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

So, when the doctor come out of the house, I hailed him, and asked him if he'd do a kindness to a shipwrecked mariner stranded on a lee shore.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.

"I hope I am not so churlish as not to be willing to do a kindness to anybody," he went on rapidly, "but I resent being treated as dirt by such as you."

From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)

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

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