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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

“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

Madam would not return home for a goodly while.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Others of those boxes contained goodlier gear, for Jensen was a vain rogue as well as a clever rogue, and dearly loved brave colours about him and to make a gaudy show.

From Marjorie by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

I had grown tired of architecture: it seemed goodlier to watch the shipping on the river, which at Arnheim may be called the Rhine without hesitation.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

My affections are then most humble; I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

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

One thing take not from me, to me more goodly than even Eyes, or if earth have joy goodlier any than eyes.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis

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

It was noysed in the Court how thys valiaunt Knight Vlrico, had in Boeme the fayrest and goodliest Lady to his Wife that liued eyther in Boeme, or Hungary.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

He's ta'en out the goodliest, Rain that rains in the mill-water; A comb of yellow shell for all the rest, A comb of gold for the king's daughter.

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

"The delay hath cost Her Majesty her goodliest ship and us our lives and our long-cherished honour."

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton