kind offices

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a story-and-a-half cottage, of stucco, to which sun and wind and frost had offered their kind offices, mellowing pleasantly its original glare of white.

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This was done through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian Consul-General at Ottawa.

From Songs of Heroic Days by O'Hagan, Thomas

"A man I have long wished to see, and thank for many kind offices in my absence.—I 'm glad to see you are acquainted with Mr. Dempsey.—Well, and how fares the world with you?"

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Pieces of the types of all of the Indian Spongillid� described by Carter have been obtained from the British Museum through the kind offices of Mr. R. Kirkpatrick.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson