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The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

I also disappeared for a goodly while into Stephen Amidon’s taut domestic thriller “Locust Lane,” which is just coming out this month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

“For what more august, more charming and useful, than the culture and preservation of such goodly plantations: That shade to our grand-children give,” the British forester John Evelyn wrote in the 1660s, quoting Virgil.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Grainger made sense because his wind band music usefully employed a goodly number of winds included in the 32 young musicians, and because you can’t have too many winds in a band.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

The women were both of goodly height Madame Ratignolle possessing the more feminine and matronly figure.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Wouldst thou, Quintius, have me a debtor ready to owe thee Eyes, or if earth have joy goodlier any than eyes?

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis

And thence down many a shining street they passed, Each one appearing goodlier than the last, Cool with the presence of innumerous trees And fountains playing before palaces.

From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson

Hoskuld was called, and was shown the child, and he thought, as others did, that he had never seen a goodlier or a more noble-looking child.

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

Yet this grace is ours—a sign Of that goodlier grace of thine, Sweet, and thine alone—to see Heaven, and heaven's own love, in thee.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne

In all the army there was not a goodlier person than he.

From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Virginia “is wonderfull fertile and very rich,” he told the company, with “a goodly River called Patomack, upon the borders whereof there are grown the goodliest Trees.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017

From the outside Satan can see "higher than that wall a circling row / Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011

He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men.

From The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire by Alexandre Chatrian

But when he stood and leaned against his horse's neck and smiled at us, methought he was by far the goodliest man that ever I had looked upon.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives

The goodliest lordshippes, maners, londes, and territories, are theyrs.

From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish