Citations:benefactor
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English citations of benefactor
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- 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
- It was some months, however, before I resolved upon this; and, therefore, as I had rewarded the old captain fully, and to his satisfaction, who had been my former benefactor, so I began to think of the poor widow, whose husband had been my first benefactor, and she, while it was in her power, my faithful steward and instructor.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefactor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own!