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Example sentences for "good and"

  • What novel, what history, what work of any sort, what world, would be perfect without existing principles both of good and evil?

  • All the pilgrims, good and bad--they, or the seed and possibility of them all, are all in your heart and in mine.

  • He had never managed, even in his religion, to get into the confidence of his sons; but when their mother took them into her agonised confidence, from that day she was in all their confidences, good and bad.

  • Sleep is good and necessary in our bodily life.

  • The proportion of good and evil, instead of being as one hundred to one hundred, becomes as fifty to fifty: in this we may take, once for all, the measure of eclecticism.

  • Upon this unexpected revelation I ask how it happens, if man is good and charitable, that the rich calumniate charity while the poor defile it?

  • Or is the neither doing nor suffering evil good and honourable, although not pleasant?

  • We acknowledged that the world is full both of good and evil, but having more of evil than of good.

  • For it is he who has to determine the nature of good and evil, and how they should be studied with a view to our instruction.

  • In the next place, we acknowledge that the soul is the cause of good and evil, just and unjust, if we suppose her to be the cause of all things?

  • Then, if we know what is good and bad in song and dance, we shall know what education is?

  • So come, that we may examine Whether she be both a good and a frugal and virtuous maiden.

  • That which she says will be good and sensible,--this I am sure of.

  • We may hardly admit that the moral antithesis of good and pleasure, or the intellectual antithesis of knowledge and opinion, being and appearance, are never far off in a Platonic discussion.

  • The antithesis of good and pleasure, which as in other dialogues is supposed to consist in the permanent nature of the one compared with the transient and relative nature of the other.

  • He was so good and so anxious to learn, and flushed so pink, that his education was cut short, and he was left to his own devices by every one except the Senior Subaltern, who continued to make life a burden to The Worm.

  • I can see if the land is good and if the landlord is good.

  • It is good and wholesome, and does no one any harm, unless tempers are lost; and then there is trouble.

  • Well, suppose I were to print it, and send it to you in the form of a book, would it not be as good and useful as ever?

  • Peterkin used to say of it, that it beat a druggist's shop all to sticks; for, whereas the first is a compound of good and bad, the other is a horrible compound of all that is utterly detestable.

  • Fair were their bucklers, mickle, good and broad.

  • By the bridle he held the steed, so stately, good and fair, and large and strong, until King Gunther had sat him in the saddle.

  • Good and evil'' may be a late marginal gloss.

  • All actions are product of pleasure and pain, good and evil.

  • He undid, as far as lay in his power, the works of his grandfather, good and bad.

  • The harbour is good and safe, and agricultural produce is exported, while coal and iron are among the chief imports.

  • He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near.

  • All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul towards what is good and best.

  • For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.

  • For pestilence and famine make people good and rich; but war and wicked rulers bring to naught everything that has to do with temporal and eternal possessions.

  • In brief, nothing can be in or about us and nothing can happen to us but that it must be good and meritorious, if we believe (as we ought) that all things please God.

  • My heart failed me when I thought of the distress that he might feel--and, perhaps of the contempt of myself which, good and gentle as he is, he might not be able to disguise.

  • I for one," Mrs. Linley interposed, "expect everything that is good and true.

  • The housekeeper has been all that is good and kind to me, madam.

  • Where then is God's love of good and hatred of evil?

  • To have found the truth and not to have found it are as unlike as gold and leather; good and evil, as black and white.

  • I do not understand very well what a bishop's work is, but I am sure it must be good and helpful, and I am glad that my dear friend is brave, and wise, and loving enough to do it.

  • It makes me happy to know much about my loving Father, who is good and wise.

  • So this sad experience may have done me good and set me thinking on some of the problems of composition.

  • I often tell them stories or teach them a game, and the winged hours depart and leave us good and happy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    father looked; good cheer and keep thine eyes; good citizens; good citizenship; good earnest; good example; good farming; good fellow; good folk; good grip; good half; good husbandry; good number; good nurse; good offices; good physician; good port; good roads; good sign; good song; good sooth; good story; good strong; good style; good tone; good turn