The licencee knew all his customers by name, and he leaned over his bar smiling
benignly at two young men who were throwing rings on a stick that stood up from the floor: their failure was greeted with a good deal of hearty chaff from the rest of the company.
He leaned over his spade and smiled
benignly at his visitor.
'Certainly, my boy; certainly,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat: smiling
benignly, and patting Noah's head, which was about three inches higher than his own.
"Go on, go on!" added Winkle and Tupman, while the President bowed
benignly.
Rachel never looked so truly and
benignly happy as at the head of her table.
The gentleman with a helmet there, who regards us so
benignly, will presently earn a shilling by calling me a hansom.
She is almost a child herself, and the little pink round things will hang about her like florets round the central flower; and the husband will look on, smiling
benignly, able, whenever he chooses, to withdraw into the sanctuary of his wisdom, towards which his sweet wife will look reverently, and never lift the curtain.
It was no riddle to her, as it had been to her niece earlier in the evening, why the same hard work had dealt so
benignly with Martin and so uncharitably with herself.
Fortunately one of the little old ladies, who for some time had been smiling very
benignly, now approached and asked if she might be allowed to sit where Mr.
Pickwick's, he unbent, relaxed, stepped down from his pedestal, and walked upon the ground,
benignly adapting his remarks to the comprehension of the herd, and seeming in outward form, if not in spirit, to be one of them.
I found Renfield sitting placidly in his room with his hands folded, smiling
benignly. At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever saw.
"Yes," I went on, "we do, indeed"; and again I smiled
benignly, as I uttered that amazing lie.