Kindness

Examples

• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and had a liking for the girl, and treated her with great kindness, and kept her always near her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His visit made no impression on me, except that I was grateful for his kindness in leaving me the money I wanted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This here red-nosed man, Sammy, wisits your mother-in-law vith a kindness and constancy I never see equalled. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I must now say good-by, said Caliphronas to the Rector, and thank you for your kindness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was evident that the impression left by Mrs. Fairlie's kindness was not, as I had supposed, the only strong impression on her memory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr Aaron, will you have the kindness? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The kindness was too much for the poor epileptic creature. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Whenever she is with us, Mrs. Cole does not know how to shew her kindness enough; and I must say that Jane deserves it as much as any body can. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His father had never conferred a favour or shewn a kindness more to his satisfaction. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• 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: Marilyn