do a kindness

Example Sentences

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“You did not expect a guard to do a kindness for you—that almost never happened,” recalled Jack.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

Miss Grant was not at all rich, but when a lady is resolved to do a kindness, she always finds out a way.

From Little Frankie at School by Leslie, Madeline

Owen's cottage was not on his direct road, but he did not mind going out of his way to do a kindness.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

It is pleasanter, they said, to do a kindness than to receive one.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

And away the man went, eager, as most British sailors are, to do a kindness to a fellow-sailor in distress.

From Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Piffard, Harold