So benignly shall he regard thee, that in the matter of asking and receiving, the customary order of things shall be reversed between you two, and the gift anticipate the request.
And the spirits looked at Psyche--the spirits smiled benignly on her, astonished that she was still alive.
When I wrote the irrelevant, drowsy chapter preceding this, the sun shone so kindly, and so benignly Nature beamed, that Care was as a dream of what never could have been.
Was there no one of the bald or grizzly-haired gentlemen who smiled so benignlywhom he could ask for aid?
And though she hears her praises, she doth go Benignly clothèd with humility, And like a thing come down she seems to be From heaven to earth, a miracle to show.
And from revolving his thumbs benignly towards himself he began to revolve them urbanely from himself.
With their hands clasped over their stomachs, they, too, benignly twirled their thumbs.
We will clear them up later," said the great detective, smiling benignly at his thumbs, which he was revolving slowly about each other as he reconstructed the case.
Smiling benignly at the children, he began to fiddle once more.
His hat was gone, his dust-covered clothes awry, but he smiled at me benignly and without a trace of surprise.
All the good fairies and graces seemed to have smiledbenignly on his birth, and to have showered on him their richest gifts.
Whereupon, striding to the fireplace, their host turned his back to it, clasped his hands behind him, and glowered benignly upon the two.
Stryker, smirking benignly and massaging his lips with the back of his hand, followed the official on deck, nodded to Kirkwood an intimation that he was prepared to accord him an audience, and strolled forward to the waist.
The sun shone benignly and the birds sang daily in the garden where the guests were wont to pass the greater part of the day.
It was all our wonder that Lord Mulgrave kept his senses, as he had not been famed for patience or piety; but I believe he was benignly inspired with both, from his deep admiration of their excellence in his lovely wife.
He merely smiled benignly upon Caput in an avuncular fashion.
My dear," said Mr. Turveydrop benignly to his son, "do you know the hour?
Lablache, usurer, scoundrel, smiled benignly at his companion as he pronounced his concluding words.
She had the air of a full, deep river benignly willing to receive without a ripple any number of such tossed pebbles, to engulf and flow over them.
He grinned benignly at her as he reached for his coat.
The pleasant glow at his stomach infused itself into his veins, mounted benignly toward his brain.
At the conclusion of this address, Mr. Weller brushed his hat with his right elbow, and nodded benignly to Jinks, who had heard him throughout with unspeakable awe.
She is seated in heavenly glory; the infant Christ, on her knee, bends benignly forward.
Sometimes the Child, bending forwards from his mother's knee, looks downbenignly on the worshippers, who are supposed to be kneeling at the foot of the altar.
On the other side hung a representation of the Madonna, simpering benignlyin a blue tea-gown besprinkled with pearls and golden lace.
He continued to advance his troops, halted at the temple of Minerva, whose earthly representative had once so benignly assisted him, and pitched his tents opposite the fane.
And yet the American union shows benignlyin the present condition and promised future of the section.
That influence is still benignly powerful, even where unrecognized.
I must give still another example, which I am sure will yet benignly enlighten America.
Growing recognition of the all-human Jesus isbenignly replacing a religion of superstition, intolerance, and dogma with one of universal love and brotherhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benignly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
