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

Now keep quiet, and think of something pleasant,--of some one you are going to do a kindness to.

From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold

Yes, yes; that is all very well for him——" "It is very well for me too, Mr. Heron—to be able to do a kindness for any human creature.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

I am the spirit of the man you buried yesterday by the forest path, and in return for your kindness to me I shall do a kindness to you.

From Canadian Fairy Tales by MacMillan, Cyrus

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)