| 1. | I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 2. | And who benevolent for I would show more benevolence than all the rest. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | The little man shifted his benevolent glance to the excited young American. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and benevolent of them. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | All that concerns us is the result of Miss Bangle's benevolent designs upon his heart. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | It was right to do it, it was kind to do it, it was benevolent to do it, and he would do it again.'. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |