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Example sentences for "good number"

  • Heard a good number of my scholars testify for Jesus, thank God.

  • Upon this the Fishers and a good number of others, nearly twenty in all, withdrew from the Eldership.

  • It is astonishing how few birds' nests are found, though in some places a good number of small flutterers are seen.

  • I treated them to supper--in fact, I am obliged to feed all strangers, as well as a good number of the caravan.

  • The Tuaricks possess a good number of these useful animals, brought from Soudan, of a finer breed than those at Mourzuk.

  • Keep, therefore, in your "odd and end" box a good number of union links, made as shown in the above illustration.

  • I suppose you conveyed the hint to a good number of others?

  • He buys cod and ling, and sends them away fresh, I think, and he buys a good number of haddocks and smokes them.

  • Some of them went south, I daresay, and a good number of them went to the home fishing.

  • A good number, sir," replied the young man, "but I did not stay to count them.

  • That shall we, beyond doubt, Sir William," replied the other, while a good number of the soldiers stood round and listened.

  • Successful raids in the vicinity of Wieltje and Nieuport resulted in the capture of a good number of prisoners.

  • East of Rheims the French were successful in minor operations in which they captured a good number of prisoners.

  • North of the Ancre the British continued to make progress, occupying without difficulty a German trench some 600 yards long and taking a good number of prisoners.

  • I believed myself for a long time that there was something true in all the display of peace and happiness which I saw reflected in the faces of a good number of nuns.

  • Bows and Arrows, and above four hundred Chineses, of those that dwelt in the Island, besides a good Number of those that came to Trade taken into Pay; but many more Compell'd than Voluntiers.

  • He sent them a good Number of Carcoas, which carry'd them over to his Dominions, and soon after assign'd them a convenient Place to build their Houses and Churches.

  • That a good Number of Brass Sakers, and other great Guns might be brought in the Carcoas, from the Fort of Amboyna, and the Kings of Sian, and Tydore.

  • Here, in the principal chapel of the Vescovado, he painted a story of St Martin, and a good number of pictures in the old Duomo, now pulled down, including a portrait of Pope Innocent VI.

  • Being thus on very friendly terms with the king, he painted a good number of pictures for him in the chamber which King Alfonso I.

  • We have a good number already, and there must be as many more, from what I saw on the island; but they stow pretty closely, and we must make the best of our way to the Seychelles or some other place to dispose of them.

  • However, we must look out to avoid the contingency, and if we can take the fellows by surprise, we may manage to get hold of a good number of slaves.

  • I have a good number of sonnets for The House of Life still in MS.

  • Ciboule, and a good number of determined men, he rushed towards Gabriel.

  • It astonishes me, for I expected a good number.

  • The latter, when he disliked people, exhibited his antipathy, as we have already said, by an impertinently aggressive manner, which had before now occasioned a good number of duels.

  • Giuliano, there are scenes from the life of that Saint, with a good number of figures, and a dog in foreshortening that was much extolled.

  • The mission was not very successful, though the elder Dudley had now a good number of French prisoners in his hands, captured in Acadia or on the adjacent seas.

  • Giovanni Evangelista at Parma; and he has made a good number of figures in the round and of the size of life for many niches on the outer side of S.

  • Peter Martyr with a good number of very beautiful figures, wherein it is evident that Benvenuto departed considerably from his first manner, making it bolder and less laboured.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black water; good and faithful servant; good appetite; good bargain; good bearer; good breakfast; good cheere; good citizen; good courage; good doctor; good face; good fortune; good head; good horses; good intention; good land; good letter; good one; good order; good policy; good seaman; good soldier; good supper; good works; goodly company; goodly heritage