Example Sentences

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But there’s an unexpected sweetness to the musical, and ultimately a kindheartedness, too.

From New York Times • May 21, 2018

"But how about the virtues that you don't get fined for not having—truthfulness, unselfishness, kindheartedness and all those?"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-15 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

She added, that he was always good-natured to poor folks, and seemed to have a deal of feeling and kindheartedness about him. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Of his charity and kindheartedness there was no end.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

One of the fine traits of his character that he is acknowledged to have possessed, was his never-failing kindheartedness and his deep gratitude towards those persons who had ever done him a service.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Bache, Constance