Leacock said that human kindliness is an essential element of humour. From Wordnik.com. [our] Reference
You yourself, Derrick, must have observed a certain kindliness and – and open generosity, with a wistful sound in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story] Reference
"Nay," old Ebbits interposed in kindliness, "the white man's is not. From Wordnik.com. [The White Man's Way] Reference
"Nay," old Ebbits interposed in kindliness, "the white man's is not a lying people. From Wordnik.com. [The White Man's Way] Reference
But greatly inferior in kindliness to some. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo] Reference
That is the highest type of kindliness which is spontaneous and self - motived. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
He is original and earnest, and full of a genial and almost tender kindliness which is delightful to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Clara's first customer was Mrs. Tower, -- a stout florid lady, full of the good-will and the real kindliness which is so sweet in times of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.] Reference
Finding life hard, they helped each other with a general kindliness which is impracticable among the complexities of elaborate social organizations. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln]
There was a mutual approach, and a growing kindliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
He felt a bond of kindliness far deeper than brotherly love. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The face positively radiated kindliness, and friendship, and peace. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
Father Healy, on hearing it, lost for once his accustomed kindliness. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
In the end Elizabeth consented -- consented with kindliness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
These sharp words were so unlike his usual kindliness, that the lad was bewildered. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The kindliness of his nature was untouched by the sorrow and sickness that he bore. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
A small boy seated on a log, regarding his elder with gentle kindliness and understanding!. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
India Council in Whitehall, a large-hearted man, full of knowledge and full of kindliness. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The perfection of cheerfulness is displayed in general good temper united to much kindliness of heart. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
And from the spirit of this remark it will be seen that kindliness and fellowship had gone by the board. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Madeline to decide, and found occupation for their kindliness in ministering to her needs of the present. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
But beneath that rugged rind there appears to have lurked much warmth of affection and kindliness of heart. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The International Committee of the Red Cross at Geneva has been a centre of kindliness in the midst of carnage. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
That such a man could do business in the streets, was a credit to the kindliness of the people incommoded by him. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
In private life his kindliness and courtesy won the hearts of all who came near him, young and old, rich and poor. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
"There is no need," the doctor assured her, patting her shoulder with the deliberate kindliness he reserved for her. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
If she had shown the girl from the ranch some little kindliness the night before, she now hid it all very successfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
In his folly he had hailed himself king of her affections when perchance it was but the kindliness of her womanly heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The very richness of the soil and the kindliness of the climate has tempted growers to adopt speculative methods of growing wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference
"Kitty is promising, by proxy, that she will carry on the work of kindliness and good-will that you and your wife have begun in Rudham.". From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
His tone had been kindness itself, the gentle kindliness that had won her childish sisterly love when first he began to visit her sister. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
It was the simplicity and kindliness of his relative Palmerston that won his heart, rather than confidence in his policy at home or abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The people themselves are unlovely in thought, and word, and deed; but I have found a good deal of rough kindliness amongst them nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Rejoicing to grant what he desired most of all things in the world, he extended his hands to the Duke with all the nobleness and kindliness of a Bourbon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Such was his kindliness of spirit that he was not unduly elated by success, and never, either in trial or achievement, did he become vindictive or revengeful. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
And let it be remembered, it must be a large measure of kindliness and benevolence that will repay the injustice and wrongs that have been inflicted upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
All Paris was talking of the shipwreck in which life and fortune had been lost by a man whose kindliness as a host at his wife's parties every one had appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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