All 11 Uses of
benevolent
in
Bleak House
- I could not help it; I tried very hard, but being alone with that benevolent presence, and meeting his kind eyes, and feeling so happy and so honoured there, and my heart so full— I kissed his hand.†
Chpt 7-9
- Among the ladies who were most distinguished for this rapacious benevolence (if I may use the expression) was a Mrs. Pardiggle, who seemed, as I judged from the number of her letters to Mr. Jarndyce, to be almost as powerful a correspondent as Mrs. Jellyby herself.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Jarndyce had fallen into this company in the tenderness of his heart and his earnest desire to do all the good in his power; but that he felt it to be too often an unsatisfactory company, where benevolence took spasmodic forms, where charity was assumed as a regular uniform by loud professors and speculators in cheap notoriety, vehement in profession, restless and vain in action, servile in the last degree of meanness to the great, adulatory of one another, and intolerable to those…†
Chpt 13-15
- This was the first time I ever saw him follow Ada with his eyes with something of a shadow on their benevolent expression.†
Chpt 16-18
- "I wish he had let it off," says the benevolent old man, "and blown his head into as many pieces as he owed pounds!"†
Chpt 19-21
- Mrs. Pardiggle being as clear that the only one infallible course was her course of pouncing upon the poor and applying benevolence to them like a strait-waistcoat; as Miss Wisk was that the only practical thing for the world was the emancipation of woman from the thraldom of her tyrant, man.†
Chpt 28-30
- With no worse aggravation of his symptoms, however, than the utterance of divers croaking sounds expressive of obstructed respiration, he fulils his share of the porterage and the benevolent old gentleman is deposited by his own desire in the parlour of the Sol's Arms.†
Chpt 31-33
- I could not help expressing something of my wonder and regret that his benevolent, disinterested intentions had prospered so little.†
Chpt 34-36
- I presume that you founded that belief upon your general knowledge of my being an orphan girl, indebted for everything to the benevolence of Mr. Jarndyce.
Chpt 37-39 *benevolence = kindness or generosity
- Through the beaming smile with which he regarded me as he reasoned thus, there now broke forth a look of disinterested benevolence quite astonishing.†
Chpt 61-63
- But I know that my dearest little pets are very pretty, and that my darling is very beautiful, and that my husband is very handsome, and that my guardian has the brightest and most benevolent face that ever was seen, and that they can very well do without much beauty in me—even supposing—.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable