Example Sentences

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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

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

Under their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate miscarry—for in his last thought he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine tracery of fate.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

Bathed in the benignancy of bland Indian summer, Cap'n Sproul and his friend Hiram Look surveyed these arrivals from the porch of the Sproul house.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

There was but one moon in all his heavens, a warm, friendly, almost mystic moon that rendered gentle and fine everything upon which it bestowed benignancy.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy