goodman

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The price of wheat, goodman Dickon?—how fatten your pigs?—will the fine weather last, think you?

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

Upon my honor, this little goodman is very fractious.

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

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