Example Sentences

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He will hold up to view the nature and extent of the requirements He made of us, their reasonableness and beneficialness we shall all acknowledge. 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

Suppose, now, we made the willingness of a parent to give up his or her children the measure of his beneficialness to them.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)