With the tips of his long fingers held lightly together in front of him, and swaying slightly backward and forward upon the balls of his feet, he smiled benignly down upon the customer and the barber's assistant as if these witnesses were merely unfortunate in not being able to disclose to the jury all the facts.

He smiled benignly on her, and, still beaming, struck a not ungraceful attitude.

" He beamed benignly upon that convulsed countenance, and saw crestfallen Prince Victor slink away, to the music of smothered laughter from the ladies in the doorwaytoward which Lanyard was careful not to look.

Mr. Lorimer smiled benignly.

He vaguely remembered, too, that the Catholics had showed sometimes a certain hostility towards the little Protestant oasis that flourished so quietly and benignly in their midst.

Dressing-case and parcel were duly brought down into the grand vestibule, where the hotel servants smiled on them benignly.

The merchant shot a careless glance over the top of his paper, at the sound of this petit dialogue, and the old lady smiled benignly; the man in the corner neither looked nor smiled.

So benignly shall he regard thee, that in the matter of asking and receiving, the customary order of things shall be reversed between you two, and the gift anticipate the request.

"The fact that this gold was in Señor Rodriguez's possession could not have been known to more than half a dozen persons, as the negotiations throughout have been in strict secrecy," and Mr. Campbell smiled benignly.

The old gentleman in the red coat, his hand on his sword, looked on her benignly; and the lady playing the spinet smiled as sweetly as was her wont.

He smiled benignly upon Sadie Corn, and Sadie Corn had the bravery to smile back in spite of her neuralgia, knowing well that men have no sympathy with that anguishing ailment and no understanding of it.

"Let 'em peep," said Mr. Todd, benignly.

That's fair, isn't it?" He smiled benignly, and the soon-to-be reporter's wits went capering off in a hysterical stampede.

Was there no one of the bald or grizzly-haired gentlemen who smiled so benignly whom he could ask for aid?

"And though she hears her praises, she doth go Benignly clothèd with humility, And like a thing come down she seems to be From heaven to earth, a miracle to show.

And ah! how godlike, with imperial brow Benignly grave, yon patriarchal forms Tread the free earth, and eye the naked heavens!

He inclined his head benignly.

And fled the harmonizing cloud Which could that light benignly shroud, Soothing its radiance to our view, And melting each opposing hue, Till deepening tints and blendings meet Made contrast' self serene and sweet.

He merely smiled benignly upon Caput in an avuncular fashion.

"Gentlemen of the jury," said he benignly: "My client, Mr. Higgleby, is charged in this indictment with the crime of bigamy committed here in New York, in marrying Alvina Woodcockthe strong-minded lady on the front row of benches therewhen he already had a lawful wife living in Chicago.

She is seated in heavenly glory; the infant Christ, on her knee, bends benignly forward.

In the upper part of the composition sits the Virgin in heavenly glory; by her side the infant Christ, partly sustained by his mother's veil, which is drawn round his body: both look down benignly on the votary Sigismund Conti, who, kneeling below, gazes up with an expression of the most intense gratitude and devotion.

But the goddess of Fortune smiling benignly on this country-bred lad, had in a wayward mood apparently taken him under her special protection.

and Pipa, spite of warning, fairly shouts now "gone!" at which the cavaliere shakes his stick at her, smiling, however, benignly all the time.

Really, there is no end to his presumption;" and he smiled, benignly, upon him.