Example Sentences

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The venerable holy men on either side have all Bellini's suave benignancy and incapacity for sin: celestial grandfathers.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry

She gazed upon the two silent men with an expression that united benignancy with profound inquietude and sadness.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

When I had ended he was looking at me with a benignancy that I had never seen before upon his face.

From Jacqueline of Golden River by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

He regarded Gaspard the smith with real benignancy.

From The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium by Abdullah, Achmed

He had to perfection that reserve, that kind benignancy that a Beaminster ought to have; whenever Lady Adela questioned the foundations upon which the stability of her life depended he reassured her.

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Walpole, Hugh, Sir