Detective Wooldridge gets busy, and a goodly portion of the spoil finds its way out of the hands of the sharpers in the way of a fine.
I do not ask for the balance of the $100 until after your marriage, and I have caused the lady to place in your hands or under your control a goodly portion of her worldly possessions.
P: For them there is in store a goodly portion out of that which they have earned.
A goodly portion of the upper part was swampy, and beyond that were ledges, covered with creeping vines, over which one could not make his way even if he felt so disposed.
I have an idea that when we get a mill for grinding, it will be possible to break the kernels easily and quickly between the millstones, without crushing a goodly portion of them to meal.
It is true that even the palisade, which was near to forty feet distant from the fort, was seized upon by the flames, and a goodly portion of that which had cost us so much labor was entirely destroyed.
They are fond of social intercourse, and spend a goodly portion of their time in visiting each other.
A goodly portion of the day have I spent in one of their most secret recesses.
The fiddler not only furnished all the music, but also performed a goodly portion of the dancing,—fiddling and dancing at the same time.
A goodly portion of this day have I been musing upon the olden times, while rambling about Fort George, and Fort William Henry.
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