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Meanings of very benevolent in English

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Usage of very benevolent in English
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Criminal.-But ,mayit please your honor, I was a very benevolent man.
The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Ill...
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Mr. Peter Van Ness was a very wealthy elderly gentleman, very benevolent.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
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The friend in question was an old gentleman, and a very benevolent one.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing; or, Some Passages in the Life of an ...
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The very rich are very benevolent here, and the consequences of wealth are happiness.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
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A very benevolent old gentleman who sympathized with everybody concerned made a little speech:
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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Scales? he said, in a very quiet, very benevolent voice.
The Old Wives' Tale
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So evidently there is nothing very benevolent in laughter.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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And, to do her justice, Jenny was a very benevolent, as well as capable, despot.
None Other Gods
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I remember, too, of having experienced the very benevolent wish that he would break his neck!
Homestead on the Hillside
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He was a very benevolent prince, liberal in politics, patriotic in feeling, and much beloved by the country.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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Mr. Backus is a very benevolent and liberal man, also, but his generosity is not in the beaten track.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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A short time previous to 1839 the Church Mission had undertaken a very benevolent and a very difficult work.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
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He chose to follow and skated rapidly after Calvert with no very benevolent look on his handsome, dissipated face.
Calvert of Strathore
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But it is safe to say that those who furnished them were in no very benevolent frame of mind at the time.
The Leading Facts of English History
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A great man must be very benevolent and humble to condescend to instruct the poor classes in raising potatoes and making hasty-pudding.
The Bobbin Boy; or, How Nat Got His learning
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These slumbers, lapped in Champagne and Chartreuse, had soothed and calmed him, no doubt, for he awoke in a very benevolent frame of mind.
Pierre and Jean
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