignantly round upon his friends.

  20. Having done this, Bob replaced the cork with great care, and looking benignantly down on Mr. Pickwick, took a large bite out of the sandwich, and smiled.

  21. He smiled benignantly on water, earth, and sky.

  22. At all these objects Mr Sudberry gazed benignantly as he sauntered along in the sunshine, indulging in sweet memories of the recent past, and whistling operatically.

  23. Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, "Go back to Dora!

  24. Rhadamanthus gazed benignantly at them, smiled a gracious smile, and waved his hands with the air of a judge dismissing a case.

  25. Wal, he didn't quite kill em," said Uncle Moses, turning his eyes benignantly upon the two boys.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benignantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    favorably; good; kindly; nicely; warmly; well