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

She mistook it even when she tried to do a kindness to Margherita.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

When it comes to patronage, we’re all patronized: you do a kindness for a friend, without remuneration, and he accepts it; that’s patronage.

From The Dominant Dollar by Ralph, Lester

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

And can’t a body do a kindness for a lad without loving him?”

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth