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
A man can never be too great to do a kindness to the humblest individual in the world.
From Anecdotes for Boys by Newcomb, Harvey
When you do a kindness hide it, and when a kindness is done to you proclaim it.
From Arabian Wisdom by Wortabet, John
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
