benevolent

• If Mr.C. 's nature had been less benevolent, and he had given full vent to the irascible and satirical, the restrained elements of which abounded in his spirit, he would have obtained the least enviable of all kinds of pre-eminence, and have become the undisputed modern Juvenal. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
• The opposing faction however experienced chaos as something benevolent, the necessary matrix out of which arises spontaneously an infinity of variegated forms-a pleroma rather than an abyss-a principle of continual creation, unstructured, fecund, beautiful, spirit of wildness. —  ncunuabula: Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa, Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds from Emory Cranston Part II
• The daily contributions of the benevolent are here disposed of; what one has, another lacks. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• There may have been, in those dim days when Lady Ferriby had played her part in the romantic story which all hinted at and none knew, another such as Tony Cornish--gay and debonair, careless, reckless, and yet endowed with the power of making some poor woman happy My dear aunt," replied Cornish, with a levity with which none other ever dared to treat her, "the benevolent are always greedy. —  Roden's Corner
• "My dear aunt," replied Cornish, with a levity with which none other ever dared to treat her, "the benevolent are always greedy. —  Roden's Corner

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