Even when a small office was given almost as an act of charity, there would usually be a political motive in the background.
The gift was not an act of personal charity but a social investment.
Her days were filled with acts of charity and industry.
He didn't have a claim to the money; giving it to him would be an act of charity.
It was, he told them with a cold smile, an act of charity.
For me to warn you at all is an act of charity.
And therefore it would be an act of charity to spirit the young fellow to America.
I could see the dignity it gave to every act of charity.
I am an 86-year-old man who was given his job as an act of charity.
It was sold later for $4,000 in an act of charity to be erected again every year.