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Example sentences for "goodly number"

  • In the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, many Jewish soldiers fought for Russia, and a goodly number of them were killed or wounded on the battlefield.

  • An additional reason for the pogrom was the reputed wealth of a goodly number of the Jewish families of Nizhni-Novgorod.

  • The two women drew a goodly number of little sophistries from their religion wherewith to justify their conduct.

  • This deposit was not made without a goodly number of tears and kisses.

  • A goodly number of hands flew about in the darkness, flourishing terrible canes and umbrellas, and from both the throngs arose a chorus of imprecations far from flattering to the canine race.

  • The women of the people were in the majority, but there were a goodly number of senoras: men were few.

  • Jewish faith withstood the oppression of Syria and held their own for a goodly number of years against not only the foreign yoke that oppressed them, but against the Hellenising corruption of their faith at home.

  • South Australia has a goodly number of schools for higher education, and it also has a university which is well attended.

  • They also crossed a goodly number of dry beds of rivers, which had every appearance of being full and running over in the season of heavy rains.

  • We drove to the resident portion of the city and saw a goodly number of private houses of the better sort.

  • There was, however, a goodly number of catechumens, who were very earnest in seeking baptism.

  • Thus, by way of farewell, we made a goodly number of Christians.

  • He keeps his bed a day or two for a slight indisposition, and a goodly number of ladies and gentlemen visit him, and converse with him in the ruelle;[544] in their presence he lifts up the blankets and spits in the sheets.

  • Some poets in their tragedies employ a goodly number of big sounding verses, which seem strong, elevated, and filled with lofty sentiments.

  • The writer has personal knowledge of a goodly number of women who have been benefited wonderfully by adopting the two meal a day plan.

  • It may be reasonably assumed that a goodly number of recoveries ascribed to drug treatments are due, in reality, to the resisting force of a good constitution, or to obedience to the laws of health given in the circular.

  • This closing announcement made a great sensation among his attentive listeners, and he marched back to the farm, confident that they would have a goodly number of spectators.

  • There is a goodly number of works by Jan van Eyck in various galleries.

  • There is a large collection of the pictures of Vandyck at Windsor Castle; there are many also in the private galleries of Great Britain and other countries, besides a goodly number in the public galleries of Europe.

  • A book of brief anecdotal town histories, curious legends, notable events, newspaper clippings, together with a goodly number of illustrations.

  • Ministers throughout New England were quick to support or to oppose the revival movement, and a goodly number of them, as itinerants, took up the evangelical work.

  • He comes, a signal favor, with his three favorites, a goodly number of leudes in the train of his antrustions, as the royal favorites proudly style themselves.

  • It was not yet the hour for the slaves to proceed to the fields, and a goodly number of Neroweg's companions, in default of battle steeds, sat astride of draft and plow horses bridled with ropes.

  • Some trembled from head to foot; others fled into the thickest of the forest; still others, a goodly number, preserved their courage, and hastily sought for means of the defense.

  • He carries on an extensive farming business, and is the owner of a goodly number of tidy, respectful, and industrious slaves.

  • A goodly number of their more ridiculous games, however, they have abandoned of their own accord, but the manly game of ball-playing is still practised after the ancient manner, with one or two restrictions.

  • He raises a goodly number of cattle as well as horses and mules, and his principal markets for them are Charleston and Savannah, to which cities he performs a pilgrimage in the autumn of every year.

  • A goodly number of pastors speak to the candidates "unter vier Augen," but they are the exceptions.

  • Houseal, the pastor of Trinity Church, was a tory, and when in 1783 the American troops marched into New York, he with a goodly number of his adherents removed to Nova Scotia and founded a Lutheran church in Halifax.

  • A goodly number of eminent ministers in various non-Lutheran Protestant churches of this city are the children or grandchildren of Lutheran parents.

  • He also sold a goodly number of his rings.

  • Although a goodly number of rings are enrolled, together with the gloves, yet a page is devoted to rings, exclusively, in the middle of the book.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodly number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before daylight; binding force; bottomed boats; celui qui; commonly supposed; farm work; goodly company; goodly heritage; goodly number; goodly portion; great expedition; greatly increased; heavy growth; heavy press; honorable discharge; literary career; many respects; now began; pressure engines; prodigious quantity; rural population; sexual differences; slavery friends; waste lands; worship thee