But the twilight would be long, he told himself, and in that other, beneficent inner twilight he worked on, packing the snow, and crawling gingerly up the perilous stair a half-inch at a time.

Calonne cheerfully received and executed the beneficent command.

The words 'opposition' and 'motions' are established here as in the English Parliament, with this difference, that in London, when people go into opposition, they begin by denuding themselves of the favors of the king; instead of which, here numbers oppose all the wise and beneficent views of the most virtuous of masters, and still keep all he has given them.

If this theory be true, the peripeteia was at first a change from sorrow to joyjoy in the rebirth of the beneficent powers of nature.

The ocean beamed gloriously that eventide, and I fancied that it was faintly reflecting the gracious countenance of its divine Creator, in a smile of beneficent love.

For in history great evils have sometimes arisen from a virtue, and most beneficent results have often followed hard upon a crime.

The chief of the Scientific Staff sets an example which is more potent than any other factor in maintaining that bond of good fellowship which is the marked and beneficent characteristic of our community.

He was fatuous, but beneficent; silly, but neither cruel nor corrupt.

They are archangels with awful brow and flaming sword, summoning and encouraging us to do the right and the divinely heroic, and we feel a beneficent tremor in their presence; but to learn what it is they summon us to do, we have to consider the mortals we are elbowing, who are of our own stature and our own appetites....

It was the boast of Sydney Smith in old age that he had very little to change in the opinions which he had at various times advanced,that he had seen every important measure which he had advocated passed and become recognized as beneficent.

It was destiny that turned Emily back to Haworth from the destruction that waited for her at Brussels, so that she conceived and brought forth Wuthering Heights; her own destiny that she secretly foreknew, consoling and beneficent.

With a power excessive and unlimited, and surpassing what has hitherto been possessed by any Sovereign, it would be difficult to prove that these democratic despots have effected any thing either useful or beneficent.

The king's beneficent countenance, his friendly smile, his hearty and cordial manner, dispelled all doubt of his sincerity in Hortense's mind.

By this means the beneficent Spirit works in a Man from the Convictions of Reason, not from the Impulses of Passion.

No social development of the modern period is more striking than the swift multiplication of women's clubs, not in this country alone, but in others, and they have shown a power of beneficent work most advantageous to the community at large, which even the most sanguine among their promoters could not have anticipated.

# So beneficent is insurance that the enormous cost of transacting the business under present methods is much to be regretted.

We ourselves are witnesses that the Union emerged from the blood and fire of that conflict purified and made stronger for all the beneficent purposes of good government.

No thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people.

In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown.

With the emancipation of the towns, however, with the splendid development of the Italian republics, with the noble commercial triumphs of the cities of the Hansa, credit was recovered from the hands of the Jews, and began a career of rapid and beneficent expansion.

Thus the Church grew truly eloquent, the beneficent mother of the oppressed, the eternal menace of oppressors and despots.

He did not affirm the revolting conception of original sin, nor did he feel inclined to argue that it is a beneficent God who protects the worthless and wicked, rains misfortunes on children, stultifies the aged and afflicts the innocent.

Alfred Townsend, speaking of the misfortunes that have attended the other governments on this continent (New World and Old, p. 635), says: "The history of the United States was separated by a beneficent Providence far from this wild and cruel history of the rest of the continent.

This is the beneficent result of the age of the machine.

Last of all is the Church Beneficent or Constructant.