Use benefit in a sentence
Sentences starting with benefit
- Benefit of Valerian, Tuesday, 29th, if he lives. [5]
Sentences ending with benefit
- We trust our young friend will take these remarks in good part, for we mean them solely for his benefit. [5]
- Has he done you or yours any great benefit? [10]
- All the rest were cases of grave disease; and so far as the trial, which was interrupted about the fortieth day, extended, the patients grew worse, or received no benefit. [3]
- And how can we remain the Sages and continue to develop and absorb all learning within the shelter of our temples, not only without endangering the weak, but for their benefit? [10]
- When the palace was completed to Dion's satisfaction and became one of the most lauded ornaments of the city, the young men's friendship assumed a new form, and it would have been difficult to say which received the most benefit. [10]
- She got it, tried the tincture, and saw and felt an immediate benefit. [11]
- She herself appealed to the world's judgment for her use of some of the faculties she had,--not the best,--but still the only ones she could turn to strangers' benefit. [14]
- Well, I went to Piccadilly, and give him the benefit. [11]
- It was true that O'Ryan now would be a rich man--one of the richest in the West, unless all signs failed; but meanwhile a union of fortunes would only be an added benefit. [11]
- Harry left in such a hurry that he hadn't even time to bid Miss Laura Hawkins good-bye, but he had no doubt that Harry would console himself with the next pretty face he saw --a remark which was thrown in for Ruth's benefit. [5]
Short sentences using benefit
- Mechanics' Benefit Union. [5]
More example sentences with the word benefit in them
- At all events, you ought to thank Judge Douglas for it; it is for your benefit it is made. [7]
- Whenever a poor wretch asks you for help, and you feel a doubt as to what result may flow from your benevolence, give yourself the benefit of the doubt and kill the applicant. [5]
- If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
- It is a world calamity, indeed, but a calamity, since it has come, to be spiritualized and utilized for the benefit of the future society of mankind. [9]
- His remarkable talents won the love of the great Onuphis and he taught him all the Egyptian mysteries, which Pythagoras afterwards turned to account for the benefit of mankind. [10]
- Now, Douglas is wiser than you, for your own benefit, upon that subject. [7]
- Colonel, poor Laura will never get any benefit from our bill. [5]
- The country air will benefit her. [10]
- The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
- It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
- From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation. [6]
- It may be well to relate how we do it, for the benefit of other inchoate Goths. [4]
- During the first week Dion's wound and fever still harassed him, but the prediction of Pyrrhus that the pure, fresh sea-air would benefit the sufferer had been fulfilled, and the monotonous days had passed swiftly enough to the young bride in caring for the invalid. [10]
- But now he was showing virtues,--if virtues they were,--and she tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. [9]
- The water way was not finished at that period, because an oracle had asserted that it would benefit only the foreigners, the Phoenicians. [10]
- Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefit of mankind are narrow, self-pleasing, conceited men, and affect us as the insane do. [6]
- All were agreed upon one point, however: if Congress would make a sufficient appropriation, a colossal benefit would result. [5]
- It was agreed upon at length by the trustees, that the Cynthia Badlam Fund for Educational Purposes should be applied for the benefit of the two foundlings, known as Isosceles and Helminthia Hopkins. [6]
- It may be true that Lanphier insists that the two men for whose benefit it was originally devised shall at least bear their share of it! [7]
- But though he tried nobly, his heart was not in the relation, for her benefit, of Mr. Crewe's garden-party. [9]
- But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill making appropriations of land on that principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. [7]
- The mere coming together to compare views and discuss interests and tendencies and problems which concern both the workers and the great public, cannot fail to be of benefit to both. [4]
- He had begun to plan for his return, and concerning amusements at Stormfield for the entertainment of the neighbors, and for the benefit of the library which he had founded soon after his arrival in Redding. [5]
- Do we pray to make ourselves better, or to benefit those that hear us; to enlighten the Infinite, or to be heard of men? [5]
- I wish also to extend my thanks to the Authors' Club for constituting me a member, at a reasonable price per year, and for giving me the benefit of your legal adviser. [5]
- You are soon to enter into relations with the public, to expend your skill and knowledge for its benefit, and find your support in the rewards of your labor. [3]
- If you go to Benares with a serious desire to spiritually benefit yourself, you will find it valuable. [5]
- It taught men to be wise and good and for their own benefit to follow the example and instruction of the best and wisest men. [2]
- But I ought to be satisfied: I was only eleven years old, but I secured everlasting benefit to other people. [5]
- It was not to be expected, as Leicester had said, that Elizabeth, save for the whim of the moment, would turn aside to confer benefit upon Angele or to keep her in mind, unless constrained to do so for some political reason. [11]
- The doing good to another person where no shadow nor suggestion of benefit to one's self can result from it. [5]
- They all wish to act for your benefit, and desire nothing except a clear understanding of this vexatious business. [10]
- Yet at that time he was not aware of the new benefit he was to owe to her within the next hour. [10]
- I look upon this incontinence as merely the redundancy of a susceptibility to poetry which makes all the bards my daily treasures, and I can well run the risk of being ridiculous once a year for the benefit of happy reading all the other days. [6]
- But how is this going to benefit you, after I have managed it? [5]
- There are some things which, for the credit of America, should be left unsaid, perhaps; but these very things happen sometimes to be the very things which, for the real benefit of Americans, ought to have prominent notice. [5]
- I am sure they have no intention of giving me the benefit of any doubt. [11]
- For, after all, there was the spirit of Art in framing a great policy which would benefit millions in the present and countless millions in the future. [11]
- But I was the youngest, the comforter, the nestling; and never was the fact of so much benefit to me as at that time. [10]
- They were in the York and North-Midland Company, which was one of Mr. Hudson's pet lines, and had the full benefit of his peculiar system of management. [14]
- We will drop the subject with one remark for the benefit of whom it may concern. [4]
- They said that the stove might benefit those who sat close to it, but it would drive all the cold air to the other parts of the church, and freeze the people to death; it was cold enough now around the edges. [4]
- The appointments of the place are so luxurious, the benefit so marked, the price so moderate, and the insults so sure, that you very soon find yourself adoring the Friederichsbad and infesting it. [5]
- We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. [5]
- He, Don John, the not all unworthy son of the great Emperor Charles, was not born to obey all his life, and allow himself to be turned to account, worn out, and abused for the benefit of another. [10]
- The ladies of the Hawaiian capital learned too late the right way to occupy a horse--too late to get much benefit from it. [5]
- By order of the emperor, each man, however, must be particularly careful whom he cut down in any hiding-place, for Caesar wished to give the following Alexandrians--who had sinned most flagrantly against him--the benefit of a trial, and they must therefore be taken alive. [10]
- The placard announced the coming of Mr. Glover's Company for the following night, and that the Honorable Alva Hopkins of Gosport, ex-Speaker of the House, had bought three hundred and twelve seats for the benefit of the members. [9]
- The fathers of the city had determined to seize the Glippers' abandoned dwellings and apply the property found in them to the benefit of the common cause. [10]
- We then learned that you had requested him to go to Goldsborough; upon which we said to him our order was intended for your benefit, and we did not wish to be in conflict with your views. [7]
- Soon Tom said that they were interfering with each other, and neither getting the fullest benefit of the tick. [5]
- The stay in Tennis does not seem to agree with you--you are coughing, and father expected so much benefit to your ailment from the pure moist air, and to Hermon still more from the lonely life here in your society. [10]
- It is popularly supposed that the disintegration and distribution of a great fortune, especially if it has been accumulated by doubtful methods, is a benefit to mankind. [4]
- According to the statement of the advocates and contemporaries of this remedy, none ever failed of receiving benefit unless their little faith and credulity starved their merits. [6]
- The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, and everybody knows it; but no matter, a German family who are all kindness and consideration in the daytime make apparently no effort to moderate their noises for your benefit at night. [5]
- At any rate some of the lines he read us in the afternoon of this same day had never enjoyed the benefit of my revision, and I think they had but just been written. [6]
- From this peep-hole she studied the character and destination of all the passers-by that came within range of her vision, and made her comments and deductions, partly to herself, but for the benefit of those who might be listening. [4]
- Even on the second day he felt that the profound silence which surrounded him was a benefit. [10]
- But Dr. Bostock says: "Much as the naturalist has been indebted to the microscope, by bringing into view many beings of which he could not otherwise have ascertained the existence, the physiologist has not yet derived any great benefit from the instrument. [3]
- There is no sacrifice I would not willingly make for your benefit. [6]
- It is a river of desolation; and instead of reminding you, like other beautiful rivers, of an angel which has descended for the benefit of man, you imagine it a devil, whose energies have been only overcome by the wonderful power of steam. [5]
- If the fool resists his uncle, whose sole desire is to benefit him, I will withdraw my aid. [10]
- If he were regent, every service which she rendered the party would benefit him personally. [10]
- Col. Leonard has received a letter from him in which he offers me a complimentary benefit if I will come there. [5]
- If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such. [7]
- Dr. Brown will publicly treat the most stubborn cases, laying himself open to the derision of mankind if he does not instantly give relief and benefit. [11]
- And yet there prevailed in the community a vague sense that millions were there, and a curious expectation of some individual benefit from them. [4]
- The era of political domination by a corporation, and mainly for the benefit of a corporation, is over. [9]
- And, for their part, they did not appreciate the benefit of being accompanied by a poet and a philosopher. [4]
- I think my own health has derived benefit from change and exercise. [14]
- We can, in our ignorance of most of the lowest animals, only say that their bright tints result either from the chemical nature or the minute structure of their tissues, independently of any benefit thus derived. [1]
- But then you ought to have raised me first, so that Orion could have had the benefit of my example. [5]
- But, on the other hand, besides the advantages which would accrue to you, it might, to put the matter delicately, be of a little benefit to your relations, who will have to think of your future. [9]
- I was the only one of our party who saw this grand sight; the others were attitudinizing, for the benefit of the long rank of young ladies who were promenading on the bank, and so they lost it. [5]
- Where you find one that pays--like St. Anne--you find a hundred and fifty that take the benefit of the statute. [5]
- We stick to one person, and to benefit that one we sacrifice others. [11]
- The horses were on a brisk trot, and Mr. Cooke seemed to be getting the best out of them for the benefit of the sprinkling of people on the inn porch. [9]
- This conspicuous position of the feted artist did not please every one, and a rhetorician, famed for his sharp tongue, whispered to his neighbour, one of Hermon's older fellow-artists, "What his eyes have lost seems to benefit his tongue. [10]
- When the extent of the Bigler swindle was disclosed there was no more hope that Mr. Bolton could extricate himself, and he had, as an honest man, no resource except to surrender all his property for the benefit of his creditors. [5]
- Put a lump of sugar in a canary-bird's cage, and the small creature will illustrate the instinct for the benefit of inquirers or sceptics. [6]
- Thereupon several rolls of gold solidi were paid to the astonished student--and they had been of little real benefit, since they had made it possible for him to keep pace with his wealthy and aristocratic classmates and share many of their extravagances. [10]
- By a refinement of cruelty she receives no benefit whatever from the missionaries who are sent out by--what to her must seem a new name for Tantalus--the American Board. [4]
- A lifelong habit of admitting nothing and a lifelong pride made the acknowledgment of possible professional lapses for the benefit of his employer not to be thought of. [9]
- This rascally trick of a servant whom he had treated with almost brotherly kindness wounded Hermon, but he soon regarded the morose fellow's disappearance as a benefit. [10]
- Were I to number the persons whom I met here and whose acquaintanceship I consider a benefit, the list would be a long one. [10]
- I am helping now to work up the materials for a Tourist's Guide which the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company are going to issue this summer for the benefit of travelers who go by that line. [5]
- The nation is now in debt for money applied to the benefit of these so-called seceding States in common with the rest. [7]
- And had I not been so long accustomed to picking holes in arguments I am sure I should not have perceived the fallacies of this she was making for the benefit of the Celebrity. [9]
- The kind-hearted sovereign nodded significantly, and said, "Then it must benefit those who, so long as he lives, may expect his father's favour. [10]
- And so, when Mr. Allen brought forth for my benefit those arguments of the King's party which were deemed their strength, I would confront him with Mr. Swain's logic. [9]
- Here, during those months when the sun made the asphalt soft, on a scaffolding spanning the window of the store, might be seen a perspiring young man in his shirt sleeves chalking up baseball scores for the benefit of a crowd below. [9]
- Particularity expending the money of the whole people for an object which will benefit only a portion of them--is the greatest real objection to improvements, and has been so held by General Jackson, Mr. Polk, and all others, I believe, till now. [7]
- This is the miscreant that I was going to benefit with all my little arts, and that, even now, I feel so much for, as to wish to let him go! [12]
- However refractory she might be, his mother's intercession should benefit her. [10]
- And that the men who create these great works, and organize these schemes for the benefit of the whole public, shouldn't make anything by their superior enterprise and courage is all nonsense. [4]
- This incident led me to make some observations at table the next morning, which I here repeat for the benefit of the readers of this record. [6]
- It will benefit me a great deal. [5]
- Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from them to the state. [6]
- And, as a matter of historical experience, a class in power has always sought its own benefit rather than that of the whole people. [4]
- There were, too, many Alexandrians who expected to gain some benefit, promotion, or distinction through the emperor's favorites. [10]
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