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With the benignest pity he strove to revive her; a pity unabated by any wonder, unalloyed with any blame.

Camilla 2008

Nature must have been fraudulently obstructed in the benignest arrangements she ever made for removing the effete material of a vast city's vital processes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

As the Baron for the first time in his life now saw one of those pieces, with which he had already graced a private theatre, put into the hands of real actors, and in the fair way for a decent exhibition, he showed the benignest humour in the world.

Chapter IX. Book III 1917

It would have gone ill then with the minister, had not as sudden a change followed; the very same instant, it was as if an invisible veil, woven of gracious air and odour and dew, had descended upon him; the flame of his wrath went out, quenched utterly; a smile of benignest compassion overspread his countenance; in his offender he saw only a brother.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

Ever since the controversy with Dr. Lloyd, this lady had honoured me with her benignest countenance; and nothing could be more adroit than the manner in which, while imposing me on others as an oracular authority, she sought to subject to her will the oracle itself.

A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Ever since the controversy with Dr. Lloyd, this lady had honoured me with her benignest countenance; and nothing could be more adroit than the manner in which, while imposing me on others as an oracular authority, she sought to subject to her will the oracle itself.

A Strange Story — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

With the benignest pity he strove to revive her; a pity unabated by any wonder, unalloyed with any blame.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Now, to thee, and to thy before-designed _bosom_-companion, be given the precious things brought forth by the sun, and the precious things brought forth by the moon, and the benignest influences of the stars, and the living streams which flow from the fountains of life, and by the tree of life, for ever and ever!

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Turn, joyful turn, from warring Man To think on thee, benignest Anne!

Watlington Hill; a poem Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 1812