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

Generosity is to do a kindness before it is asked, and to pity and give a man who asks.

From Arabian Wisdom by Wortabet, John

Miss Grant was not at all rich, but when a lady is resolved to do a kindness, she always finds out a way.

From Little Frankie at School by Leslie, Madeline

If it were only known how often one can do a kindness by being stupid, perhaps many, out of love for humanity, would affect stupidity.

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli

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