Wuthering Heights vocabulary

Hers was a case of ordinary occurrence (as I have since had reason to think), and one in which, if London beneficence had better adapted its arrangements to meet it, the power of the law might oftener be interposed to protect and to avenge.

Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

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I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish,

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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But not to speak of her alone, that early and terrible death has had the most beneficent influence on me and on my brother in spite of all our grief.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster