Dan smiled beneficently at me and I was seized with a warm, comforting feeling of being surrounded by people who really loved me.

Solis's voice remained firm, and he smiled beneficently at the vedeks arrayed about him in the semicircular chamber.

Iron John smiled beneficently at this and finally stopped it with a raised russet finger.

I saw her rise from *he green waters, smiling beneficently, and place in my mistress's hand a tiny hippopotamus no bigger than a wild partridge.

"We shall talk a little, while the water boils," said their host, smiling beneficently from one to the other.

Norinda smiled beneficently at the guests, as if in the entire universe, only they existed, only they deserved her devotion.

Bella was swallowing rapidly as the Prophets smiled at her beneficently.

"It's always yours," Hannibal answered, smiling beneficently at Kady.

"Oh, indeed," Wansor said, smiling beneficently around the table.

There stood his old comrade, the Traveler, smiling beneficently at him.