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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

From this play’s powerful moments could be made a goodly list.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022

But a goodly part of our experience which we find inexplicable must be like that.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Gape Sir, you have swallowed many a goodlier matter— The only casting for a crazie conscience.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont

Thorkell was a great man and a lordly; and no man was goodlier than Bolli, nor of gentler breeding; Thord Ingwin's son was the most discreet of them all, a wise man in the law.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker

Yet, great as was his skill, he was not therefore anywise goodlier of person or better favoured than Messer Forese.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

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

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

Nature herein has mocked The cunning artist's skill, who, in a rim Of purest silver sets his goodliest stone, Making the metal richer for the gem.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

We also went through the goodliest corn-fields that ever were seen in any country.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Thou wert the goodliest Knight that ever man has seen, and the truest lover that ever loved a woman.'

From The Book of Romance by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford