goodly

• “Fisherman; whereupon Khalifah cried, How goodly is thy bounty, O Tulip!”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Princess (and indeed she was drowned in the sea of her desire and the fire of her passion and love-longing) broke out, O my nurse, how goodly is this youth!”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “And how goodly is the saying of another and how excellent,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Excuse me, for I thought not that the Sultan would come hither; and, had I known that, I would have killed a couple of chickens and entertained him in goodly guise.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “There he and his companions were entertained in goodly fashion, feasting every day and holding pious disputations.”

  This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States

• “Pastors 'wives and village teachers were found in goodly number, while not a few of the quiet home keepers had left the family cares for a few days that they, too, might sit at the feet of Jesus in company with other sisters and learn what He would have them to do in order that His kingdom might be quickly extended.”

  Daughters of India

• “Then this blessed lady, seeing this, called him by his name goodly and said: Brother Adrian, dread ye nothing, for I am come to you for your good honour and profit.”

  The Golden Legend, vol. 7

• “a beginning to this new Christian community, I baptized a goodly number of children already capable of reason.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “When the Caliph heard this, he said, “O Ja’afar, how goodly is that voice!””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Every seventh day his governors reported to the King what his son had learnt and mastered, whereby Jali’ad became proficient in goodly learning and fair culture, and the Olema said to him,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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