A goodly number of hands flew about in the darkness, flourishing terrible canes and umbrellas, and from both the throngs arose a chorus of imprecations far from flattering to the canine race.
The women of the people were in the majority, but there were a goodly number of senoras: men were few.
Jewish faith withstood the oppression of Syria and held their own for a goodly number of years against not only the foreign yoke that oppressed them, but against the Hellenising corruption of their faith at home.
South Australia has a goodly number of schools for higher education, and it also has a university which is well attended.
They also crossed a goodly number of dry beds of rivers, which had every appearance of being full and running over in the season of heavy rains.
We drove to the resident portion of the city and saw a goodly number of private houses of the better sort.
There was, however, a goodly number of catechumens, who were very earnest in seeking baptism.
Thus, by way of farewell, we made a goodly number of Christians.
He keeps his bed a day or two for a slight indisposition, and a goodly number of ladies and gentlemen visit him, and converse with him in the ruelle;[544] in their presence he lifts up the blankets and spits in the sheets.
Some poets in their tragedies employ a goodly number of big sounding verses, which seem strong, elevated, and filled with lofty sentiments.
The writer has personal knowledge of a goodly number of women who have been benefited wonderfully by adopting the two meal a day plan.
It may be reasonably assumed that a goodly number of recoveries ascribed to drug treatments are due, in reality, to the resisting force of a good constitution, or to obedience to the laws of health given in the circular.
This closing announcement made a great sensation among his attentive listeners, and he marched back to the farm, confident that they would have a goodly number of spectators.
There is a goodly numberof works by Jan van Eyck in various galleries.
There is a large collection of the pictures of Vandyck at Windsor Castle; there are many also in the private galleries of Great Britain and other countries, besides a goodly number in the public galleries of Europe.
A book of brief anecdotal town histories, curious legends, notable events, newspaper clippings, together with a goodly number of illustrations.
Ministers throughout New England were quick to support or to oppose the revival movement, and a goodly number of them, as itinerants, took up the evangelical work.
He comes, a signal favor, with his three favorites, a goodly number of leudes in the train of his antrustions, as the royal favorites proudly style themselves.
It was not yet the hour for the slaves to proceed to the fields, and a goodly number of Neroweg's companions, in default of battle steeds, sat astride of draft and plow horses bridled with ropes.
Some trembled from head to foot; others fled into the thickest of the forest; still others, a goodly number, preserved their courage, and hastily sought for means of the defense.
He carries on an extensive farming business, and is the owner of a goodly number of tidy, respectful, and industrious slaves.
A goodly number of their more ridiculous games, however, they have abandoned of their own accord, but the manly game of ball-playing is still practised after the ancient manner, with one or two restrictions.
He raises a goodly number of cattle as well as horses and mules, and his principal markets for them are Charleston and Savannah, to which cities he performs a pilgrimage in the autumn of every year.
A goodly number of pastors speak to the candidates "unter vier Augen," but they are the exceptions.
Houseal, the pastor of Trinity Church, was a tory, and when in 1783 the American troops marched into New York, he with a goodly number of his adherents removed to Nova Scotia and founded a Lutheran church in Halifax.
A goodly number of eminent ministers in various non-Lutheran Protestant churches of this city are the children or grandchildren of Lutheran parents.
Although a goodly number of rings are enrolled, together with the gloves, yet a page is devoted to rings, exclusively, in the middle of the book.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodly number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
