benefactions

One of his benefactions was the establishment of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa.

Methodist Adventures in Negro Education Jay Samuel 1922

Notable among their benefactions was the donation to the church of the block of ground in the heart of the city on which St. Anthony's church was built.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

One of his benefactions was a standing source of merriment to the villagers.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

He got the fisheries, but he spent his profits freely, and one of the first of his benefactions was the construction of

Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate 1879

'benefactions' which supported the mission of Brainerd, the most successful of modern days.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

And if I die to-morrow, not alone will the lawyers contest my disposition of my property, but they will contest my benefactions and my pensions accorded, and the clarity of my mind.

SHIN-BONES 2010

Again and again I thanked God on my knees for these various and many benefactions.

Chapter 19 2010

Again and again I thanked God on my knees for these various and many benefactions.

Chapter 19 2010

One of the great benefactions of Jazz at Lincoln Center is the regular opportunity to hear 93-year-old composer-arranger-bandleader Gerald Wilson.

Dizzy's Welcomes an Old Friend Will Friedwald 2011

Their preference is for it to remain intact in a public institution—a transfer that would echo the benefactions of the great Gilded Age collectors.

Collecting as a Fine Art Jonathan Lopez 2011