The murderer could inflict no injury, but would confer a benefit.

Pride ought above all things to be avoided when you confer a benefit.

I came to confer a benefit, not to perpetrate an injury.

And my life is nothing if in giving it I may confer a benefit.

This will be better for the archduke himself, and will confer a benefit on the Society.

I will now confer a benefit on him.

Forgive an intruder, Madam, and confer a benefit.

We have found ourselves treated, at every house, as if we came to confer a benefit.

State laws enable the creation of corporations because they are thought to confer a benefit on society.

We recommend it to our readers; and they will confer a benefit on their new-married patients by recommending it to them.

There is no better aid to life than a certain knowledge that our demise would confer a benefit on some fellow-creature.

How could the Senate confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing their right of negative upon his nominations?

I might permit my fellow-citizens to confer a benefit on me-becauseI should hope some day to make them an adequate return.

You have it in your power to help confer a benefit, and I mean to work until I get your consent to the scheme.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

A man does not save your life who does not kill you; nor does he confer a benefit, but merely gives you your discharge.