His hospitality pleased the Khalif and the goodliness of his fashion, and he said to him, "O youth, who art thou?
His fashion pleased the Khalif and the goodliness of his speech and he said in himself, "By Allah, I will assuredly requite him for this!
Then he entered a by-street, that he might rest himself, and seeing there a handsome and lofty house, stood in its shade and fell to observing thegoodliness of its ordinance.
One day, as he sat in an assembly, amongst a number of folk, he heard them talking of his own goodliness and grace and saying, 'There is not in his time a goodlier than he.
Its goodliness pleased me; so I stood looking on it, and behold, a lovely woman [at the lattice].
So he carried the bracelet to the Sultan and it pleased him greatly, by reason of the goodliness of its workmanship.
FN#296] And indeed his comeliness was manifest and his goodliness and the folk marvelled at this.
Sit and divert us with thine art and the goodliness of thine accomplishments.
Her sister Nasim admired his eloquence of tongue and the goodliness of his speech and the elegance of the verses he sang, and was moved to ruth for him.
As by degrees a knowledge of Greek philosophy spread over Europe, men began to realise that there was a goodliness in life which they had not hitherto imagined.
He marvelled at the place and the goodliness of its fashion, but sensed no sound of speaker and saw no living soul and stood in perplexed surprise, looking right and left and knowing not whither he should wend.
Now all this was of the virtue of the wonderful lamp, [461] which gifted whoso possessed it with goodliness and grace and wealth and wisdom.
Verily, the girl whom thou hast brought me is exceeding in beauty and surpassing in loveliness; but the goodliness of thy loyalty and shine overmastering of thyself for my sake is fairer than she in mine eyes.
So [541] he went daily waxing in goodliness of repute and in praise and the love of him redoubled in the hearts of the common folk and he was magnified in men's eyes.
Apparently, good man, [636] thou art a stranger, since thou hast never chanced to hear of the fasts of this holy woman and her abhorrence of the world and the goodliness of her piety.
Then, unable to commend the place more than they had already done and themseeming time to turn homeward, they set out, with soft step, upon their way, discoursing much of the goodliness of the valley.
All this while Shefikeh abode gazing upon her, and when she beheld El Abbas his slave-girls and considered the goodliness of their apparel and the nimbleness of their wits and the elegance of their speech, her reason was confounded.
So I weighed out to him twelve hundred dinars, the mensual hire, and abode with her one month as it were one day, for what I saw of the comeliness of her semblance and the goodliness of her converse.
Well-away and alas for the loss of my Wazir and his just judgment and admirable administration and for the loss of his like of the Wazirs and Heads of the State and of the goodliness of their apt counsels and sagacious!
But grieve thou not, neither let this trouble thee, O King, for that assuredly thy son, after his tyranny and oppression, shall return to the goodliness of thy policy.
Then I passed through the door and saw a palace without equal for its building and the goodliness of the works that were therein.
So Judar went forth with his mother and brothers and saw a palace, whose like there was not in the whole world; and it confounded all minds with the goodliness of its ordinance.
Then he entered the palace and was confounded at its beauty and the goodliness of its construction.
Answered she, "Yes; and this for the perfection of beauty and loveliness and goodliness wherewith he is endowed.
She marvelled at the goodliness of his speech and the excess of his generosity and the perfection of his courtesy and said to him, "What is thy name, O my lord?
I have store of tales of the goodliness of friendship, which, an it like thee, I will relate to thee.
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
For "all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Quoth she, 'I hear and obey,' and improvised the following verses: The Merciful dyed me with that which I wear Of hues with whose goodliness none may compare.
The company marvelled at thegoodliness of his story and it pleased El Melik ez Zahir; and the prefect said, 'By Allah, this story is extraordinary!
When she was present at the wedding and saw thee and heard thy singing, she sent to me, giving me to know of thee and setting forth to me thine elegance and pleasantness and the goodliness of thy breeding and thy singing.
Then said she to him, "Look at the goodliness of my shape and my symmetry.
The first step in the emancipation of the modern mind was taken thus by art, proclaiming to men the glad tidings of theirgoodliness and greatness in a world of manifold enjoyment created for their use.
He was attracted by the marvellous mechanism of the human frame--its goodliness regarded as the most highly organised of animate existences.
His goodliness still goodlier is than that thou knewst of yore, And the hair guardeth him from those his charms would violate.
Then he fell to glorying in himself and his case and the goodliness of his entertainment and his companions, and recited these verses: None knoweth perfection of pleasure but he Who drinketh, with fair ones to hearten him still.
He marvelled at the place and the goodliness of its fashion, but heard no sound and saw no living soul and stood in perplexity, looking right and left and knowing not whither he should go.
Even his wise wit she hath beguiled at her will, and lightly laid him in the arms of mortal women; Hera not wotting of it, his sister and his wife, the fairest in goodliness of beauty among the deathless Goddesses.
Moreover, he was not a little moved by the goodliness and wisdom of the Sun-beam and the manliness of Folk-might, who was the most chieftain-like of men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodliness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
