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Example sentences for "goodly"

Lexicographically close words:
goodish; goodlie; goodlier; goodliest; goodliness; goodlye; goodnature; goodnatured; goodnes; goodness
  1. There was a goodly number of people assembled; still not as many as I expected to see.

  2. It was a goodly heap which confronted him--fifteen hundred fresh skins, the season's catch; and under the circumstances he could have had but one conclusion.

  3. It was getting serious, and when he arose and caught my oar, and I realized his strength, I confess that I felt a goodly tinge of fear.

  4. Curtail the offices of government in pay, number and power; for the Philistine lords have shorn our nation of its goodly locks in the lap of Delilah.

  5. There was already a goodly heap of ore ready for hauling.

  6. Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

  7. Speak in thy faith of a faucet, now; is this goodly person before us here, this vapours, a knight of the knife?

  8. The workmen said they would sooner put their hands under the screw than so abuse their goodly craft.

  9. The coroner's quests we have still, and these would bring goodly profit, but the meat is aye gone ere the mouths be full.

  10. Of course, he would have a goodly supply of them.

  11. A goodly throng of Springfield people had gathered to see the distinguished party safely off.

  12. They envied the outlawed boys their goodly possessions; and they were nerved to undertake to appropriate the herds, even if the lives of the owners should be taken in order to compass their wishes.

  13. Doubt not I pray you, but your expectation shall be served, more godly and goodly than you will wish or desire, as hereafter you shall plainly perceive.

  14. Next, he devoured a couple of raw eggs "on account of his miserably weak stomach," a bowl of salad and a goodly lump of fresh cheese.

  15. Near the Seaside, and likewise on the Mediterrane are goodly Gardens full of Oringes, Citrons, and Lemons of divers sorts.

  16. But these others are our spiritual cousins; we have deep roots in this warm soil of Italy, which brought forth a goodly tithe of what is best in our own lives, in our arts and aspirations.

  17. The outflow from the springs ran through a ravine which furrowed the hillside to its foot, turned abruptly westward, and widened out into a goodly pool, where the cattle waded and drank.

  18. A few rods distant a goodly sized sailboat was moored, the passengers having already gone up the sloping bank and inland.

  19. At Christmas Cove this difficulty is overcome by a goodly sized pool into which the salt water is admitted at high tide, when the gates are closed and it is held until the time comes for changing it.

  20. How often in my boyhood, and even in more mature days, have I wished, like Moses, that I could see that "goodly mountain and Lebanon!

  21. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many Western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

  22. High lifted up were many lofty towers And goodly galleries far overlaid, Full of fair windows, and delightful bowers, And on the top a dial told the timely hours.

  23. Then at the goodly age of eighty-four he died in the autumn of 1892.

  24. The same season about the end of this discomfiture there was an English squire called Thomas Waltham, a goodly and a valiant man, and that was well seen, for of all that night he would nother fly nor yet yield him.

  25. Then the captains, as John Ball, Jack Straw and Wat Tyler, went throughout London and a twenty thousand with them, and so came to the Savoy in the way to Westminster, which was a goodly house and it pertained to the duke of Lancaster.

  26. For an ye believe him ye shall plainly be shamed, and die in this rock for pure hunger, and be eaten with wild beasts; and ye be a young man and a goodly knight, and I shall help you an ye will.

  27. Is it not written 'Goodly houses that ye builded not.

  28. I tell thee he is one of the brood of Satan, who have endeavoured to break up the godly peace of the saints, and fill this goodly land with blood and fire.

  29. This is the kind of statement which it is only respectable to receive with horror, but if the secrets of feminine hearts could be known it might prove that a goodly amount of this horror is assumed.

  30. I yield Thee praise for all Thy goodly gifts and I render Thee thanksgiving for all Thy bounties.

  31. Bless Them then, O my God, with every distinction and goodly gift which Thy knowledge may reckon within the domain of Thy power.

  32. Grant then, O Lord, such goodly gifts as would enable them to gain admittance into Thy blissful Paradise.

  33. It is He Who setteth the measure assigned to each and every thing and revealeth His goodly gifts and blessings in His sacred Book for the benefit of those who offer gratitude for His Cause.

  34. Shouldst Thou chastise me with Thy might, Thou wouldst assuredly be just in Thy decree; and wert Thou to bestow every goodly gift on me, Thou wouldst indeed be most generous and bountiful.

  35. Thy goodly gifts are unceasingly showered upon such as cherish Thy love and the wondrous tokens of Thy heavenly bounties are amply bestowed on those who recognize Thy divine Unity.

  36. Thy handiwork is unlike the work of anyone besides Thee, and Thy goodly gifts are unparalleled by the gifts of anyone other than Thyself.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    goodly company; goodly heritage; goodly number; goodly portion