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Look Homeward, Angel
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- Bacchus looked up benevolently from a whittled stick, and Will, glancing up from his stubby nails which he was paring as usual, greeted the visitor with a birdlike nod and wink.†
Chpt 1 *benevolently = with kindness or generosity
- And this desire of his was unquestionably enhanced by all he had read and visioned, by the romantic halo that his school history cast over the section, by the whole fantastic distortion of that period where people were said to live in "mansions," and slavery was a benevolent institution, conducted to a constant banjo-strumming, the strewn largesses of the colonel and the shuffle-dance of his happy dependents, where all women were pure, gentle, and beautiful, all men chivalrous and brave, and the Rebel horde a company of swagger, death-mocking cavaliers.†
Chpt 1benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- His visits morning and evening were briefer, his tongue more benevolent.†
Chpt 2
- His pale blue eyes blinked rapidly for a moment, his plump uncreased face set firmly in a smile of quiet benevolence; he covered himself with a small well-kept hat of black velvet, and set off toward the avenue.†
Chpt 2benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- On the other side of the street, attracting no more than a languid stare from the loafing natives, the Honorable William Jennings Bryan paused benevolently before the windows of the H. Martin Grimes Bookstore, allowing the frisking breeze to toy pleasantly with his famous locks.†
Chpt 2benevolently = with kindness or generosity
- The two close friends greeted each other affectionately, and, with a firm friendly laying on of hands, gave each to each the Christian aid of a benevolent exorcism.†
Chpt 2benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- A lifelong advocate of a union of the two great English-speaking (sic) nations, making together irresistibly for peace, truth, and righteousness in a benevolent but firm authority over the less responsible elements of civilization, he passed, the Catholic man, pleasantly dedicated to the brave adventuring of minds and the salvaging of mankind.†
Chpt 2
- Benevolently but distantly she smiled down upon him: the white parchment of his hard Polish face was broken by a grin of cruel servility curving up around the wings of his immense putty-colored nose.†
Chpt 2benevolently = with kindness or generosity
- An old negro came by, fringed benevolently by white whiskers.†
Chpt 2
- When thwarted or annoyed in any way, the heavy benevolence of her face was dislodged by a thunder-cloud of petulance, and her wide pouting underlip rolled out like a window-shade.†
Chpt 2benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- Well, thought they benevolently, we need some such.†
Chpt 3benevolently = with kindness or generosity
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)