1 My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.
2 Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.
3 Your father's health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be assured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent countenance.
4 During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures.
5 I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.
6 I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
7 The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
8 They performed towards him every little office of affection and duty with gentleness, and he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles.
9 I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man with calm and mild manners.
10 The Doctor nodded his benevolent head.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS 11 It was a set made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, learned, and ambitious men.
12 Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
13 This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and benevolent of them.
14 Certain it was that he gave her unlimited scope in all her benevolent efforts for the comfort, instruction, and improvement of her servants, though he never took any decided part in them himself.
15 "Pity, now, Tom couldn't," said Aunt Chloe, on whose benevolent heart the idea of Tom's benighted condition seemed to make a strong impression.