By this knowledge, together with his riches, his craft, his tact, his business ramifications as an international banker, his open-handedness and air of personal simplicity, Cosimo made himself a power.

The women seldomer do either; like women everywhere, they are less given both to sensual desire and to generous open-handedness....

He had none of the lavish open-handedness that made the fraternity welcome in so many ports.

By her open-handedness she makes her guests her own children; they learn of her.