goodly

"The last time we had goodly numbers... was round about 2017, so it's great to see them now."

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

I also disappeared for a goodly while into Stephen Amidon’s taut domestic thriller “Locust Lane,” which is just coming out this month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

“For what more august, more charming and useful, than the culture and preservation of such goodly plantations: That shade to our grand-children give,” the British forester John Evelyn wrote in the 1660s, quoting Virgil.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Grainger made sense because his wind band music usefully employed a goodly number of winds included in the 32 young musicians, and because you can’t have too many winds in a band.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Well I knew Gunnar, our king, and tonight I thought he had come back to us from Valhalla, goodlier yet and mightier than ever, as one who has feasted with the Asir might well be.

From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

And thence down many a shining street they passed, Each one appearing goodlier than the last, Cool with the presence of innumerous trees And fountains playing before palaces.

From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson

In all the army there was not a goodlier person than he.

From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Bank it had none, but its margin was the lawn, to which it imparted a goodlier freshness.

From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

Wouldst thou, Quintius, have me a debtor ready to owe thee Eyes, or if earth have joy goodlier any than eyes?

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis

Virginia “is wonderfull fertile and very rich,” he told the company, with “a goodly River called Patomack, upon the borders whereof there are grown the goodliest Trees.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017

From the outside Satan can see "higher than that wall a circling row / Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011

Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

He's made her bed to the goodliest, Wind and hail in the mill-water; A grass girdle for all the rest, A girdle of arms for the king's daughter.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

He's ta'en his leave at the goodliest, Broken boats in the mill-water; Golden gifts for all the rest, Sorrow of heart for the king's daughter.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne