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Example sentences for "passing good"

  • By my head," said King Arthur, "I marvel much of what blood he hath come, for he is a passing good knight.

  • Sir," said Marhaus, "I have well felt that you are a passing good knight, and a man of marvellous might as ever I met.

  • O Jesu, said Sir Palomides, that yonder is a passing good knight, and the best jouster that ever I saw.

  • I may not believe that, said the king, for Sir Palomides is a passing good knight.

  • By my head, said Sir Sagramore and Sir Dodinas, ye have cause to dread him, for ye shall find him a passing good knight, and a valiant.

  • Ah," said Prianius, "if his varlets be so keen and fierce, his knights must be passing good!

  • Then Sir Gringamors gave Sir Gareth a bay courser that was a passing good horse, with sure armor, and a noble sword, won by his father from a heathen tyrant.

  • But to return to Cosimo; he left only one son, who was a builder and a passing good architect.

  • Disciples of Andrea were Jacopo del Corso, who was a passing good master, Pisanello, Marchino, Piero del Pollaiuolo, and Giovanni da Rovezzano.

  • A disciple and perhaps a son of the same man was Antonio d'Andrea Tafi, who was a passing good painter; but I have not been able to find any work by his hand.

  • Then Sir Gringamors gave Sir Gareth a bay courser that was a passing good horse, with sure armour, and a noble sword, won by his father from a heathen tyrant.

  • Then there swore King Lot, a passing good knight, and Sir Gawain's father, that he would bring five thousand men of arms on horseback.

  • With that came the King with the Hundred Knights and rescued King Carados mightily by force of arms, for he was a passing good knight of a king, and but a young man.

  • And Bleoberis, that was godson unto King Bors, he bare his chief standard, that was a passing good knight.

  • But she was a passing good woman, and would not assent unto the king.

  • There is a knight in this country that owneth this white shield, and he is a passing good man of his hands, but he hateth all ladies and gentlewomen, and therefore we do all this despite to the shield.

  • I know him well, said Sir Uwaine, he is a passing good knight as any is on live.

  • Wherefore ye ought of right to be, of your deeds, a passing good man; and certainly, she said, ye resemble him much.

  • For that Pridam was a passing good knight, and he wounded Sir Bors full evil, and he him again; but ever this Pridam held the stour in like hard.

  • Then he drew his sword, for he was a passing good knight, and defended him right manfully.

  • John the Evangelist, which is a passing good figure, wrought with fine design and skill.

  • Andrea also delighted in architecture, and he was the master of Mangone, the stonecutter and architect, who afterwards erected many palaces and other buildings in Rome in a passing good manner.

  • In his time there lived in Milan a passing good illuminator, called Girolamo, whose works may be seen in good numbers both in that city and throughout all Lombardy.

  • With that came the king with the hundred knights and rescued king Carados mightily by force of arms, for he was a passing good knight of a king, and but a young man.

  • And Bleoberis that was god-son unto king Bors he bare his chief standard, that was a passing good knight.

  • He was not only a man of good and holy life, but also a passing good painter, as may be seen in the Convent of S.

  • After these men came Bartolommeo Montagna of Vicenza, a passing good painter, who lived ever in Venice and made many pictures there; and he painted a panel in the Church of S.

  • He did little work in his native city of Pistoia; but for the Company of the Buon Gesù in Borgo San Sepolcro he painted a Circumcision in oil on a panel, which is passing good.

  • The work in the same place was continued after him by Vittore Bellini, who made a view of buildings in perspective, which is passing good, in a scene wherein S.

  • Benedict, with landscapes in perspective, an angel tuning a cithern, and many little figures more than passing good.

  • He is a passing good man of his body, as few be living, and a passing proud man, and Sir, doubt ye not he will make war on you with a mighty puissance.

  • Ye are a passing good jouster as ever I met withal, and once more for the love of the high order of knighthood let us joust once again.

  • Helen directing the search for the Cross of Christ, which is a passing good work.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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