goodliest
- superlative of goodly.
Example Sentences
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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
And in thy little heart, dear, The goodliest quarters be.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
He's ta'en his leave at the goodliest, Broken boats in the mill-water; Golden gifts for all the rest, Sorrow of heart for the king's daughter.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Besides pine, oak and mulberry, there were, Smith writes, "... goodliest Woods as Beech, Cedar, Cypresse, Walnuts, Sassfras, and other trees unknowne."
From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam
