For themselves it is best and kindest that so deep a loss could come home to their consciousness in pain.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
"I don't remember all of it, but there was another line or two: "The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
"After all our neighbors have done for him," she cried bitterly; "after giving him hay, when his was burned and he couldn't buy any; after building stables, and corral, and-everything they did-the kindest, best neighbors a man ever had-oh, it's too shameful for utterance!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower