goodman

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The woman, faint-hearted and overmastered by a nameless dread, cried out to the goodman to ride for life—the woods were full of devils.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

Well, every man to his own taste; but, Betty, excuse my asking so personal a question, why do you always refer to your goodman here as "Nathan, puir falla"?'

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing

He begged her not to move, and asked if the goodman was at home.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John

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