I wish to goodness I could be a glove upon that paw of yours.
Perhaps you will have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set it right.
Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?
If you will have the goodness to touch the bell, doctor, we will begin another investigation, in which, also, a bird will be the chief feature.
Well, I hope to goodnessthe house won’t be burgled during the night,’ said he.
Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable figure.
But when I got home Mother said: "Well, thankgoodness you 're back!
Mother said she guessed Fan would get over it, because she was young yet and, goodness knew!
I delighted in primitiveness and simplicity, where human baseness had the fewest opportunities to thrive, and where human goodness was the least likely to be spoilt by publicity.
But Lauretta's mother possesses qualities ofgoodness which proclaim her to be of a rare type of womanhood.
Do not forget that, out of your goodness and generosity, you have treated me with affection.
Nothing," was the reply, "but to thank your Lordships for your goodness to me.
We have all had lyes enuf of his Majestie before: his goodness in this will, I hope, return my friend Culloden to his old consistency, and make E.
Have the goodness to put aside your copies and your notes; you may keep all that for the case of Navarreins against the Hospitals.
Misfortune is a kind of talisman whose virtue consists in its power to confirm our original nature; in some men it increases their distrust and malignancy, just as it improves the goodness of those who have a kind heart.
Oh, if I had an angel's voice, And could be heard from pole to pole; I would to all the listening world Proclaim thy goodness to my soul.
Were I to recount his mercy and goodness to me even in the midst of all these hurries, I should never have done.
Margaret would have become a fiend under the mean shrew; but the holy influence of a good lady made a noble woman of her, and she became a pattern of goodness long after one rash but blameless freak was forgotten.
Yet all the while, like a low under-song, goes on his monotonous assertion of his own goodness and his own injuries.
The mad Capet, who fired the signal which started tho massacre of St. Bartholomew, believed that he was fulfilling the demands of goodness and orthodoxy.
But the forlorn hope of goodness never trouble themselves about rewards; they face the shadows of doom only as they face the squalor of their daily martyrdom.
To continually and forever unfold some new and wonderful features of goodness and grace towards the work of His hands.
Thus, with goodness and with love overflowing will God recompense the evil they have done Him and His true children.
God's eternal goodness and love, and come into the peace of God (Phil.
There was something grand, even enchanting and sublime, in the picture here spread out, presenting as it did the highest example of God's goodness and reality.
She was as trim a young craft then as ever spread sails, and as full of goodness and good looks.
And her sweet face lighted up with a smile, the true reflex of that goodness her heart was so full of.
Assad presented the paper to queen Margiana, who admired alike the sententiousness of the thoughts, and the goodness of the writing.
Upon which Dinarzade says, Dear sister, I am exceedingly obligated to the sultan, for it is to his goodness I owe the extraordinary pleasure I have in your stories.
Danhasch, a little heartened at the words of Maimoune, said, My dear lady, I will tell you nothing but what is true, if you will have but the goodness to hear me.
Then the goodness or badness is implanted in the motive, and the action in itself is looked upon as morally ambiguous.
The goodness of a marriage is proved by the fact that it can stand an "exception.
There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.
So closely is morality bound to the goodnessof the intellect.
The economy of goodness is the dream of the most daring Utopians.
For why in all the world should any one wish to be an optimist unless he had a God to defend who must have created the best of worlds if he himself be goodnessand perfection,--what thinker, however, still needs the hypothesis of a God?
Only the difference of views divides them from him, certainly no difference of goodness or badness; but men generally treat unjustly that which they do not like.
He was not a particularly good man, and still less was he a particularly wise one; but he represented something that exceeded the human standard in goodness and wisdom.
At the same time it is universally admitted that the truth or goodness of a doctrine could not attest the divine origin of a miracle.
After insulting his goodness by asking for a blessing, we insult his intelligence by specifying what that blessing shall be.
Perfect goodness is the performance of all duty, and of nothing beyond.
If doctrines, the truth and goodness of which are apparent, do not afford any evidence of divine revelation, how can doctrines which reason can neither discover nor comprehend attest the divine origin of miracles?
The Christian has the goodness to believe, while the sinner asks for evidence.
Involuntarily the words of the real editor in that beautiful tribute to the high soul they were praising came to the unreal editor's lips, and he quoted aloud to the Easy Chair: "'His love of goodness was a passion.
Thank goodness I haven't got to go down there tomorrow, as he seems to have had enough of me for the present, so I vote we all pay a visit to the ship.
They have taken most of the best fruit to which I was looking forward, but thank goodness they do not seem to care for pork.
Which tomb has been executed by means of the great saintliness, goodness and gratitude of Pope Pius V, a Pontiff and Holy Father truly most saintly, most blessed, and most worthy of long life.
That marvelous structure known as the Taj Mahal--India's noblest tribute to the grace and goodness of Indian womanhood--is sometimes said to be a monument to the memory of Nur Mahal.
Goodness me; it's that music thing which the Crooked Magician scattered the Powder of Life over," said Ojo.
A woman opened the door and, seeing Ojo in his white robe, exclaimed: "Goodness me!
Goodness knows whether I shall have a shilling at all when another chance comes round; but if I have I shall certainly spend it, and if I have not, I shall go in debt wherever I can raise a hundred pounds.
To be sure, ma'am, no lady could have behaved better through it than you have done, and goodness knows you have been tried hard.
Of old Lady Macleod I think I may say that she was a good woman;--that she was a good woman, though subject to two of the most serious drawbacks to goodness which can afflict a lady.
By the generosity of relatives and the goodness of neighbours as kind as ever breathed, our furniture was our own again, but what were we to do for a living?
I wrote to the owner of Five-Bob desiring to know if what I heard concerning his good fortune was correct, and he replied by return post: My dear little Syb, Yes, thank goodness it is all true.
Thank goodness I have never felt any humiliation on account of my mother, and felt none then, as she rose to greet Harold upon my introduction.
The un-courage of the former fears to believe in the innate goodness of mankind.
An observation which leads us towards the conclusion that the passion for goodness is a principle hardly secondary to the passion for truth.
It was not long before all came to admit that the soul of the big boy had in it a goodness and a valor that nothing could daunt.
The letter has that thorough goodness and that amplitude of dignity that were characteristics of Washington.
This was the first specimen we had met with of northern kindness; and, although we had heard a great deal of their unaffected goodness of heart, this act of civility made no slight impression upon us.
The trysail that had been partially hoisted was now set properly, and trusting to the goodness of our cause, guaranteed by the tried worthiness of our craft, we stretched away from the island, and stood for Bergen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
