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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 goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

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

Within, upon the first floor above the street, up a wide carven stair, he showed them to a fair room, light and airy, with goodly hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

“A choice young man and a goodly; there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he; from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.”

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

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

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

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

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

Nature herein has mocked The cunning artist's skill, who, in a rim Of purest silver sets his goodliest stone, Making the metal richer for the gem.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

Adam, the goodliest of men since born His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

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

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine