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
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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 Lester Ralph
That’s because we joined together to do a kindness to some one.
From The Magic World by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
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 Harold Piffard
When you do a kindness, make a small thing of it, though it be a great; and when you receive a kindness, make much of it, though it be small.
From Arabian Wisdom by John Wortabet