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If you don’t pay at least a goodly chunk of your 2023 taxes by then, you will be penalized automatically, even if you file for an extension by Monday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

"The last time we had goodly numbers... was round about 2017, so it's great to see them now."

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

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

Maybe that works better when you’re breathing the same air as the actor — something that’s been impossible for a goodly while.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2021

When I won over a goodly number of fighters, I built up my army enough to attack fiefdoms and to pursue the enemies I had seen in the water gourd.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

King Harald said that was an easy matter; for they must say that no goodlier a man had in their days come out of Iceland.

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

I my lady, than eyes goodlier easily she?

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis

Sweet is the treading of wine, and sweet the feet of the dove; But a goodlier gift is thine than foam of the grapes or love.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Thorkell was a great man and a lordly; and no man was goodlier than Bolli, nor of gentler breeding; Thord Ingwin's son was the most discreet of them all, a wise man in the law.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker

It was a fair picture, and no eye could rest on a goodlier couple than the tall lithe young man, and the noble maiden.

From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various

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

And in thy little heart, dear, The goodliest quarters be.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

The same construction is found in Milton’s “Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

"The loveliest pair That ever yet in love's embraces met: Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve."

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller