kind offices

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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.

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I am sure I need say no more, except to assure you that what ever kind offices you may bestow upon Marmaduke Heath, will not be wasted upon an unworthy object.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James

If there be disorder, defect of principle, discord among the members, neglect of duty, and absence of kind offices, the sphere of those who constitute that home can hardly be salutary.

From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)