benignance

In place of the passion of youth and all youth's mad revolt, was the benignance of wisdom.

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He appeared to have laid aside his rancour, and his handsome olive countenance was lightened with an expression of great benignance when he presented me to the Governor as -- "_the honourable and distinguished señorita Doña Margarita de Tudor_."

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

The uncle beamed upon Eulalie with fatherly benignance, and then established friendly communication with Elvira.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

Had they both been standing the gesture would have been impossible to Dr Drummond with dignity; as it was, it had not only that, but benignance, a kind of tender good will, rare in expression with the minister, rare, for that matter, in feeling with him too, though the chord was always there to be sounded.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

This line of argument might perhaps have been powerful if adopted earlier, but by that time the agreeable vision of Bleak's ascetic features wreathed in a faintly spiritual benignance was already firmly fixed in the public imagination.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

As the frenzy of cheering died away, Quimbleton's face took on the glow of simple benignance that Bleak had first observed at the time of the julep incident in the Balloon office.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

In the douce benignance of equinoctial sunshine we gaze about us with eyes of inventory.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

In place of the passion of youth and all youth's mad revolt, was the benignance of wisdom.

Chapter 18 1913

Ben Nazir smiled like a prince out of a picture-book -- beautiful white teeth and exquisite benignance.

Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

Pride seemed in some strange way to hallow her, to give an unimagined benignance to her eyes, an unearthly brightness to the smile upon her lips and the colour upon her cheeks.

The Four Feathers 1906