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How to use benefactress in a sentence

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They may never through life hear her name, but she is not the less their benefactress.
There he found his benefactress, the Baronne de Warens, who gave him the education that turned him into a philosopher.
A woman of intelligence and learning, she was a benefactress of the Queen's College, Oxford.
Their benefactress stood before them, still twisting at her apron, and she talked.
Read about the Saurian Expedition of 1905 on which UCMP benefactress Annie Alexander collected many ichthyosaurs.
For Symphony No 4 Tchaikovsky produced his own programme to satisfy the curiosity of his invisible benefactress, Mme von Meck.
As a new kind of benefactress, she designs simple but elegant clothing for the working class.
And yet, as Bliss notes, no one even suggested naming the medical school after its benefactress, in spite of her spectacular gift.
Eight years of toiling for the attentions of some noble benefactress and eight years of writing stories.
Her heart was buried in the Abbey of Jumièges of which she was the benefactress.
All conditions are met to offer a break in a benefactress is good or much of the year.
Another important ally gained at this period was Harriet Shaw Weaver, business manager and then editor of the Egoist, and a lifelong benefactress of Joyce.
The program was organized in honor of a local benefactress of the arts, who was interested in harpsichord performance and gave money to other arts interests, too.
I think of one whom the poor of a great city know as their benefactress and friend.
In Furth there has been a long tradition of beer brewing and the brothers worked in the footsteps of the great benefactress of the German Marists, Lady Baroness of Hornstein, who commissioned the brothers with the brewery.
Let yourself be dazzled by the storytellers at Djemaa El-Fna square in Marrakech and the tale of the « gazelle with eyes of gold », a benefactress who grants everyone's wishes.
All his life she will remain his benefactress.
By the time she signed that affidavit, she had become, for some, a glitzed-out benefactress, offering advice and gifts in equal measure to the less fortunate.
Couchant on a high-backed settee, the slender, dark-haired benefactress looks surprisingly contemporary, with her direct gaze, bright-red lipstick, and green silk lounging pajamas.
In 1753 a benefactress provided the allowance needed for the upkeep of a Brother destined to teach Drawing in the principal school in the parish of Saint Sulpice.
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Who is our benefactress in the authorship of these books, the world knows not.
In vain he reminded her that Brannan was her own cousin, the only son of her aunt and benefactress.
Say that again, kind, dear benefactress, and you will make me the happiest girl in the world.
As soon as they arrive, inkle goes and sells his benefactress in the slave market.
I rejoiced for my benefactress, I rejoiced for the tender and affectionate Edith.
How starlike were the eyes that turned toward the beloved friend and benefactress.
Your criticisms, my honoured benefactress, are truly the work of a friend.
I hope that sigh is from the heart, and that you repent of ever having been the occasion of discomfort to your excellent benefactress.
I would rather have remained a monkey all my life than let my benefactress perish in this shocking manner.
Of this benefactress of lud Gate, Maitland has the following legend.
If his benefactress wanted intellectual conversation, she must have it.
Ask how I can feel other than gratitude and devotion to my benefactress.
Her benefactress left her, at her death, a legacy of 8,000 dollars.
However, what troubled him most was the idea of having to meet the Frog who had been his benefactress.
Soon, arrayed in a cloak, bonnet, and shawl, that had belonged to her benefactress, she appeared at the door with her child in her arms.
Yet he said it with so much meaning, too, that I felt he as perfectly understood Miss Havisham to be my benefactress, as I understood the fact myself.
Five minutes later, Raoul was ushered into an ill-lit room where he at once recognized the good, kind face of Christine's benefactress in the semi-darkness of an alcove.
She took Miss Jones to the robing-room, and soon brought her back in regulation trim, and then we entered the ballroom with this benefactress unchallenged.
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