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Bell, my wife, she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can; And oft, to live a quiet life, I'm forced to yield, though I'm goodman.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy

"But at any rate you will sup with us," said the goodman.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac

Outside stood the goodman by the barn door, threshing.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen

The woman, faint-hearted and overmastered by a nameless dread, cried out to the goodman to ride for life—the woods were full of devils.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

"The child-like temper of the people," replied the goodman, "delight in the unwonted and strange, and then many stories are told, that in reality may have happened very differently."

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Spiegfried Kohn

Pleasant it is to think of the church appearance of the Puritan goodmen and goodwives.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

All the goodmen took one counsel, and went to Hoskuld and told him their trouble.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press

A strange old piece, goodmen — whirled about from here to yonder, as if I were nothing!

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Moreover the goodmen and swains of the said township were no ill folk, but bold of heart, free of speech, and goodly of favour; and the women of them fair, kind, and trusty.

From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris

So we scattered and covered ourselves with the oak-boles, but besides Iron-shield, who was slain outright, two goodmen were sorely hurt, to wit Bald-face, a man of our house, and Stonyford of the Lower Dale.

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris