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For instance, here's Green on how reviewers use the term "ambitious" as a quiet criticism:but "ambitious" novels are not usually failures a guide for the lazy but wellmeaning critic, how to recognize good books exclude the commercial trash, take the big "ambitious" novels & theyre usually the good ones dont read them just weigh them once in a great while such a books empty, phony like goodman's the empire city.

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"Let us not damage the goodman's property if we can avoid it."

The Eye of the World Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1990

Through the throng of bearded sailors we strode and made our way to the kitchen of the Quay Inn. A place sacred to kenspeckle folk it was, and from its smoke-stained rafters hung many pieces of bacon and dried shallots, and there were also bunches of centaury, and camomile, and dandelion root, and bogbean, for the goodman's wife was cunning in medicines of the older-fashioned sort.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

'Ay,' she replied, 'the goodman's dead, and is to be lifted the morn, but ye can bide the night; and if ye dinna mind such company,' she pointed contemptuously at the man who had let us in, 'ye can sleep wi' him i 'the room above.'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

"One would think you had a goodman's interest in this bit girl."

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The villages throve on the industry and there was hardly a cottage which did not hum with the spinning wheel, and hardly a street where you might not have counted weavers 'workshops, kitchens where the rough loom stood by the wall to occupy the goodman's working hours.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

More than one cottage woman, at the sight of the hoarded wealth in her staring goodman's hand, gulped and began to cry.

The Shuttle 1907

She went ofttimes to the wood with the cart to fetch home wood, and because it was far from the monastery otherwhile she lodged in a goodman's house whose daughter had conceived a child by a knight.

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

I wad wuss ye, 'quoth she,' to tak tent till't till I come hame -- ye sall hae a roosin 'ingle, and a blast o' the goodman's tobacco-pipe forbye. '

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

More than one cottage woman, at the sight of the hoarded wealth in her staring goodman's hand, gulped and began to cry.

The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886