kind offices

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H. G. Wells lends kind offices and has hockey parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

To have manifested good nature, was sufficient to procure credit for good character; and to have done kind offices, was to secure their return.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

Then, in return for Pirithous’ kind offices, he accompanied him to Hades, where they intended to carry off Proserpina.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)

It was a story-and-a-half cottage, of stucco, to which sun and wind and frost had offered their kind offices, mellowing pleasantly its original glare of white.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Thanet, Octave

Through his kind offices, after a few weeks' residence in Vienna, I made the acquaintance of Count Stockhammer, one of the most useful friends I found there.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles