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
"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)
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 Wortabet, John
"Is there anybody to whom you would like to do a kindness?"
From Trading by Warner, Susan
A man can never be too great to do a kindness to the humblest individual in the world.
From Anecdotes for Boys by Newcomb, Harvey
