The Italians have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so good, that he is good for nothing.
Good for you," cried the boys, quick to acknowledge courage even in one of the weaker sex.
Both were in heaven, and he prayed to both, trying to be good forlove of them.
However, I am good for a few months yet, and by that time I hope we shall gain enough to make my old woman comfortable, for I have been absent from her some years.
It is the snowy covering under which a volcano is burning.
Deschartres, who had always treated her as a boy, encouraged her independence.
In an inverse order, romanticism consists in putting literature into our life, in taking the latest literary fashion for our rule of action.
It claims a good deal as to what it is good for, and as far as I have tried it, in several capacities, it does the things it claims to do, does them well.
It would do no good for generations of Margaritas to inherit that Golden Voice--each and all must give it up--for Roger.
Also, like older people, they are prone to like what isn't good for them.
Starlight had told her what to do in case he wanted what wasn't good for him, and as she was pretty middling obstinate, like himself, she took her own ways.
He said that unfortunately they were not in a position to bring many of the cattle back that had been taken to another colony; but one remarkable animal was as good for purposes of evidence as a hundred.
She said that it would be no good for her to stay in Leipzig, for she could do nothing for the wretched Schwerin or even keep herself for a day, for she had not got a farthing.
No, THE AULD LICHT IDYLS never reached me - I wish it had, and I wonder extremely whether it would not be good for me to have a pennyworth of the Auld Licht pulpit.
Nearly four months now I have rested my brains; and if it be true that rest is good for brains, I ought to be able to pitch in like a giant refreshed.
I'm sure it is good for me to be beside you; I hope it will be blessed to me; I thank you for myself and the good you do me.
Who is there so good in mind, body or estate, but bettering won't still be good for him?
It is good for a poor curate that there should be splendid bishops at Fulham and Lambeth: their lordships were poor curates once, and have won, so to speak, their ribbon.
Thus it is good for men to be roused into action and stiffened into self-reliance by difficulty, rather than to slumber away their lives in useless apathy and indolence.
For it is by no means an uncommon prejudice, still prevalent amongst City men, that a person who has written a book, and still more one who has written a poem, is good for nothing in the way of business.
To conclude: a fair measure of work is good formind as well as body.
It cannot be good for us to send ships laden outside with iron shields instead of inside with soft goods and hardware to these thickly thronged American ports.
It cannot be good for us to export thousands upon thousands of soldiers to Canada of whom only hundreds would return.
It cannot be good for us to have to throw millions into these harbors instead of taking millions out from them.
I shan't be good foranything if you make me laugh!
We're real sorry you're sick--boneset's good for colds.
Good for you, Polly Peacemaker," cried Tom, quoting his father, and giving them a grand push as the most appropriate way of expressing his approbation of the sentiment.
Very much; but I don't think it would be good for me to go to many," answered Polly, slowly.
Let 'em take it, it is n't good for much; and you come on mine.
If you know what's good for you, you'll do as you're told!
If he knows what's good for him, he'll know enough to leave this alone.
It would do no good for you to steal them first, for they would only take that as a ruse of old Luddy's, and murder the man first and hunt afterward.
It will be good for you, Mansus--where did you get that ridiculous name, by the way!
Good for you, Belinda Mary," said he, and tucking her arm in his he led her out of the room switching off the light and racing her down the stairs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
