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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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    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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    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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    I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.†  (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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    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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    Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.†  (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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    'Ah, certainly — I see now: you are the favoured possessor of the beneficent fairy,' I remarked, turning to my neighbour.†  (source)
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