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Example sentences for "philanthropist"

Lexicographically close words:
philanderer; philandering; philanthropic; philanthropical; philanthropies; philanthropists; philanthropy; philatelic; philatelists; philippic
  1. Since the date of the above note, the spirit and policy of the ascendant class have been just that which a philanthropist would have deprecated, and a cynic predicted.

  2. The old philanthropist was there, and every one was secretly surprised to discover what a very fine-looking old man he was in a perfectly new frock coat with a great deal of silk in front.

  3. The old philanthropist did not even ask after Katharine at dinner, though he was fond of her.

  4. The indefatigable philanthropist had him brought before the lord mayor as sitting magistrate.

  5. The philanthropist was threatened with a prosecution for abstraction of property, but it was abandoned.

  6. The choice fell on the famous Jewish philanthropist in London, Sir Moses Montefiore, who stood in close relations to the court of Queen Victoria.

  7. On that occasion a fund was established under the name of Mazkeret Moshe, "A Memorial to Moses," in honor of the English philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, whose hundredth birthday was celebrated in that year.

  8. In every light, then, in which this great subject can be viewed, it is one which well deserves the careful attention equally of the philanthropist and the statesman.

  9. She corroborated Wimp's statements as to Constant's occasional visits, and narrated how the girl had been enlisted by the dead philanthropist as a collaborator in some of his enterprises.

  10. Among young Morse's friends in England at that time was Henry Thornton, philanthropist and member of Parliament.

  11. Our country presented to the animated philanthropist one uninterrupted display of liberty, of gaiety, and of felicity.

  12. And travel through any State in the Union, and their effects may be readily seen, affording a prospect, consoling and elevating to the philanthropist and the patriot.

  13. The Secretary of the OBS was usually regarded as a sort of philanthropist by the outside public, and it was necessary to keep this fiction alive.

  14. And when they had finished eating they gathered round the philanthropist and sang, 'For he's a jolly good fellow,' and afterwards Harlow suggested that they should ask him if he would allow them to elect him to Parliament.

  15. Harlow of another Philanthropist who was also pushing up behind the carriage.

  16. The philanthropist nodded and touched a bell on his table.

  17. I need not repeat the highly colored phrases in which the unsuspecting philanthropist commended me to this artful and formidable woman as a fellow-worker in the holy cause of human brotherhood.

  18. The blind philanthropist may perhaps be excused for not seeing beyond his nose, and for ignoring "unseen" in favour of "seen" results.

  19. This contradiction of the present certain effect and the probable future effects confronts the philanthropist at every turn.

  20. It must be confessed that on this occasion the British philanthropist was willing to pay for what he thought was right.

  21. Never, surely, was there such a festive philanthropist as Mrs. St. John Deloraine.

  22. All this the philanthropist was constrained to admit; but he was, not unnaturally, quite unable to submit any explanation of his proceedings.

  23. An American philanthropist who died recently was in the habit of girding at the arrangements of the universe, which did not seem to him organised after the fashion of a bureau of beneficence.

  24. T is a central bureau of beneficence, to which each doubting philanthropist should send such sums as he knows not how to dispense.

  25. The philanthropist would have been more within the bounds of the reasonable if he had demanded that disease should be more egotistic and less epidemic.

  26. But the good the philanthropist does is resolved into fame founded on one of the surest things known--taxes.

  27. No one but a philanthropist would go out to see a man when in such pain.

  28. I'm no philanthropist who's trying to reform the world for the fun of the thing--who's willing to starve to death for the sake of an attractive tombstone.

  29. That philanthropist is a fraud who, after piling up a colossal fortune at the expense of the common people, leaves it to found an educational or eleemosynary institute when death calls him across the dark river.

  30. He takes up his whip, gently snaps it as tho' he feared it were loaded, and talks to his cattle like a Boston philanthropist to a poor relation.

  31. The philanthropist was chilled; he fixed his eyes in a stony stare on the opposite wall.

  32. The philanthropist is made the victim of the most cruel kind of vivisection,--a character-study.

  33. The minute the philanthropist is introduced, the author begins to show his own cleverness by discovering flaws in his motives.

  34. He had known before he wrote, what to expect, for announcements had come from Grantville, that the philanthropist would not extend the time on his gifts for this purpose.

  35. It may be said that nobody but a philanthropist would sell property in this way.

  36. I remember hearing that one young reprobate, son of a leading Northern philanthropist in those parts, was much aggrieved at being taken to the lock-up merely because he was found drunk in the streets.

  37. They were unarmed, and all looked as thoroughly black as the most faithful philanthropist could desire; there did not seem to be so much as a mulatto among them.

  38. Under a more liberal system, the physician and the philanthropist could combine their efforts.

  39. No statesman would grapple with a political question until he knew its "form and pressure;" no philanthropist can satisfactorily encounter an unknown misery.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philanthropist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    angel; backer; contributor; donor; giver; grantor; humanitarian; patron; philanthropist; settler; subscriber; supporter; testator