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Example sentences for "good child"

  • Oh, my good child, I thought not to have seen thee in these thy grown-up years.

  • There's a good child, Susan; take it out and fill it at the tap, and put it on the fire to boil up while you are telling me the rest of the story.

  • Run into the shop the moment you have finished your tea, like a good child.

  • Drop it in like a good child, and then you shall shoo the fowls, and have your plumcake, and look in the microscope.

  • She had been a good child: she hadn't snatched.

  • That was what she had always been most like, all through life--a good child.

  • With her ash-grey hair, her wrinkles, and the mild unrecriminating expression with which she supported her pain, she looked like a good child caught up by old age in the obedient performance of some task.

  • Your mother takes so much pains with you that it would be a pity for you not to be a good child.

  • Don't fuss about the room, that is a good child, and I will send you a new ring, and you shall have a great big box of cake every month, and then all the other girls will want to be friends with you.

  • A good child, a good child, As I suppose you be, Never laughed nor smiled At the tickling of your knee.

  • Now go and put this away, and remember my words like a good child.

  • The king, our wise ruler, has sent us here to see your good child; for a good child is more precious than a kingdom.

  • A good child is worth more than a kingdom.

  • But you are not what you ought to be, after your kind; which is a good man, or a good woman, or a good child.

  • You're a good child to think of that," said Aunt Victoria.

  • Go to the nursery, like a good child," he said, "and get some tea.

  • Come and take your things off, like a good child.

  • Lie down and go to sleep, like a good child.

  • I meant — I meant — to be a good child, and I have been worse than ever I was in my life before.

  • Fanny over there looks ten times as much like a countess--even she is a good child, au fond, and the right sort of a husband might still make something of her.

  • It was a good child, unspoiled as yet, but with little sense and very giddy.

  • I meant--I meant--to be a good child, and I have been worse than ever I was in my life before.

  • She's a good child, but she's that puzzling.

  • I pray you now, good Child Waters, That I may creepe in att your bedds feete, For there is noe place about this house Where I may say a sleepe.

  • Lie quite quiet now like a good child, while I go down to prepare the bread and milk.

  • She kissed me once or twice at the very last moment, and told me to be a good child.

  • I hope you are a good child and do what you are told always," said Aunt Penelope.

  • By Jove," said father, "you are a good child to have kept it so long.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good appearance; good bearer; good because; good bread; good comrade; good conversation; good cream; good fortune; good gentlemen; good half; good house; good income; good international; good library; good life; good lump; good piece; good prince; good report; good rest; good sport; good standing; good turn; good yeast; goodness knows; horizontal beds