Benefactress

Examples

• And now tell me who is the lady whom Mr. Brocklehurst called your benefactress? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But the dear child,' said Lammle, with a crooked smile, 'ought to have been open with her benefactor and benefactress. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Claims even superior to those of my benefactress call me hence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• SHE warn't, sir,' said Sloppy, taking this ghostly counsel rather ill, in behalf of his late benefactress. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Dearest Miss Briggs, break the news as your delicate sympathy will know how to do it--to my dear, my beloved friend and benefactress. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But Higg, the son of Snell, felt most deeply the effect produced by the sight of the countenance of his benefactress. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Young, graceful, gracious--my benefactress, attached to me, enamoured of me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's son! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I hope that sigh is from the heart, and that you repent of ever having been the occasion of discomfort to your excellent benefactress. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The darling love ought to have reposed unbounded confidence in her benefactor and benefactress. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typist: Marvin