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
"Is there anybody to whom you would like to do a kindness?"
From Trading by Warner, Susan
She mistook it even when she tried to do a kindness to Margherita.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
"I wish to do a kindness to my brother," said Miss Mackenzie—"and to my niece."
From Miss Mackenzie by Trollope, Anthony
"I hope I am not so churlish as not to be willing to do a kindness to anybody," he went on rapidly, "but I resent being treated as dirt by such as you."
From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)
