27 Metaphors for kindnesses

My opinion is that the government, by exhibiting confidence in the people and in its own stability, should grant what is asked, then it could freely revoke the permission when it saw that its kindness was being abusedreasons and pretexts would not be wanting, we can watch them.

It is possible that some of these penitents, living in the forest and having no other companions, learned to love the animals that came to see them; but the much-vaunted kindness to animals of the Hindoos in general is merely a matter of superstition and not an outcome of sympathy.

The kindness of your reception, even were there no other indications, would have satisfied me that you are French.

But he was singularly unsuspicious, and his natural kindness was an additional motive to the wish for introducing some variety into the routine of Elsie's life.

Kindness to animals is another virtue of the Norwegian people.

It was as though a kindness to Mrs. Lascelles was already the greatest possible kindness to him.

Even when kindness is her portion she is an outsider from the family circle.

Kindness always melted her heart utterly, but kindness with such beautiful courtesy addedthis was the quality in flower.

Kindness is no crime!

Kindness is a thing which the Spaniards as a nation find it very difficult to forgive.

We feel a genuine reluctance to conclude this article without making our grateful acknowledgements, by name, to a gentleman whose overflowing kindness was the main condition of all our sight-seeings and enjoyments.

" [Illustration: "As I was a-saying, kindness to animals is all very well"] WATCH-DOGS

20 His learning, and untainted manners too, We find, Athenians, are derived to you: Such ancient hospitality there rests In yours, as dwelt in the first Grecian breasts, Whose kindness was religion to their guests.

Kindness is all her Art, and Beauty all her Arms.

"Kindness, you say, would be your destruction," she wrote in August, 1710.

"Thanks, thanks, good Peterchen," said the Baron de Willading, for such was the familiar diminutive by which the bustling bailiff was usually addressed by those who could take the liberty; thanks, honest Peterchen; thy kindness to Gaetano is so much love shown to myself.

They imagine that every kindness, every ordinary courtesy shown them, is merely a bid for a slice of the cake.

Kindness was the keynote of his character.

His kindness to her had been a new experience.

Father Faber 58 KINDNESS IS THE WORD.

Colonel Stewart's kindness and hospitality are a byword in Persia, and the Sunday of our arrival at Résht was truly a day of rest after the discomfort and privations we had undergone since leaving Baku.

A large and tender kindness of disposition is the father of the thought, it may be; but the thought seems to gain ground and take shape, that so much of apparently human mind and heart as the dog possesses cannot be destined to annihilation at his death, but must live and enlarge in another sphere of existence.

His uncommon kindness to his servants, and serious concern, not only for their comfort in this world, but their happiness in the next, was another unquestionable evidence of what all, who were intimately acquainted with him, knew to be true.

It is true that even in the heathen world there began at this time to be disseminated among the best and wisest thinkers a sense that slaves were made of the same clay as their masters, that they differed from freeborn men only in the externals and accidents of their position, and that kindness to them and consideration for their difficulties was a common and elementary duty of humanity.

Queen Victoria's kindness in asking her to remain at Pembroke Lodge was a great comfort to her.

27 Metaphors for  kindnesses