I might go up to the Big House to find out for you,' suggests Peggy, magnanimously swallowing down her own acute distaste to this proposition, and speaking with a cheerful relish, as if she liked it.
Ropes and rope-ladders were fastened and suspended, and brave men, magnanimously forgetful of the threatening danger, went down into the flames, although the hope of success was small.
You magnanimously promised me a kiss for keeping the other secrets.
We pride ourselves on the bigness of our own things, but we are not ungenerous, and when we go to Europe and find things bigger than ours, we are magnanimously happy in them.
She understood this, and magnanimously urged it as another reason why her husband should not trifle with Rose's ideal of him; to make his mother laugh at him was wicked.
She made him sit down by her in March's chair, and before he left them March heard him magnanimously asking whether Mr. Kendricks was going to do something more for the magazine soon.
It is ungenerous to triumph over the ruins of declining fame," magnanimously finished its attack upon Washington.
He magnanimously refrained from all show of offence, and after a while, when he had printed the poem elsewhere, he gave me another.
Through the modesty that is always a quality of such a nature, he was magnanimously sensitive to the appearance of fading interest; he could not take it otherwise than as a proof of his fading power.
He would go carefully over a poem with me, word by word, and criticise every turn of phrase, and after all be magnanimously tolerant of my sticking to phrasings that he disliked.
Ormonde refused to quarrel, saying magnanimously that the young man was bound to take his father's part, and that he was endowed with many virtues.
Such, according to his own account, was the Vice-Treasurer's conscious innocence that he magnanimously signed State papers which contained covert attacks upon his official conduct.
I shall magnanimously treat you as my wife as long as you give me no legal ground for divorce; therefore, be composed; your future lot is a thousand times more brilliant than you had any right to expect.
Amory could not conceal from herself that in magnanimously passing these things over as nothing, she was, after all, making Dorothy a present of a higher standard than she had any right to.
Foregone," she told herself, was the world; for the effect was the same as if she had had the royalty and had magnanimously handed it back again to the Cause.
The lion of Jena magnanimously offers once more to make peace.
Say then, what surety can be offered me, Should I magnanimouslyloose your bonds?
Two Bishops magnanimously refused; but one was found with ambitious stupidity enough: Voltaire, for the third time, failed in this small matter, to him great.
The yellow curls, sacrificing their individual distinction, had magnanimously contributed to the perfection of the exquisite golden coil at the back of her shapely head.
He forced a smile to his reluctant lips as Persis' brother entered and magnanimously put the question, "How do you find yourself to-night, Joel?
Silent she was even to her own parents, whose feelings she magnanimously spared.
France mightmagnanimously decline a share in the spoil, because by the ruin of Austria it doubly profited, and was most powerful if it did not become more powerful.
They were taking all the men and boys between the ages of fifteen and fifty-five, and magnanimously we waited weeks and weeks and weeks for them to bring these forced levies into some sort of consistency as an army.
There must be an end of referring to her as a sort of fallen woman, to whom Shelley and his wife were magnanimously beneficent.
It has been the fashion of the Shelleyan partisans to speak of the Shelleys' kindness to Claire as though she were a kind of fallen woman, whom they magnanimously sheltered from social opprobrium.
And as to convenient aliases and white fibs, where would have been the use of his wits, if Ulysses had disdained such arts, and been magnanimously munched up by Polyphemus?
In exacting the condition of a year's delay, she made her motives appear so loftily disinterested, so magnanimously friendly!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magnanimously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
