Goodly

Excuse me, for I thought not that the Sultan would come hither; and, had I known that, I would have killed a couple of chickens and entertained him in goodly guise. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fisherman; whereupon Khalifah cried, How goodly is thy bounty, O Tulip! ❋ Unknown (2006)

And how goodly is the saying of another and how excellent, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Princess (and indeed she was drowned in the sea of her desire and the fire of her passion and love-longing) broke out, O my nurse, how goodly is this youth! ❋ Unknown (2006)

There he and his companions were entertained in goodly fashion, feasting every day and holding pious disputations. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

Pastors 'wives and village teachers were found in goodly number, while not a few of the quiet home keepers had left the family cares for a few days that they, too, might sit at the feet of Jesus in company with other sisters and learn what He would have them to do in order that His kingdom might be quickly extended. ❋ Unknown (1908)

Then this blessed lady, seeing this, called him by his name goodly and said: Brother Adrian, dread ye nothing, for I am come to you for your good honour and profit. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

a beginning to this new Christian community, I baptized a goodly number of children already capable of reason. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

When the Caliph heard this, he said, “O Ja’afar, how goodly is that voice!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every seventh day his governors reported to the King what his son had learnt and mastered, whereby Jali’ad became proficient in goodly learning and fair culture, and the Olema said to him, ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the next breath I recalled the goodly sum of money I had always paid for his care, and the fact that this money had been a godsend to them; then I would stand shamed in my own sight, for the voice of Justice whispered to me that money could not have bought the love they gave him. ❋ Madeleine (1919)

Dean Fenneben's study in the south tower of Sunrise looked out on the new heaven and the new earth, every day-dawn created afresh for his eyes; for truly, the Walnut Valley in any mood needs only eyes that see to be called a goodly land. ❋ Unknown (1913)

He was vaguely described as goodly in appearance, of high family, but not abundantly supplied with riches. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The city was in smoke and ashes, that is, a goodly part of it, for the Confederacy, on taking their departure, fired the city rather than let it fall into the hands of the Union forces. ❋ Unknown (1893)

It is described as a goodly building in the form of a cross. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)

But it seems rather to be meant of the vessels and treasures of the temple, which God here calls his goodly pleasant things, precious and desirable to him and all that are his. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The defeat against the Surrey village of Shere in the Allahakbarries 'inaugural match, in which the locals made what Barrie called a "goodly" score (ie so many the scorers gave up counting) and the Allahakbarries mustered 11 – "The general feeling was that [we] had been beaten but not disgraced," he said phlegmatically. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"That's out of the Bible," was Hoodie's parting remark, as she went off with Martin, quite "goodly," as she had promised. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)