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
The man assented with pleasure—it paid to do a kindness for a Strangewey.
From The Hillman by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
When you do a kindness hide it, and when a kindness is done to you proclaim it.
From Arabian Wisdom by Wortabet, John
Had he even remotely fancied she would ever be anything nearer to him than just a formal friend who occasionally stooped to give a bright smile or do a kindness?
From The Search by Hill, Grace Livingston
It is pleasanter, they said, to do a kindness than to receive one.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
