goodly
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If you don’t pay at least a goodly chunk of your 2023 taxes by then, you will be penalized automatically, even if you file for an extension by Monday night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
"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
Maybe that works better when you’re breathing the same air as the actor — something that’s been impossible for a goodly while.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2021
His cloak was made of soft brown wool lined with sandsilk, a goodly garment.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Peace of conscience, righteousness, hope for eternity,—these are goodlier pearls than any that can be found in Ethiopia; and the man undertakes a journey to Jerusalem to try if he can find them there.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
Hoskuld was called, and was shown the child, and he thought, as others did, that he had never seen a goodlier or a more noble-looking child.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
Great power have I to make ready a goodlier throne, a higher one in Heaven.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Emily Hickey
Solomon in all his glory had been no goodlier sight; and if she toiled or spun to achieve it, her state, I should say, is by so much the more gracious.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
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
The goodliest lordshippes, maners, londes, and territories, are theyrs.
From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish
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
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