good gracious
Example Sentences
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“You were scratching your head and saying, good gracious what are they doing there? It shows you how tough those people are.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2017
My gracious, my good gracious," laments a homeward-bound G.I. in Brewsie and Willie, "Oh my good gracious, oh my good gracious . . . my good gracious.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Musha, good gracious, woman alive, if that’s all’s ailing you, where’s the need to be so exact?” said Hugh.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
Why, good gracious, child," she said, "what have you come at this hour of the day for?
From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
"Oh, good gracious I are we there already?" cried the old lady, rummaging her pockets for her ticket, which Leuthold fortunately picked up from the floor and handed to her.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von