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Example sentences for "good man"

  • He was a good man--and he's gone," she said to herself.

  • There they entered into the castle, and the lord of that castle was an old man that hight Vagon, and he was a good man of his living, and set open the gates, and made them all the cheer that he might.

  • That saw a knight that was nephew unto the King of the Hundred Knights; his name was Selises, and a good man of arms.

  • And then he said with fair speech: Good man, lay down that sword, for as meseemeth thou hadst more need of sleep and of warm clothes than to wield that sword.

  • Then by misfortune there came out of Sessoin a great number of men of arms, and an hideous host, and they entered nigh the Castle of Tintagil; and their captain's name was Elias, a good man of arms.

  • Some acts, it was said, which fall under the definition of treason are such that a good man may, in troubled times, be led into them even by his virtues.

  • But a man who took off his hat when he passed a church episcopally consecrated must be a good man, a pious man, a man of good principles.

  • He is often to blame; he is often ridiculous; but he is always a good man; and the feeling which he inspires is regret that a person so estimable should be so unamiable.

  • Campbell," said he, "is a good man, a pious man.

  • Yes, I replied, and he will be a good man (which is my answer to your question); for he is good who has a good soul.

  • Were we not saying that a good man, who has the misfortune to lose his son or anything else which is most dear to him, will bear the loss with more equanimity than another?

  • Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing him a sou.

  • He gazed at the brat with the amiable smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an aside: "Well, what now?

  • Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man.

  • My good man, do you suppose that when you have paid some ten thousand francs for your son, that there is an end of it?

  • And yet he might have been a good man (for I have known very good men so fortified by their own strange ideas of God): I say that he might have seemed a good man, but for the cold and cruel hankering of his steel-blue eyes.

  • The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

  • And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

  • A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

  • My good man," said Barbette, "I don't know.

  • Look at the rocks of Saint-Sulpice, there, my good man, to the right of Saint-Leonard.

  • Nonsense, my good man, you are not here to sell butter; you are talking to a lady who never bargained for a thing in her life.

  • Take my boy, for you've deprived him of his father and his mother; make a Blue of him, my good man, teach him to kill Chouans.

  • He was a good man, but he thought an office made a man great.

  • You spoke about man's ambition to have money helping to make him a good man.

  • He was a man who had never held office before; but he was a good man, and his friends have told me that I might use this without giving them offense.

  • Or, "you are a good man, and thereby fortunate.

  • You are a good man, Mr. Halifax, and you spoke warmly for us.

  • I could be a good man if I had her for my wife.

  • When King William heard say that, he was very wroth, and said that the abbot had renounced him: but good men went between them, and reconciled them; because the abbot was a good man.

  • He was a good monk, and a good man; and for this reason God and good men loved him.

  • A good man he was; and there was great dread of him.

  • Then went good men between them, and reconciled them, by reason that the abbot was a good man.

  • Ferdinand Lopez was not an honest man or a good man.

  • But the girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband;--a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

  • John Griffith has been a good man, and if not always quite ready with his rent, has never been much behind.

  • Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

  • Now do you really imagine that I could have survived all these years, if I had led a public life, supposing that like a good man I had always maintained the right and had made justice, as I ought, the first thing?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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