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Example sentences for "good hour"

  • For in that you boil the herbs but a quarter of an hour, that the colour may be pale: But in this, where the deepness of the colour is not regarded, you boil them a good hour, that you may get all the vertue out of them.

  • It will be near half an hour before the water begin to boil so: And from their beginning to do so, they must boil a good hour.

  • Since I have caused the wort to be boiled a good half hour; since again I boil it a good hour, and it is much the better; because the former Ale tasted a little Raw.

  • After a while we heard a shot, and a good hour later, when the camp was pitched, Tundup came back laden with as much of the flesh of his victim as he could carry.

  • A strong south wind blew, and rolled the waves to the shore, where I sat a good hour, drawing and making observations.

  • After a good hour's conversation they went out again and made a tour round my tent, but the furious Takkar would not let them approach the door.

  • But in a good hour I fell in with another of the like condition with mine, though for the rest, a poet, and therefore of a more disordered spirit.

  • As soon as the Child is born, the Father or some Friend apply themselves to an Astrologer to enquire, whether the Child be born in a prosperous Planet, and a good hour or in an evil.

  • At this time none will work, until their Astrolagers tell them, it is a good hour to handle their Tools.

  • They acquaint them also with the good hour of the New year, they are to begin to work.

  • You come in a good hour, graceful as an Apollo, to comfort a miserable old man; can you assure me that, when I pass out of this world, I shall depart likewise at a propitious time?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstract idea; good advice; good brother; good common school education; good constitution; good courage; good deed; good evidence; good face; good fishing; good general; good mistress; good offices; good only; good people; good price; good reading; good reason; good roads; good sailor; good share; good strong; good turn; good turns; good will toward men; good youth