goodman

Example Sentences

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Both Manuel Quezon and goodman Osme�a were mum last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The child-like temper of the people," replied the goodman, "delight in the unwonted and strange, and then many stories are told, that in reality may have happened very differently."

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried

Judith did not stay to regard them further; but she could not help casting a look before she left at goodman Matthew, who stood there discomfited, dispossessed, unheeded, annihilated, as it were.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 

From Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Hoare, Edward

"Oh yes," replied the goodman, "but at table, it is late and we will sup."

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried