All 11 Uses of
benevolent
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- There was more than benevolence in this action; there was courage; the south was aflame, and to assist, even on his death-bed, the father of so dangerous a Bonapartist as Dantes, was stigmatized as a crime.†
Chpt 13-14
- And then it was that, won by his mild charity, seeing that he was acquainted with all the habits and customs of my own country, and considering also that pardon for the only crime of which I was really guilty might come with a double power from lips so benevolent and kind, I besought him to receive my confession, under the seal of which I recounted the Auteuil affair in all its details, as well as every other transaction of my life.†
Chpt 45-46
- It was, your excellency; the benevolent abbe took an evident interest in all that concerned me.†
Chpt 45-46
- "Monsieur," returned Maximilian, raising the glass cover, and respectfully kissing the silken purse, "this has touched the hand of a man who saved my father from suicide, us from ruin, and our name from shame and disgrace,—a man by whose matchless benevolence we poor children, doomed to want and wretchedness, can at present hear every one envying our happy lot.†
Chpt 49-50
- "Calm yourself, my friend," said the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent, and which now expressed only the kindliest feeling; "I am not an inspector, but a traveller, brought here by a curiosity he half repents of, since he causes you to lose your time."†
Chpt 61-62
- "However"— "My resolution, sir, is unchangeable, but you have only to search for yourself and you will find, alas, but too many objects upon whom to exercise your benevolence."†
Chpt 69-70
- Beauchamp looked at Albert with a benevolent expression.†
Chpt 77-78
- Noirtier acknowledged by a look of extreme kindness and benevolence the thanks which Morrel lavished on him for his timely intervention on behalf of Valentine and himself—an intervention which had saved them from despair.†
Chpt 79-80
- "Well," cried he, with that benevolent politeness which distinguished his salutation from the common civilities of the world, "my cavalier has attained his object.†
Chpt 87-88
- "Are all your family well?" asked the count, with an affectionate benevolence, whose sincerity no one could for a moment doubt.†
Chpt 93-94
- Then it appeared to him that Monte Cristo smiled... with the benevolent kindness of a father for a child.
Chpt 117 *benevolent = kind or generous
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable