benigner

She turned to me with benigner rays — You have my love!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But the expansion of the benigner feelings incident to opium is no febrile access, but a healthy restoration to that state which the mind would naturally recover upon the removal of any deep-seated irritation of pain that had disturbed and quarrelled with the impulses of a heart originally just and good.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

But he had saner moments -- moments when his better nature triumphed, and pride resigned for a brief space her stormy empire to the benigner sway of the contending passion.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

But the expansion of the benigner feelings, incident to opium, is no febrile access, but a healthy restoration to that state which the mind would naturally recover upon the removal of any deep-seated irritation of pain that had disturbed and quarrelled with the impulse of a heart originally just and good.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

But there the Squire, falling into the department, and under the benigner influence of his Harry, was as yet not properly hardened.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

But he has performed as have few, if any, in offices similar to his the larger, benigner functions of an Ambassador.

Inversion. 1908

Immediately you pass the great doorway, studded with great nails, you pass out of the garishness of the merely modern day, unhallowed by any associations, into a calmer and benigner day, over which floats some shadow of the great past.

Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

His Christ was not primarily the bleeding, the scourged, the crucified, but rather a benigner and lovelier Phoebus

Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

Glendower, who saw on earth nothing before them but a jail, from which as yet they had been miraculously delivered, repined not as he beheld her approach to a gentler and benigner home.

The Disowned — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But there the squire, falling into the department and under the benigner influence of his Harry, was as yet not properly hardened.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838