Meanings of benignant face in English

He had a benignant face, his manner was easy and polite.

She prays before the benignant face of the Blessed Virgin for her warrior husband.

He sat his horse and listened with a benignant face.

The honest and benignant face of the old Doctor showed that he was a little nettled.

His benignant face encouraged me to address him.

Her benignant face is a benediction.

I could not remember the time when her fat, benignant face was not a familiar picture in my memory.

Smith could not tell, since he never moved, only stood there, splendid and fearful, his calm, benignant face staring into nothingness.

There was hardly an alley from which one could not glimpse the stern yet benignant face with the glowing nimbus of blue light.

The Queen, his wife, knew this: it seemed to me, the reflection of her husband's grief lay, a subduing shadow, on her own benignant face.

His well-developed, finely-proportioned, firmly-knit frame; his broad, lofty brow; his keen, penetrating eye, and his genial, benignant face, all proclaimed him every inch a man.

These paintings of the Saints upon the walls Have all familiar and benignant faces.