So, like the lifting of a thunder cloud, Tommy's very unwonted fit of temper merged into a mood of great benignity and Ralston complained no more.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Ancient writers of many ages are lost in admiration of the mingled majesty and benignity which the divine effigy expressed.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
He was proceeding, when, breakfast being ready, in came the empress of my heart, irradiating all around her, as with a glory-a benignity and graciousness in her aspect, that, though natural to it, had been long banished from it.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson