All 31 Uses of
benefactor
in
War and Peace
- "I have never yet asked you for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my father's friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God's sake to do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor," she added hurriedly.†
Chpt 1
- My dear benefactor!†
Chpt 1 *
- My dear benefactor….†
Chpt 1
- She and Michael Ivanovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both.†
Chpt 1
- "I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at the same time, my honored benefactor," wrote Prince Vasili.†
Chpt 3
- "I go by myself, benefactor," said Ivanushka, trying to speak in a bass voice.†
Chpt 5
- He is kind, he is one of God's chosen, he's a benefactor, he once gave me ten rubles, I remember.†
Chpt 5
- This is what he noted in his diary: Moscow, 17th November I have just returned from my benefactor, and hasten to write down what I have experienced.†
Chpt 6
- My benefactor then explained to me fully the meaning of the Great Square of creation and pointed out to me that the numbers three and seven are the basis of everything.†
Chpt 6
- Had my benefactor been here he would have told me what to do.†
Chpt 6
- I began to criticize them, but remembered my rules and my benefactor's words—that a true Freemason should be a zealous worker for the state when his aid is required and a quiet onlooker when not called on to assist.†
Chpt 6
- That day I received a letter from my benefactor in which he wrote about "conjugal duties."†
Chpt 6
- The kindhearted countess was the more vexed with Sonya because that poor, dark-eyed niece of hers was so meek, so kind, so devotedly grateful to her benefactors, and so faithfully, unchangingly, and unselfishly in love with Nicholas, that there were no grounds for finding fault with her.†
Chpt 7
- She was ready to sacrifice everything for her benefactors.†
Chpt 7
- Firmly convinced as he was of the truths revealed to him by his benefactor, and happy as he had been in perfecting his inner man, to which he had devoted himself with such ardor—all the zest of such a life vanished after the engagement of Andrew and Natasha and the death of Joseph Alexeevich, the news of which reached him almost at the same time.†
Chpt 8
- This is painful, but, loving my benefactor and sovereign, I submit.†
Chpt 10
- Benefactor!†
Chpt 10
- "On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine," said Pierre in the bantering tone he habitually adopted toward her, always feeling uncomfortable in the role of her benefactor.†
Chpt 10
- And the memory of the dinner at the English Club when he had challenged Dolokhov flashed through Pierre's mind, and then he remembered his benefactor at Torzhok.†
Chpt 11
- It is my benefactor.†
Chpt 11
- …table sat Anatole, Dolokhov, Nesvitski, Denisov, and others like them (in his dream the category to which these men belonged was as clearly defined in his mind as the category of those he termed they), and he heard those people, Anatole and Dolokhov, shouting and singing loudly; yet through their shouting the voice of his benefactor was heard speaking all the time and the sound of his words was as weighty and uninterrupted as the booming on the battlefield, but pleasant and comforting.†
Chpt 11
- Pierre did not understand what his benefactor was saying, but he knew (the categories of thoughts were also quite distinct in his dream) that he was talking of goodness and the possibility of being what they were.†
Chpt 11
- And they with their simple, kind, firm faces surrounded his benefactor on all sides.†
Chpt 11
- I want to hear and understand my benefactor's words."†
Chpt 11
- Again he covered himself up with his cloak, but now neither the lodge nor his benefactor was there.†
Chpt 11
- For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdeev.†
Chpt 11
- Pierre went into that gloomy study which he had entered with such trepidation in his benefactor's lifetime.†
Chpt 11
- All the rest of that day Pierre spent alone in his benefactor's study, and Gerasim heard him pacing restlessly from one corner to another and talking to himself.†
Chpt 11
- My benefactor, set my heart at ease….†
Chpt 11
- And for the first time she felt bitterness against those who had been her benefactors only to torture her the more painfully; she felt jealous of Natasha who had never experienced anything of this sort, had never needed to sacrifice herself, but made others sacrifice themselves for her and yet was beloved by everybody.†
Chpt 12
- In the next room sat the count and countess respectfully conversing with the prior, who was calling on them as old acquaintances and benefactors of the monastery.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(benefactor) someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially