goodly

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

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

He was optimistic that the sprinklers would save “a goodly number of them” from extreme heat, he said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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

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

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

Bank it had none, but its margin was the lawn, to which it imparted a goodlier freshness.

From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

Yet, great as was his skill, he was not therefore anywise goodlier of person or better favoured than Messer Forese.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

No field was ever so well tilled but that here and there nettle, or thistle, or brier would be found in it amid the goodlier growths.

From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

Well I knew Gunnar, our king, and tonight I thought he had come back to us from Valhalla, goodlier yet and mightier than ever, as one who has feasted with the Asir might well be.

From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

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

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

So these two, in goodliest fellowship, turned their faces toward their new day.

From Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

This is the goodliest people, and of the fairest conditions that we haue found in this our voyage.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt

I left there the goodliest company conceivable: Rogers, Moore, Macaulay, Charles Austen, Mr. Dundas, Charles Greville, and Westmacott: so much for the mankind.

From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble