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  • "In the name of Allah most beneficent, most merciful," the old fortune-teller whispers.†  (source)
  • They laugh to one another and seem touched underneath their helmets with a beneficent gold.†  (source)
  • 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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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As I was reintroduced to her, she sipped at her little bottle of dark brownish-red liquid and smiled beneficently.†  (source)
  • Louis Sullivan was equally obsessed by the beneficent idea of Democratic power.†  (source)
  • It seemed to rise with the turbulent brown river swollen by the April rains, and in the evenings lay across the blacked-out city like a mental dusk which the whole country could sense, a quiet and malign thickening, inseparable from the cool late spring, well concealed within its spreading beneficence.†  (source)
  • On either side the fields were beneficently tranquil; the space through which the cavalcade moved was high and limitless.†  (source)
  • How beneficent these Fremen to bring her into the fold of such companionship.†  (source)
  • However, the last seven years have been years of droughtless beneficence.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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