benignities

Shuttleworth used to be when he came home for the holidays and she patted his head and uttered benignities -- and having thanked, apparently forgot him till the next time she wanted anything.

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Perhaps it was well for him that his ignorant faith could accept the illusion as a vision charged with all the benignities of peace on earth, good-will toward men.

'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The calm, still, yellow sunshine day by day suffused the land like the benignities of a dream -- almost too good to be true.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Many of the people shook hands with me at the door, and the bald old gentleman led me to his wife and daughter, whose benignities were almost parental.

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877

There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.

Following the Equator, Part 3 Mark Twain 1872

There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

The inherent weakness of all such versions of the gospel is, that they look to see it operate by mere benignities — something is either to be shown or done, that is good enough to win the world.

The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871

Too grateful we cannot be that he remained with us so long, that for more than a quarter of a century our city has had the light of that saintly presence, pouring its benignities into all eyes, shedding the dawn of worthier ambitions, some touch of nobler aspirations and better resolve into every heart.

Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 No Author 1871

Do we grow old that, in our weakness and loss of physical self-assertion, we may learn the benignities of the universe -- only to be learned first through the feeling of their want?

Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864

Nothing can ever lift the picture till a subject nature appears, milder, truer, and closer to the type of God's own dear submissions in the cross of his Son; allowing us to bless our sight in the beholding of so many women by graces and benignities of self-forgetting love. "

THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869