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Example sentences for "good old"

  • Good old creetur, he don't get along as well as he ort to.

  • Mother Gee is a good old female no doubt, but it is resky work to take a new husband to live with, and when you take a mother-in-law too it adds to the resk.

  • And we see the cup General Washington drinked tea out of, good old creeter.

  • And he's made such a good old Christian of this dark sinner, Aunt Rachel, that I wouldn't take two thousand dollars for her.

  • Anybody wanting a good old mother on a plantation where little niggers are raised will find the thing in the old institution before you.

  • Avails' is good old English, and the vails of Sir Joshua Reynolds's porter are famous.

  • By gold, it is gold, quoth Panurge, good old gold, I'll assure you.

  • Here, with the property he had with his lady, and the wreck of his fortune, he sustained the character of a gentleman to a good old age, leaving an only son, to whom Queen Anne gave the colonelcy of a regiment of foot.

  • If a New York audience were as highly cultivated in music as you are, I admit that my precautions would be superfluous.

  • Turn around and notice that wonderful purple halo which is hovering over the forests below.

  • But that old woman there is a good old woman, Pew.

  • Ah, my good old Dumont, this is very sad.

  • The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse.

  • I think I learned from him to express myself in good old-fashioned English, and without making as much fuss about it as our Fourth of July orators and political haranguers were in the habit of making.

  • The 'good old' Queen, full of years and virtue, had emerged from her seclusion for the last time to make a London holiday.

  • And he was sufficiently accustomed to sheep-like and unseeing visitors, to be intrigued by one who did not hesitate to say of Mauve: "Good old haystacks!

  • Although the force had much improved by the increase of discipline, they would have much preferred the good old times of plunder and prisoners.

  • My first duty was to remove the load, together with the saddle, from my good old horse.

  • She was a good old soul, but wonderfully fond of fine clothes; and on great occasions she always turned out in clouds of snowy muslin with red edges and fringe, like a young Abyssinian beauty.

  • I never saw such a good old fellow to make the best of a thing, and find out the enjoyment of it, as Mr. Omer.

  • I gave him a look, but no other answer; and, going to my good old master, said a few words that I meant to be words of comfort and encouragement.

  • At the close of that period he returned to Portugal, where he superintended the education of some of the members of the royal family, and survived to a good old age.

  • And, so far from forfeiting the favor of his sovereigns by his conduct on this occasion, he was maintained by them in the same high stations, which he before held, and which he continued to fill with dignity to a good old age.

  • And yet a life of competence and ease, a smiling family, a good old age; what offers to a fond and doting wife!

  • She went away to Goa, in company with a priest who knew, her, Father Mathias, a good old man; he gave me absolution when he was here.

  • There were insuperable objections against signing his own to any person who might be in communication with Mr. Darrell; a pity, for there was a good old family of the name of Losely.

  • Oblige me by not calling Mr. Waife a villain; good old fellow in his way.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good old" 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:
    good authority; good bit; good book; good brother; good cousin; good cream; good customer; good dame; good dish; good doctor; good faith; good fellowe; good field; good food; good fruit; good humour; good large; good look; good measure; good number; good old; good play; good priest; good quality; good scout; good sense