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  • And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
  • The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
  • If Erik's secrets cease to be Erik's secrets, it will be a bad lookout for a goodly number of the human race!
  • In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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  • The trouble is, if I have an office here, it would save my fledgling business a goodly sum of money, as I'd be able to use the space rent-free, and would only have to pay the cost of materials for refurbishing the office.
  • A friend of mine has a book which was published commercially in Malaya and which isn't even listed on Amazon, but he has been able to sell a goodly number in his local bookshops, despite that.
  • Niccholao Cornacchini was once a Citizen of ours, and a man of great wealth; who, among other his rich possessions in Camerata, builded there a very goodly house, which being perfected ready for painting: he compounded with Bruno and Buffalmaco who bicause their worke required more helpe then their owne, they drew Nello and The Decameron
  • Abila was a goodly sized town, with several tall watch towers and many buildings rising four stories, every last one roofed in slate. The Path of Daggers
  • Fair and bright now was the hall within, with its long and low windows goodly glazed, a green halling on the walls of Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  • From the expression on the faces of many of them I knew some professor had dragged his class down to the museum and a goodly number of the students wanted to be anywhere but looking at old books.
  • Then he went on a little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • This would be about 15 years ago when, in a former life, I was fortunate enough to be spending a goodly number of my working days at the Lake Nona club just outside Orlando in Florida.
  • It consists of a goodly proportion of those college educated people whose skills and vocations proliferate in a ‘post-industrial society’ … We are talking about scientists, teachers and educational administrators, journalists and others in the communication industries, psychologists, social workers, those lawyers and doctors who make their career in the expanding public sector, city planners and the staffs of the larger foundations and upper levels of the government bureaucracy, and so on …. Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories
  • Both involved situations where there was a goodly chunk of family money that could be got at through one vulnerable person. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • Moreover the goodmen and swains of the said township were no ill folk, but bold of heart, free of speech, and goodly of favour; and the women of them fair, kind, and trusty. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  • The movie version of the musical of Little Shop of Horrors was called Little Shop of Horrors, causing a goodly amount of confusion, especially in the home video market.
  • He would fain have carried us first to bathe in the bagnios of the cardin-hawks, which are goodly delicious places, and have us licked over with precious ointments by the alyptes, alias rubbers, as soon as we should come out of the bath. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • GRACILE, formerly collected in the tropical part of New Holland by Dr. Brown; and a very remarkable new species of the same curious genus, with an open narrow panicle, and little branches not unlike those of a young oat. 103 The river again formed a goodly continuous channel. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • I erect a fence of roast potatoes around the rim of the plate and then pile a goodly spoonful or two of every other vegetable on offer in the middle until the whole structure is in danger of collapse.
  • The time, however, passed agreeably in making excursions on the shore, where they found "good ground for corn and other garden herbs, with a great store of goodly oaks and walnut-trees, and chestnut-trees, ewe-trees and trees of sweetwood in great abundance, and great store of slate for houses, and other good stones"; or in receiving visits from the natives, who came on the ship in numbers. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
  • The lad she followed with puzzled and griefful eyes was of a goodly presence, and never goodlier than in his uniform. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
  • The fforest is for II. or III. myles vpon the skirts soe exceedingly wasted, as well by the inhabitants as other the borderers adiacent, that yt is grief to see soe many goodly trees to be spoiled, the vse whereof hath bene such as yt hath converted the tymber trees to Dotards, and that almost generally vpon the borders of the same fforest. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
  • A 4,000 year old love poem: "Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,'" the first line in the cuneiform tablet reads. Archive 2006-02-01
  • She was full six feet high, wore a man's great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
  • Why, you've got a nape like a goodly gentleman!
  • In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread. The Monastery
  • Sherkan and his men fell upon the infidels and cut off their retreat and tourneyed among the ranks, when lo, a cavalier of goodly presence opened a passage through the army of the Greeks and circled hither and thither amongst them, cutting and thrusting and covering the ground with heads and bodies, so that the infidels feared him and their necks bent under his blows. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
  • In another manner, some other religious incited a goodly number of sailors, who, having received their pay to go to Maluco, fled in a boat called "champan," and laid their course toward India. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, co
  • In sooth, the year in question had been very propitious to the immigrants; who, flocking in from eastern settlements in goodly numbers, were allowed to domiciliate themselves in their new homes, with but few exceptions, entirely unmolested by the savage foe. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
  • We see that he ordered Bibles from England, “and also six groce of Church Wardens,” which I am told is a long clay pipe, “that hath a goodly flavor and doth not bite the tongue.” Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
  • Alas, I would fain not sing before one that can pipe so well and hath heard so many goodly songs and ballads, ne'ertheless, an thou wilt have it so, I will do my best. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
  • The king rideth on a triumphant cart or wagon all gilded, which is drawen by 16. goodly horses: and this cart is very high with a goodly canopy ouer it, behind the cart goe 20. of his The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon,63 the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And the said witch was clad full fair, and had laid by her sloth and stupid pride, as meseemed; and her limbs were grown rounder and sleeker, and her skin fairer, so that to them that knew her not she might well seem to be a goodly woman. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • For every litre of petrol which pours from the pumps, 62p is levied by the government and that represents a goodly income for the government.
  • Alas, I would fain not sing before one that can pipe so well and hath heard so many goodly songs and ballads, ne'ertheless, an thou wilt have it so, I will do my best. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • The cousin stated that the hotel was clean and well run, the food excellent, of goodly quantity.
  • Augiift. ad Crefconium Grammaticum faith alfo ex - 44 prefly, That if there be among good miniftres one letter then an other, the Sacrament is no better given by the better; and it is no worfe gyven by an evell man, Ther is for this purpofe a goodly faying of Eufebius Emiilenus, which was much per - fecuted by the Aryans. Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters rel
  • In their opinion, he belonged to that goodly class of persons, who, having by hook or by crook, contrived to spend an hour in the Abbe of Weimar’s presence, afterwards abused the sacred narre of pupil. Maurice Guest
  • Atli said, “Ill it beseemed to thee to do this, though somewhat of wrong was between us; for thou wert wedded to me by the rede of thy kin, and dower paid I for thee; yea, thirty goodly knights, and seemly maidens, and many men besides; and yet wert thou not content, but if thou should rule over the lands King Budli owned: and thy mother-inlaw full oft thou lettest sit a-weeping.” The Story of the Volsungs
  • Working with the county cops, MPD quickly discovered Lindy had sunk a goodly portion of his $73,000 annual salary into land. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
  • The audience was of a goodly size.
  • But don't mind that - Helen puts you within 45 minutes of most of the trout in Georgia, and a goodly share of North Carolina's.
  • The actual point of confluence of these two rivers, the Chobe and the Leeambye, is ill defined, on account of each dividing into several branches as they inosculate; but when the whole body of water collects into one bed, it is a goodly sight for one who has spent many years in the thirsty south. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • Howsoever, pure water is best, and which (as Pindarus holds) is better than gold; an especial ornament it is, and very commodious to a city (according to [2908] Vegetius) when fresh springs are included within the walls, as at Corinth, in the midst of the town almost, there was arx altissima scatens fontibus, a goodly mount full of fresh water springs: if nature afford them not they must be had by art. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And moreover their women are for ever seeking whatso is fair and goodly, whatso is far-fetched and dear-bought, whereof we chapmen also thrive, as thou mayst well deem. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of My Novel — Complete
  • Hasan a steed of the best and equipped him in panoply and weaponed him with goodly weapons. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Can be responsible for the work of the finance assistant more and goodly.
  • I spent a goodly proportion of this afternoon upstairs at Artichoke, directly under the roof of the building, wrapping prints for the Bath Affordable Art Fair.
  • One of those is his calabrese and what he doesn't exhibit he sells to the Beggars' Arms for goodly sums.
  • All the night long they did nothing else, keeping their hands still upon the pot, but despatch, both on foot and horseback, leaden-sealed writs or letters, to wit, papal commissions commonly called bulls, to stop the boats; for the tailors and seamsters would have made of the stolen shreds and clippings a goodly sagbut to cover the face of the ocean, which then was great with child of a potful of cabbage, according to the opinion of the hay-bundle-makers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2
  • Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon -- The natural and very earnest wish of Moses to be allowed to cross the Jordan was founded on the idea that the divine threatening might be conditional and revertible. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • After all, before fighting games were popular, a goodly portion of arcade games were shooters, racing games, and side-scrolling platformers.
  • The Turke hath here fiue hundred Ianisaries, besides other souldiers continually in garison and pay, but his chiefe strength is of gallies which are about fiue and twenty or thirty very faire and furnished with goodly ordinance. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
  • And this I likewise might confirm of two elms, planted by me about 35 years since; which being little bigger than walking-staves, and set on the very brink of a ditch or narrow channel (not always full of water) wharfed with a wall of a brick and half in thickness, (to keep the bank from falling in) are since grown to goodly and equally spreading trees of near two foot diameter, solid timber, and of stature proportionable. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • He was a quiet, gentlemanly young fellow, blessed with a goodly share of Irish wit, and a rich vocabulary of jawbreaking words. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson
  • This goodly frame, the earth, was such a configuration, authored by God, and with wondrous messages for those who cared to examine the text.
  • This ornament then is of two sortes, one to satisfie & delight th'eare onely by a goodly outward shew fet vpon the matter with wordes, and speaches smothly and tunably running: another by certaine intendments or sence of such wordes & speeches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde: that first qualitie the Greeks called _Enargia_, of this word _argos_, because it geueth a glorious lustre and light. The Arte of English Poesie
  • All the night long they did nothing else, keeping their hands still upon the pot, but despatch, both on foot and horseback, leaden-sealed writs or letters, to wit, papal commissions commonly called bulls, to stop the boats; for the tailors and seamsters would have made of the stolen shreds and clippings a goodly sagbut to cover the face of the ocean, which then was great with child of Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • ` ` Peace with thy scurril jests! '' answered Edith, colouring deeply --- ` ` Think rather, that for the indulgence of thy mood thou hast lopped from this great enterprise one goodly limb, deprived the Cross of one of its most brave supporters, and placed The Talisman
  • Holy Abraham!" he exclaimed, "he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price -- but to carry him to our house! Ivanhoe
  • And Salabaetto being come to see her one evening, she greeted him gaily and gamesomely, and fell a kissing and hugging him, and made as if she were so afire for love of him that she was like to die thereof in his arms; and offered to give him two most goodly silver cups that she had, which Salabaetto would not accept, having already had from her (taking one time with another) fully thirty florins of gold, while he had not been able to induce her to touch so much as a groat of his money. The Decameron, Volume II
  • One of the most ingenious and economical of these contrivances, whereby, with a subtlety of argument worthy of the great trafficker in indulgences, Tetzel, who so raised Martin Luther's ire, they manage cheaply to transmit funds to heaven, is the paper dollar, strings of which are sold in the shops, looking exceedingly like goodly bunches of the silvery onion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside. The Iliad of Homer
  • Beyond this we take with us Willington, which gives name alio to a houfe and gentleman of a long and good delcent •, and Roftherne, the pa - rifh-church (impropriate and belonging to Chrift. church in Oxford, and a vicarage there), ftand - ing over a fpacious and goodly mere, whofe wafte waters help to enlarge the Bollin river; but we ttay to look more wefterly again to that great lordfliip, parilh, and precinft of Lymm, which reacheih down again to the Mcriey fide. The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire
  • It always seemed like a lot of PR gamesmanship from a goodly percentage of folks on both sides. The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic
  • My favours are the longing of the lover and the delight of the desirer; for I am goodly of shape, sweet of smile and graceful as the bending willow-wand or the rattan-cane375 or the stalk of the basil-plant; nor is there any can compare with me in loveliness, even as saith one of me, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Not much seems to have been written about this so far, but look for a goodly amount in the near future, as more people are brought out and the stories they tell become common knowledge.
  • Dear lady, said Leonard, the other is an image of thee, and even most like unto thee; but whiles clad in a scanty grey coat and barefoot, and whiles clad in a fair green gown goodly broidered, and broidered shoon; and whiles all mother-naked. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • But a goodly heritage has no worth save in diligent hands. The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories
  • So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
  • Following the Great Depression, when huge chunks of the Canadian population - including a goodly number of the formerly rich - were thrown into poverty, we changed our approach to such things.
  • £1500 is still a goodly sum.
  • Then I rose up and put my hand to my bosom (for Baudoin had given me the flasket ere we came to the perron): I spake in a loud voice, and it sounded wild and hard in the goodly hall: My lady, I said, thou art looking but pale now, and sick and downcast. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Whereupon a goodly and well-armed Ship was prepared for her, with full furnishment of all necessary provision, and accompanied with an honourable traine both of Lords and Ladies, as also most costly and sumptuous accoustrements; commending her to the mercy of heaven, in this maner was she sent away. The Decameron
  • She was full six feet high, wore a man’s great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Guy Mannering
  • “Holy Abraham!” he exclaimed, “he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price — but to carry him to our house! — damsel, hast thou well considered? — he is a Ivanhoe
  • It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
  • Laski spent a goodly part of his lecturing life in American universities.
  • Almost every party game these days comes with a goodly share of surprise gifts that might range all the way from key chains and cuff links, to stationery items and kitchen utensils.
  • And she, being subject in love to a god and to a man exceeding goodly, brought forth twin sons in seven-gated Thebe. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length. Random Thoughts on Hair
  • Within, upon the first floor above the street, up a wide carven stair, he showed them to a fair room, light and airy, with goodly hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured. The Lord of the Rings
  • A goodly portion of this land is valuable property near Austin, the capital of Texas.
  • Blendtec - a company that manufactures blenders and produces a series called demolish the iPad a few months back, which must have gone straight to the heart of a goodly number of Apple fanboys and girls. Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • I avail to stop it nor turn it shorewards, till it stopped with me at a great and goodly city, grandly edified and containing much people. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The names of the eldest were called Cush and Ham, two goodly youths, his first-born sons. Codex Junius 11
  • One week Playboy contains a goodly jolt of diacetylmorphine. Chicago Reader
  • Messer Ansaldo, marvelling not a little, rose, and having called the necromancer: -- "I am minded," quoth he, "that thou see what goodly gain I have gotten by thine art. The Decameron, Volume II
  • For it was in his mind a goodly thing to pay a usuress with base coins. Privy Seal His Last Venture
  • An additional reason for the pogrom was the reputed wealth of a goodly number of the Jewish families of Nizhni-Novgorod. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
  • Holy words & pure & goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
  • Queen, not young maids, but stalworth women, well-grown, and two of them hard-featured; the third, tall, black-haired, and a goodly-fashioned body. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  • There also were the matters of Silver-dale duly ordered: the Men of the Wolf would have had the Woodlanders dwell with them in the fair-builded stead, and take to them of the goodly stone houses there what they would; but this they naysaid, choosing rather to dwell in scattered houses, which they built for themselves at the utmost limit of the tillage. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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  • My sister's been storing it for me for the past couple of months and she's getting antsy about getting it out of her house - understandable, since it takes up a goodly chunk of space.
  • The well-known paper boards of the three-volume novel no longer vulgarized the place; a goodly array of standard works, well-bound, showed a more respectable and conventional ambition.
  • For my spirit truly is wrathful, that is in my breast; and if I among men would make boast, with gladness, with game, with goodly words, my spirit would wrath himself, and become still, and deprive me of my sense, and my wise words fore-close, then were I dumb of every sentence. Roman de Brut. English
  • “Here is a goodly summons!” said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh. Castle Dangerous
  • But when the sun was wending to the time of the loosing of cattle, then at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny. Book IX
  • It was not without pleasure that she saw her kind hostess arm herself with a deep plate and a tin dipper, and carefully taking off the pot-cover so that no drops might fall on the hearth, proceed to ladle out a goodly supply of what Ellen knew was that excellent country dish called pot-pie. The Wide, Wide World
  • It may take us a goodly while to get this matter done.
  • She affects Victorian-melodrama attitudes, tromps about like a regiment of dragoons, utters horror-film laughs, and spits out a goodly number of her lines.
  • Have to practice creative ability and the orientation ability etc. goodly.
  • The holidays were fantastic - catching up with a veritable swag of rellies, opening a goodly haul of pressies and gorging myself on many a big dinner and barbeque meal.
  • The needlewoman's workbasket holds further associations with home, hearth, mothering and goodly housewifery.
  • But the ram for me alone my goodly-greaved company chose out, in the dividing of the sheep, and on the shore I offered him up to Zeus, even to the son of Cronos, who dwells in the dark clouds, and is lord of all, and I burnt the slices of the thighs. Book IX
  • The brownies vary in size from a few ounces to goodly specimens of 2lb or more.
  • The draw-bridges are romantic to a degree; and there is a dungeon, that gives one a delightful idea of living in the days of soccage and under such goodly tenures. Highways & Byways in Sussex
  • Now, men are always noted for quarrelling about not getting enough of the goodly stuff.
  • Considering that Switzerland spends a goodly span of time every year under snow, Christian Roeschli began to think of warmer climes in which to continue his life.
  • To stay ye no longer herein (concludes Laneham) I dare say he hath as fair a library of these sciences, and as many goodly monuments both in prose and poetry, and at afternoon can talk as much without book, as any innholder betwixt Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • Holy Abraham!" he exclaimed, "he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price -- - but to carry him to our house! Ivanhoe. A Romance
  • You take the circular tortilla and then put a goodly dollop of salsa, or cream or whatever you like in the middle, some strips of chicken with onion and bell pepper, roll it up, fold over the ends and start enjoying.
  • From Clifton to a pleasant plaine alonge a goodly roughe Deed of Entail
  • And so it was that our canoe slipped gently from beneath us, but not without first lurching sideways to let a goodly amount of the Wye flood into it such that it sank a foot or two beneath the surface of the river shortly after bidding us adieu.
  • In which respect, before such a notorious shame be received, and in so goodly an assembly, as now are heere present: it were much better for him or them that have the Brawne, to confesse it in private to this honest Priest, and I will abstaine from urging anie such publike proofe. The Decameron
  • After this we went on side by side and never a word betwixt us until we had reached that pleasant champain country where flowed the river shaded by goodly trees, in whose branches fluttered birds of a plumage marvellously coloured and diverse, and beneath which bloomed flowers as vivid; insomuch that my lady brake forth ever and anon into little soft cries of delighted wonder. Black Bartlemy's Treasure
  • ` ` Holy Abraham! '' he exclaimed, ` ` he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price --- but to carry him to our house! Ivanhoe
  • For to oppose him who divided the person of Christ into two, he confounded his natures into one — his delirant folly being confirmed by that goodly assembly, the second at Ephesus. Christologia
  • It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
  • Alone at home in the evening, after splitting a goodly portion of a cord of firewood I am hungry, but tired.
  • The vole, which is not a rat, is a goodly sight, and the smooth round dormouse (or sleep-mouse, as the children call it) is a favourite gift imprisoned in an old tea-pot. John Keble's Parishes
  • A goodly sized "chaw" bulged in his withered cheek. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code
  • I spent a goodly proportion of yesterday working in the garden replanting some tubs and planting up some new ones.
  • But he seems to have a goodly supply of coin at his command, Fitz, and that can make many things possible. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • And if your eyes saw her earth, and the adornment thereof with bloom, and the purfling of it with all manner blossoms, and the islands of the Nile and how much is therein of wide spread and goodly prospect, and if you bent your sight upon the Abyssinian The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The goodly object of his ecumenic imperialism, therefore, was to carry out the moral idea of Christianity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Now they gather themselves together and go down toward Utterhay, and make a brave show, what with the sumpter-horses, and the goodly array of the four ladies, and the glittering war-gear of the men-at-arms; and Sir Hugh and Sir Arthur displayed their pennons as they went. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • We added figs, asparagus, tomatoes, plums, walnuts, cheeses and a goodly amount more wine.
  • Yet being subtill, crafty, and cautelous, he wrought so on the flexible nature of Ferando, that hee brought his wife with him divers dayes to the Monasterie; where they walked in the goodly Garden, discoursing on the beatitudes of eternall life, as also the most holy deedes of men and women, long since departed out of this life, in mervailous civill and modest manner. The Decameron
  • Goodly-lord-oh, joy … deep, deep joy-de-lode! on February 7, 2007 at 7: 22 am | Reply Yank Mountain Mountie Daft Punk « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • You defang a goodly quantity of liberal opposition by deeming passport or driving licence as base ID, and you can associate the data you like without giving them the opportunity to oppose you.
  • The room was a goodly size, and books filled shelves reaching, in places, from floor to ceiling.
  • The modern bibliophiles who know what it is to revel in the enjoyment of a goodly library, luxuriant in costly bindings and rich in bibliographical rarities, who are fully susceptible to the delights and exquisite sensibilities of that sweet madness called bibliomania, will readily comprehend the multiplied pleasures of that early and illustrious bibliophile in the seclusion of Auckland Palace; he there ardently applied his energies and wealth to the accumulation of books; and whilst engaged in this pleasing avocation, let us endeavor to catch a glimpse of him. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • There was in this young lord, together with a goodly person, a kind of urbanity and innate courtesy, which both won the Queen, and too much took up the people to gaze on the new-adopted son of her favour; and as I go along, it will not be amiss to take into observation two notable quotations; the first was a violent indulgence of the Queen FRAGMENTA REGALIA

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