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Example sentences for "good"

Lexicographically close words:
gonta; gonter; gooan; gooas; goobers; gooda; goodby; goodbye; goode; goodes
  1. Troilus and Cressida is regarded as a translation from Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is founded on Ovid's Epistles.

  2. Had he been encouraged by the German Court he would have been as powerful for good in German literature during the eighteenth century, as Voltaire was powerful for evil in France.

  3. The chief Moralities were Everyman, Lusty Juventus, Good Counsel, and Repentance.

  4. The religion of Humanism in Italy went to such lengths that many seemed to lose not only their belief but also their good sense, as they considered it vulgar to talk of the Deity in the language of the Bible.

  5. We humbly commit ourselves to the same good providence this night, that we may sleep in quiet under Thy protection, and wake, if it be Thy will, in the morning in renewed life and strength.

  6. The altar piece is of black marble inlaid with a milk white cross of white marble; which is plain and has a good effect.

  7. Lord Bishop of Durham (late of Bristol) for promoting so good a design is disposed and ready to give the sum of 400 pounds towards the Endowment of the new intended Vicarage, &c.

  8. And he was pleased to lay his Commands upon me to make Application to persons the most likely to contribute to that good Work.

  9. He preached upon the subject of being bettered by afflictions, which affected His Majesty so much that he desired the sermon, and assured him that he would do something very good for him.

  10. To endeavour to please a man merely, is a different thing from endeavouring to please him as a wise and good man, i.

  11. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning the date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him.

  12. And that person is he who is good at calculation--the arithmetician?

  13. For the good man is the able man, and he is the true man.

  14. And if you will answer me, I think that I can put you in the way of approaching the subject: You would admit, would you not, that there are good runners?

  15. And I think that this is the only good point about me, for I am full of defects, and always getting wrong in some way or other.

  16. But, my good fellow, he has been back again.

  17. Dusk found me still at my post, armed with a pair of good binoculars.

  18. Good evening, doctor," he said--and his voice was pleasant and unexpectedly light in tome.

  19. But I raced furiously on and by great good luck overtook it near the Dock Station.

  20. Since I must leave England to-night, the model must be destroyed, and unfortunately a good collection of bacilli has already suffered the same fate.

  21. He had supposed her to be a Frenchwoman, but an unmarried French girl of good family does not make late calls, even upon a medical man, unattended.

  22. Finishing my bitter, I ordered two glasses of good brandy and placed one before "Le Balafre.

  23. From the good fellow Casimir I learned that a certain dancer appearing at one of our Montmartre theatres had written to the Grand Duke craving the honour of his autograph--and enclosing her photograph.

  24. But I had not overlooked this possibility and I had dismounted at a good distance from the house and had left the "Indian" in someone's front garden.

  25. I had good reason to know that their system of espionage was efficient; and the slipshod way is ever the wrong way.

  26. I was referring to the joker who gave so good an imitation of my voice that even you were deceived.

  27. My good man," I said--"are you a member of the suite of the late Grand Duke?

  28. In the garage I had placed a good suit of clothes and other necessities, and by telephone I had secured a room at a West-End hotel.

  29. Two more were employed in watching the Hindu servant and one in watching my good friend Casimir.

  30. I was desperately anxious to get back to my flat, though it is not good to take hashish two days running; but I wanted to see what they would do to the poor fellow, for I had heard bad rumours about Thuba Mleen.

  31. Once Arleon, for the sake of a rhyme, had made war upon Estabonn; and an evil king was overthrown, and honour and glory won; from such queer motives does good sometimes accrue.

  32. And I had a liking too for the tender way in which they often spoke of Durl and Duz, for it is good that men should love their native cities and the little hills that hold those cities up.

  33. When he pressed me for my reason in asking him this, I said that the field had seemed to me such a good place to hold a pageant in.

  34. After that I made up a good fire, and sat down and partook of the pot of dreams.

  35. Thus, Pliny mentions a celebrated wine which took its name from Opimius, in whose consulate it was made, and was preserved good to his time (a period of nearly 200 years).

  36. Gin, rum, or whisky may be substituted for brandy in this recipe, but not with an equally good effect.

  37. Benot had announced the change in the cast, and people looked at me in perfect stupefaction: "Good heavens!

  38. There, however, when with my heartiest thanks we parted from our good Samaritan, the Dietz family, with dismayed faces, received us.

  39. Every theatre was to give a performance on the same day, and a ticket purchased was good at any one of them.

  40. Whose bark was like a cambric needle, and who, within five minutes after her arrival, challenged to deadly combat my beloved Bertie, who weighed good four pounds.

  41. It was asking a good deal of him to trust his fate entirely, blindly to me.

  42. He had a wide mouth, good teeth, and a funny pair of eyes.

  43. It happened that one of us had very good limbs, one medium good, and the third had apparently walked on broom-sticks.

  44. I'll wager a hat to a hair-pin you'll be turning a good head of hair gray over some nonsense of the kind--good Lord!

  45. He was wonderfully versatile, but though versatility is a requisite for any really good actor, yet for some mysterious reason it never meets with great success outside of a foreign theatre.

  46. No nation, not even the French, exceeds them in true politeness or good breeding.

  47. If Barbara Comyn revealed to her good aunt the cause of her fright and consequent illness, it is very certain that Miss Henny kept the secret.

  48. I knowed the said girl at once by her good looks, and the old fellow by his grumpy-yallow frontispiece.

  49. But on top o' that, the weather-glass is fell a good bit since four bells.

  50. Hows'ever, things went on till we'd crossed the line a good while; the leftenant was making his way with the girl at every chance.

  51. Half the good management and efficient activity that served to elect Jefferson would have sufficed to defeat him.

  52. Except himself and his married niece in Russia, there remains no representative of a family which England has good cause to hold in grateful remembrance.

  53. He was, in truth, a worthy and good man; somewhat narrow of mind and bigoted of creed, it may be, but utterly incapable of committing an ungenerous or dishonorable action.

  54. To exercise human love is to be good, but they no longer know it, and what is worse, a thousand times worse, they constantly destroy in me and mine the desire to be good, good in the sense of their own Master.

  55. When the young doctor returned from Coimbra, he saw her there more than once--more than once; certainly, more often than was good for him.

  56. You believed in my good fortune in the old days, do you now doubt this true story?

  57. Are you taking good care of the doctor's books Herr Conrad?

  58. You wield a good blade, but to attack Navarrete is suicide.

  59. Spite of the other's invitation, the smith remained standing and with downcast eyes, began: "I am not good at talking.

  60. You are my good angel and must remain so, now look here.

  61. What we demand is fair pay for good work.

  62. How rarely is the good man permitted to enjoy the blessing of mass.

  63. He was gazing anxiously at the floor, for he had good reason to be troubled, though the reflection that he had been alone with the king, and the unprecedented act had occurred without witnesses, somewhat soothed him.

  64. Yonder good dame will take care of Lelaps for me.

  65. No high aim, no desire to accomplish good and great things in wider spheres, influenced the thoughts and actions of this couple.

  66. This was a new and unexpected piece of good fortune.

  67. Better be a good trooper, than a mediocre artist!

  68. There are very good reasons, to be sure, for dressing neatly and even for dressing in accord with the fashion, so long as the prevailing styles are not harmful.

  69. As a rule good health prevails throughout pregnancy; it would be enjoyed even more frequently if many prospective mothers did not think so much about the fact that they are pregnant.

  70. It is a good rule, furthermore, at whatever time of day the sensation of nausea may occur, to lie down immediately.

  71. Very good reasons are assigned for the view that more protein is needed than just enough to counterbalance the tissue waste.

  72. Otherwise she may suffer because of their dissensions, for, if the doctor is accustomed to one procedure and the nurse to another, misunderstandings may occur, although both methods yield equally good results.

  73. It is well worth while to provide them if one desires good nursing, for no attendant can do her best when she must continuously bend over a very low bed.

  74. Frequently, it is a good plan to remain until the infant is four weeks old, but the majority of patients are dismissed at a somewhat earlier date.

  75. Attempts to stop the perspiration are always ill advised; rather should this function be encouraged by keeping the skin in good condition with baths and warm clothing.

  76. Although hot foot-baths have sometimes been thought to cause miscarriage, there is no good reason for believing they ever do.

  77. On good authority, we are informed that eighty thousand unlawful abortions are performed annually in New York, in spite of a possible penalty of four years in the State prison.

  78. The evidence thus far adduced, though not absolutely conclusive, gives good reason to believe that "the waters" are secreted by the inner side of the sac which incloses the fetus.

  79. So long as the child is in good condition there is no urgent need of this operation.

  80. Such then is the influence of the mind over the body that anyone who wishes to cultivate good health must correct the faulty habit of always thinking of herself.

  81. But there are exceptions to this very good rule.

  82. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more.

  83. The guest is bidden to be of good cheer--that the fates will take care of him.

  84. Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed.

  85. They here rummaged some drawers and boxes, but discovered only a few papers, of no importance, and some good coin, silver and gold.

  86. It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.

  87. My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature.

  88. Whether it escaped the flames by good fortune or by bad, yet remains to be seen.

  89. The same moment that Voltigius related this, there came a Bedouin riding in through the gate on a good horse.

  90. But for all that she never told them whence she had come, or who she was, and they understood that she would not have taken it in good part had they questioned her.

  91. Now the man came up to the shepherd and said to him: 'Good man, help me, and lend me a little fire!

  92. He hardly dared venture within sight of the potter, who complained that he was in the habit of throwing stones at his fragile wares, and would have driven him away with a good beating.

  93. But soon they began to move about and take possession of all the good things which Herod offered them.

  94. It is a good distance away, but if we ride we certainly will not get there until after midnight.

  95. No good will come of it,' said Saint Peter.

  96. This seemed to him a very good shot, and he boasted of it to any one who would listen to him.

  97. What put it into his head to try and help these bees, who can take such good care of themselves without him, and who can sting him at that?

  98. But no one cared to show that he was afraid, and everyone told the Emperor that this was a good omen.

  99. Well," said the mother, "have you had a good rest?

  100. Tom Sawyer would have been a worthy member of the Bob's Hill crowd and shared their good times and thrilling adventures with uncommon relish.

  101. I know it is sacred," said the Drought, "but what good will that do?

  102. The bees and the lilies have requited his good deeds," he whispered to himself.

  103. But the soldier still held in his hand the lily which he had broken off at the grotto entrance; and while he was thinking of his good fortune, a bee that had been hidden in its chalice flew towards him and buzzed around his head.

  104. He was armed with a sword and battle-club, and rode a good horse.

  105. A good aneroid is so delicate that it will register the difference in pressure caused by raising it from the floor to the table, where it has a couple of feet less of air-column resting upon it.

  106. A good filter bed should not pass more than from two to three gallons per hour for every square foot of surface, and it must therefore have a large area.

  107. If the valve is a good fit and the float is of the correct weight, the petrol will never rise higher than the tip of the jet G.

  108. This velocity would compare favourably with that of a good many expresses on certain railways that we could name.

  109. Hang an empty "inner tube" of a pneumatic tyre over a nail and inflate it, and you will get a good illustration of the principle.

  110. By listening through a stethoscope the doctor is able to tell whether the valves are in good order.

  111. There are several other good types of air-gun, all of which employ the principles described above.

  112. A person who has a "good ear" for music is presumably one whose Corti rods are very perfect.

  113. The low-geared machine shows to disadvantage on the flat, but is a good hill-climber.

  114. Fifty words a minute is about the limit speed that a good operator can maintain.

  115. Steam is a good servant, but a terrible master.

  116. If the walls are what are called "good conductors" of heat, they will transmit the agitation through them to any surrounding substance.

  117. Addington, at this period, had a good deal of intercourse with Pitt, who became Chancellor of the Exchequer at the age of twenty-three, and whose brilliant success in parliament evidently stimulated his friend to political pursuits.

  118. That I was in possession of the government by a good right from God and man.

  119. Besides, when Bull is called upon to make an ass of himself on such occasions, he seems for the most part to have a due appreciation of the fact, while Jonathan's imperturbability and apparent good faith are quite sublime.

  120. His friends advised him to consult the college tutor, who failed not to give him some good advice, and hoped the warning would not be thrown away.

  121. The soldiers bathed together and exchanged their rations, and the officers were on equally good terms.

  122. The metaphor is not good for much, for the drone can sting too, and does nothing but sting.

  123. It had the appearance and look of a right good and virtuous man, bore wings, was surrounded with light on all sides, and by the angels of Heaven.

  124. My dear old Constancy had the accomplishment, not at all common to chargers, of going admirably in harness; and I had from the first enjoined upon Wood to get him into as good condition as possible.

  125. Unwilling to hurt her, though hardly in good appetite, he sat down at the table.

  126. The good lady had far more regard than the owners of it for the library, and was delighted with the pains I was taking to re-arrange and clean it.

  127. I misdoubt me much, however, if you will find her without great conflict and suffering between, for the Powers of Darkness will be against you; though I have good hope that you will overcome at last.

  128. No one follows me there; not even Mrs. Blakesley, good soul!

  129. But Karl soon reassured her; and a few good blows of the axe revealed a very different core to that which Teufelsbürst supposed to be in it.

  130. But what was the good of those accounts after they were over and done with?

  131. All the good of life seemed for the time departed, and their souls lived but as leafless trees that had forgotten the joy of the summer, and whom no wind prophetic of spring had yet visited.

  132. She does not seem in good health," he rejoined.

  133. I replied that I had heard nothing of it; that I did not think my father had influence or money enough to procure me one, and that I feared I should have no such good chance of distinguishing myself.

  134. With speedy, noiseless steps, we made our way to the park, and across it to the door in the fence, where Wood was waiting for us, old Constancy pawing the ground with impatience for a good run.

  135. And I had good hopes that, if we met in the day, the same consequences would follow as had followed long ago--namely, that she would sleep at night.

  136. He's a very good artist," said the Senator mildly.

  137. You will want patience--a good deal of patience," said the attendant mournfully.

  138. Gerald Burton hesitated: it was really kind of this good fellow to feel so much for a stranger's distress.

  139. We are not as omnipotent as our enemies make us out to be, but still we can do a good deal, and we could do a good deal more were it not for the Press!

  140. A good many of my pensioners have been dangerous customers in their time--but now?

  141. What a good thing it was that this English lawyer was coming to relieve them all from a weight and anxiety which was becoming, to the Senator himself, if not to the two younger people, quite intolerable.

  142. She was such a good servant to Jack: he is--he was--so fond of her.

  143. And though I've given a good deal of thought to it during the last few hours--I can't form any theory yet as to why the Poulains are lying.

  144. I hear nothing but good of the way he does his very difficult work.

  145. I suppose you have a good many Americans this year?

  146. As for you, my boy, I hope you've secured a good room outside, eh?

  147. His kind, fatherly heart went out to her with a good deal of affection, and yes, of esteem.

  148. In fact, a good many French provincial people come up here, year after year, for the winter.

  149. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  150. Charles, in his real concern and good nature, would go home with her; there was no preventing him.

  151. It was on this point that she had hoped to engage Anne's good offices with Mr Elliot.

  152. It was really expected to be a good one, and Captain Wentworth was very fond of music.

  153. The child had a good night, and was going on well the next day.

  154. The farmer who skillfully employs as a fertilizer a peat containing a good proportion of nitrogen, may thus expect to get from it results similar to what would come from the corresponding quantity of nitrogen in guano or stable manure.

  155. The principle is, however, a good one, though his machinery is only applicable to earthy or pitchy, and not to very fibrous peat.

  156. The retorts must be of a good conducting material; therefore cast iron is better than clay.

  157. From a good fresh-water peat we obtain, by this treatment, a yellow liquid, more or less deep in tint, the taste of which is very slight and scarcely definable.

  158. Although in the agricultural papers, numerous accounts of the efficacy of such mixtures are given, we do not learn from them whether these bodies exert any such good effect upon the peat itself, as to warrant the trouble of making a compost.

  159. The bog is laid dry by drains and the surface is cleared of bushes, roots, and grass-turf, down to good peat.

  160. When dry they are dense and of good quality, but not better than the same raw material yields by simple moulding.

  161. They claim to "make fuel equal to the best English Cannel coal," and really do make a very good peat, though with a rather complicated apparatus.

  162. It is all nonsense, you know, sir; no good in it.

  163. Charlatans such as I have just left behind me do not make away with good citizens with impunity.

  164. I was therefore but a few paces behind her, which distance I took good care to preserve.

  165. They had made no effort to regain the ring, and I felt that my rashness had stood me in good stead.

  166. Well, well; I expended some very good advice upon you.

  167. HOW many tempted by the golden ore, Have taken wives whose slips they know before; And this good man the lady chaste believed, So truly well she managed and deceived.

  168. Some knowledge of good company he'd got; A charming voice and manner were his lot; And if we may disclose the mystick truth, 'Twas Cupid who preceptor made the youth.

  169. The friendship stood the youth in good stead, for when he was afterwards driven from home by his brethren, Agesilaus welcomed him in Laconia, and was very kind to him.

  170. Soon after, the virtuous Ephialtes was stabbed by some unknown person, and Pericles, feeling that good men could not be spared, moved that Kimôn should be called home again.

  171. Strike, but hear me,” said Themistocles; and then he showed such good reason for there meeting the battle that Eurybiades gave way.

  172. Only every soldier must swear to assist in keeping up obedience, and then they would show Artaxerxes that, though he had seized Clearchus, they had ten thousand as good as he.

  173. And I am Diogenes the Cynic,” was the answer, in a tone as if he thought himself quite as good as the king.

  174. Then out flew all the evils and miseries that were stored in it, and began to torment poor mankind with war, and sickness, and thirst, and hunger, and nothing good was left but hope at the bottom of the box.

  175. He was at that time a youth full of good promise, but he let himself be led astray by the vices and pleasures of his court, and withdrew his favour from Aratus.

  176. Then the Greeks marched on for a good distance before halting to sup and sleep, and were able again to make a little way in the morning before the enemy attacked them again.

  177. Phocion was a good and honest man, but low-spirited, and he thought quiet the only hope for Athens.

  178. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

  179. But you have kept the good wine till now.

  180. Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done.

  181. Many good deeds," He said, "have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?

  182. And taisez-vous, mademoiselle, is very good French for I wish it were with yourself.

  183. There is another saying less true and more trite that of those that do leave only good should be said.

  184. Do you fancy a girl cares for a man because he is or is not good enough?

  185. But if I am wrong, it is hardly disloyalty to him to say that he is not good enough for you.

  186. Littre, who was the wisest and ugliest of men, stated that Hippocrates recommended everybody to get tight once a month, asserting that it was hygienic, good for the system, that it relaxed the nerves.

  187. Mrs. Waldron had sent in to say that she and Miss Waldron were going, and would Mr. Orr be so good as to see them home.

  188. She was a good girl, as such conscientious, and it troubled her, at first only a little and then very much, to think that Loftus must believe that she was knowingly accepting his flowers.

  189. Fanny being a little more than a bride and Loftus a good deal more than a beau, the spectacle caused comment.

  190. Happiness consists, if it consists in anything, in being on good terms with oneself.

  191. In telling you the value of such testimony the District Attorney has been good enough to leave it to me to explain that testimony of this character must, to be conclusive, exclude every other reasonable hypothesis.

  192. Of course, in saying that Loftus is not good enough for you I don't mean that I am.

  193. But what is good for everybody is bad for you.

  194. Moreover, as preparation could be decently managed only in town, to which she would not now return until autumn, it would be a good idea to run over to Europe.

  195. As for our Thomas Sternhold, it was happy for him that he died before his good master, anno 1549, in the month of August; so probably preventing much persecution which had happened unto him if surviving in the reign of Queen Mary.

  196. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq.

  197. The plan and dimensions followed those of the old church, and were ample enough, the north aisle a good deal shorter than the chancel, and all finished with gables crow-stepped in the Dutch fashion.

  198. We may have good things, but we shall not have the same good things.

  199. The northern side is of good rich loam, favourable to the growth of fine trees, and likewise forms excellent arable land.

  200. He threw up painting as a profession, but brought several good pictures to Cranbury.

  201. In 1481, good Bishop Waynflete made over the property to his newly- founded College of St. Mary Magdalen at Oxford, in whose possession it has remained ever since, except small portions which have been enfranchised from time to time.

  202. An inscription built into the wall of the churchyard records their names, with the inscription, suggested by Mr. Keble, "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

  203. If possible, a baby was short-coated on Good Friday, to ensure not catching cold.

  204. His own parish of Otterbourne had felt his influence, and was noted for good order and improvement.

  205. He pleaded for immediate repentance and denied that good deeds would lead to salvation.

  206. When operations were transferred to New York, he also engaged several vessels which rendered good service.

  207. In 1663 the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa was organized, being granted the coast from Sallee to the Cape of Good Hope.

  208. In 1764 the intendancy of Havana was established, likewise with good results.

  209. What was done there is a good example of the way the Spaniards often uprooted native society by trying to improve it.

  210. The Spaniards often repaid these aggressions with good interest, and frequent raids were made on the foreign colonies.

  211. They were assisted financially by the queen and by many of her councillors who considered the raiding of Spanish commerce good business as well as good state policy.

  212. In 1633 lands were purchased from the Indians, and Fort Good Hope was built at modern Hartford, but the Puritan migration soon secured the Connecticut Valley for the English.

  213. In 1596 a company was organized to open a trade with the Far East; their fleet sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, stopped at Madagascar, and then proceeded to Java and the Moluccas, returning home the next year.

  214. The Mallet party had succeeded in getting through the Comanche country to New Mexico and had returned safely and with good prospects for trade.

  215. The Laidies are as gay as any in Europe, dress as richly, and appear with as good a Grace.

  216. Andre was condemned and hung as a spy, but Arnold made good his escape to the British lines.


  217. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good anchorage; good angel; good cause; good colour; good comfort; good conscience; good crops; good flavor; good green; good ground; good habit; good judge; good little; good living; good manners; good men; good mistress; good opinion; good portion; good priest; good roads; good soldiers; good thought; good title; good yeast; goodly number