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Meanings of unknown benefactor in English

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Usage of unknown benefactor in English
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But Miss Phillips refused to reveal the name of their unknown benefactor.
The Girl Scouts' Good Turn
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At the end of that time the unknown benefactor stumps up your share.
What's Bred in the Bone
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Unless, he thought, their unknown benefactor was still closing down monitors for them.
Dayworld Breakup
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The girl's eyes filled with tears as she attempted to thank her unknown benefactor.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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He had planned, while standing with his unknown benefactor, that he would go into some store and wait.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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You are probably correct, yet on the other hand, what proof have you that Mr. Clay is your unknown benefactor?
Idle Hour Stories
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The unknown benefactor won't mind whether your money's at your banker's, or employed for the time being in paying your debts.
What's Bred in the Bone
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He must needs even stop at the corner of the wharf, and show her the exact spot where his unknown benefactor appeared.
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
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He became the unknown benefactor of a family for some period of time by doing the hard work of the household while they slept.
Mrs. Shelley
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On the other hand, Guy didn't disguise from himself the strong probability that the unknown benefactor might now refuse to pay in the six thousand.
What's Bred in the Bone
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.Pray reinstate me in the good graces of my unknown benefactor among you.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
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The money was sent "from the boys." Thorpe later read a heart-broken letter of thanks to the unknown benefactors.
The Blazed Trail
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'Do let's, if we can,' Noel said, 'and the bargees will bless the names of their unknown benefactors.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
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"Captain Harding," replied Ayrton, "I think that we ought to do everything to discover this unknown benefactor.
The Mysterious Island
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And he is also in search of his unknown benefactors; he will grieve himself to death if you do not help him to discover them.
The Brotherhood of Consolation
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"Well, gentlemen," the colonel said, "before we begin to eat, we will drink the health of our unknown benefactor.
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
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