good gracious
Example Sentences
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“You were scratching your head and saying, good gracious what are they doing there? It shows you how tough those people are.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
My gracious, my good gracious," laments a homeward-bound G.I. in Brewsie and Willie, "Oh my good gracious, oh my good gracious . . . my good gracious.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, good gracious, when you read a novel—say Sherlock Holmes—do you find it easier to learn it by heart rather than gather the meaning as you go along?"
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
"Packing! good gracious, child, you are not going away too?"
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
I'm not above certain things now; good gracious, no!
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
