"Benignantly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contemplation, as if he were thinking of the new tulip bulbs he had imported from Holland for his house up the Hudson. He was not aroused even when one of his fellow-counsel asked him a question. He merely removed his glasses, wiped them reflectively, and nodded to his colleague benignantly. He knew, as the others knew, that the case would be appealed from the verdict of the jury to a higher court, and very likely would turn up ultimately in the highest court of all at Washington, where after the lapse of several years the question at issue would be argued wholly on technicalities, ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... the doctor, who was there, and he smiled upon them so benignantly that they could not ...
— The Bobbin Boy - or, How Nat Got His learning • William M. Thayer
... intention of discovering myself, but as my friend here has betrayed my secret, I confess that I am a bard of Anglesey—my friend is an excellent individual but indiscreet, highly indiscreet, as I have frequently told him," and here he looked most benignantly reproachful at him ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... valise and plunging in one greedy hand, "will—just—about—do for mine!" With which he produced the article mentioned. "This for the discard, Cap'n," he laughed contentedly, pushing the girl's valise aside; and, rumbling with stentorian mirth, stood beaming benignantly ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance
... look a bit like a policeman. So she smiled upon him, and listened benignantly to his tale. He had been passing the house—musing upon his business—that of a broker—and trying to guess at the truth of a report relative to certain investments, when suddenly his calculations had been put to flight by the arrival of some unseen object from on high, ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... looked over her shoulder with a smile that, making longitudinal folds on his face, caused it to resemble a leathern mask with a benignantly diabolic expression. ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... piece of cake and a full glass of wine, and wished us joy. He was fast passing away, and with him the old-class ministers, now only traditional, who drank their half-mug of flip at funerals, went to balls to look benignantly on the scene of pleasure, came home at ten o'clock to write "the improvement" to their Sunday's sermon, took the other half-mug, and went to bed peaceably and in charity with the whole parish. They have gone, with ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 • Various
... Major smiled benignantly when he reached his appointed room in the magnificent Hotel del Coronado, which is famed ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne
... legislative branch. Their smug and genial tone formed a sharp contrast with his predecessor's anxious demands for multifarious reforms; while Cleveland inveighed against narrow partisanship and selfish aims, McKinley benignantly observed: "The public questions which now most engross us are lifted far above either partisanship, prejudice, or ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley |
