| 1. | Brocklehurst, but beneficial to the institution. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | To seek thy help by beneficial hap. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | worked by the god--a custom undoubtedly productive of most beneficial results. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 6. | In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 7. | god of all mechanical arts, but also as a house and hearth divinity, who exercised a beneficial influence on civilized society in general. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 8. | "It should be very beneficial to a man in your practice at the bar, to be ashamed of anything," returned Sydney "you ought to be much obliged to me.. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. - from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift |