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    How beneficent these Fremen to bring her into the fold of such companionship.†  (source)
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    Year after year they provided a lead story, complete with a portrait of the crowned and comely maiden, candids of picnicking families ("The Maltons of Protection Point enjoy Saturday's strawberry festival"), and a beneficent editorial or boilerplate column approving the efforts of local organizers ("...Ed Bailey, Lois Dunkirk, and Carl Heine, Sr., without whom none of this would have been possible ...").†  (source)
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    Especially now, in this dark moment, we look to your beacon from our troubled waters and count on your beneficent protection and wise counsel until we should breathe the very last breath of our own existence.†  (source)
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    Excited by everyone's shouting, hundreds of naked children plunged into the water, jumping out of windows, jumping from the roofs of the houses and from the canoes that they handled with astonishing skill, and diving like shad to recover the bundles of clothing, the bottles of cough syrup, the beneficent food that the beautiful lady with the feathered hat threw to them from the basket of the balloon.†  (source)
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    Though Hobie himself, in his foggy beneficence, didn't appear to mind me at his house, Mr. Bracegirdle clearly viewed it as a temporary arrangement and both he and my counselor at school had taken great pains to explain that though the dormitories at my college were reserved for older students, something could be worked out in my case.†  (source)
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    As I was reintroduced to her, she sipped at her little bottle of dark brownish-red liquid and smiled beneficently.†  (source)
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    Men who never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order obeyed; men who took their position for granted; men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water—so utterly at home as to be unaware either of themselves or of the beneficent and comfortable element in which they had their being.†  (source)
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    Also, he owed a debt of gratitude to Lee Adler, whose support and beneficence had helped put him in office—and whose long-running feud with Jim Williams was well known.†  (source)
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    On either side the fields were beneficently tranquil; the space through which the cavalcade moved was high and limitless.†  (source)
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    I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.†  (source)
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    —My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right honorable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavor to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.†  (source)
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    Soothingly, like the gentle rustling of the leaves; and genially, like the ripening weather; and radiantly and beneficently, like the sunshine, he went on.†  (source)
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    you think me, I daresay, an irreligious dog: but my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now.†  (source)
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