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

"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

"But, good gracious," said one of the girls, "Milla has not dark hair; she is fair."

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

But, good gracious, Cicely, don't encourage me to gossip.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald