Benefactors
[benɪfæktəz]
Examples
- Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If the tallow candle, hitherto unknown, were now invented, its creator would be hailed as one of the greatest benefactors of the present age. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The circumstance occasioned no alteration, however, in the behaviour of his benefactors. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- O my benefactors! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I felt ashamed to appear before my benefactors so clad. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The owners of such places as Chesney Wold, said Mr. Skimpole with his usual happy and easy air, are public benefactors. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Xenia