Kindnesses
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Examples
- She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I beseech you before I go, not perhaps to return, once more to let me press the hand from which I have received nothing but kindnesses all my life. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We took the kindnesses we received as attentions thus directed, of course, and not to ourselves as a party. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Kindnesses all my life, echoed Rawdon, scratching down the words, and quite amazed at his own facility of composition. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The harder because you have been so considerate to me in all other respects and have done me kindnesses that I can never acknowledge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He thought how he had deserted that generous father, and of the thousand kindnesses which the stern old man had done him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Gratitude for kindnesses is well, but it seems to me that some of those artists carried it so far that it ceased to be gratitude and became worship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Nicolas