Thus he "benefited the community going and coming." What!
The open air agreed with me, and as no bullet sought me out I felt benefited.
It may well be supposed that Borri benefited most by this acquaintance, and that Christina got nothing but experience.
While Bohemia suffered, however, the world has benefited at his hands; and the tables upon which Tycho was now engaged are well called the Rudolphine tables.
It benefited England more than all other nations put together, because it revealed to her people their inferiority in many branches both of workmanship and design.
Leir tells him what, according to Shakespeare, he tells Cordelia in the last scene, that, if the daughters whom he has benefited hate him, a retainer to whom he has done no good can not love him.
"A few fanatics hate us, and a few merchants who lost money when we replaced this primitive barter economy of theirs, but nine-tenths of them have benefited enormously from us, and continue to benefit...."
The man is benefited by the bridge-building if it turns out a good thing, and hurt by it if it turns out a bad one, whether he puts a hand to it or not; and meanwhile he is benefiting the bridge- builders by his work, whatever that may be.