goodly
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The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
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
From this play’s powerful moments could be made a goodly list.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 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
Well, it would seem I have a goodly stock of -wildfire, but still .
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
In all the army there was not a goodlier person than he.
From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin
King Solomon walked a thousand times Forth of his garden-close; And saw there spring no goodlier thing, Be sure, than the same little rose.
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
King Harald said that was an easy matter; for they must say that no goodlier a man had in their days come out of Iceland.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
My affections are then most humble; I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
I have no wish to see a goodlier man.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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 set his heart to the goodliest, Snow that snows in the mill-water; Nine little kisses for all the rest, An hundredfold for the king's daughter.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But when he stood and leaned against his horse's neck and smiled at us, methought he was by far the goodliest man that ever I had looked upon.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
"The delay hath cost Her Majesty her goodliest ship and us our lives and our long-cherished honour."
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
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The Tempest
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"Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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