"You see I have brought him back safe after all," said the major, benignantly smiling.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
"Don't you know," said Miss Monflathers, "that it's very naughty and unfeminine, and a perversion of the properties wisely and benignantly transmitted to us, with expansive powers to be roused from their dormant state through the medium of cultivation?"
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Little Virginia at her side waved an inch or two of white also, while the smiling ranchman stood over them benignantly, protectingly, one hand on his wife's shoulder to keep her from falling over the rail.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick