kind offices

Example Sentences

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H. G. Wells lends kind offices and has hockey parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through his kind offices, after a few weeks' residence in Vienna, I made the acquaintance of Count Stockhammer, one of the most useful friends I found there.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

Is it a great pleasure to you to do them kind offices, supply their temporal needs, promote their spiritual well-being, and cheer and comfort them in the manifold sorrows of life?

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

Hilda of course seconded this proposition, and Eva agreed to it, to the surprise of Aline, who could not but consent to accompany her friend after commending Herwarth to the kind offices of Uncle Balthasar.

From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph

Joe naturally felt some diffidence in returning an answer, and turned towards his friend on the shop-board with a glance that was meant to entreat his kind offices in the formation of a reply.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas