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
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Jean, good gracious, don't you hear father calling to you?
From The Belovéd Traitor by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
And now you must want your tea after that long walk—but, good gracious me, boy, have you met with an accident, or what, that you're all over with mud like that?
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
Oh, good gracious, how dreadfully fatiguing for a sick person.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.