"Goodish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... finished the course, is waiting gloomily for the victim of tough beef (who is still struggling) to have done—my chequered neighbor remarks, in an aside which makes every one start as if a pistol had been fired off, "Goodish-sized pause, eh?" ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... myself, L85 is a goodish price to pay for one plant, however rare. Woodden is acting up to ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... "Oh, I say, you know, you mustn't say that, really!" and it seemed to me he passed it over the larynx with a goodish deal of vim and je-ne-sais-quoi. But, by Jove, before the heroine had time for the come-back, our little friend with the freckles had risen ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse
... to lay the cloth feverishly). "Oh, a goodish time. Say, Hermy, he sure likes your name a ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... was a mercy Mrs. Fisher had seen it when she did, and they were glad the church was a goodish way from the village. ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... I guess," said the eager Nick. "Guess them two black foxes'll fix him good. He'll git a goodish bit o' ...
— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum
... captain. "I give you permission to go and dig over all the islands in the Pacific; there's a goodish number of them, and it's a ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... was, according to the aborigines, a goodish step longer than the road, geometrically. But there was some inner sense—moral, ethical, spiritual—somehow metaphysical or supraphysical—in which it was a short cut, for all that. The road was ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... he, Yet simple as a child could be. He'd shirk his meal to sit and cram A goodish deal of Eton Gram. No man alive could him nonplus With vocative of filius; No man alive more fully knew The passive of a verb or two; None better knew the worth than he Of words that end in b, d, t. Upon his green in early spring He might be seen endeavouring To ...
— More Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert
... psychological. I was new to this particular game, but I had been following various footballs with my feet or with my eyes for some thirty years, and I was not to be bullied out of my opinion that the American university game, though goodish, lacked certain virtues. Its characteristics tend ever to a too close formation, and inevitably favor tedium and monotony. In some aspects an unemotional critic might occasionally be tempted to call it naive and barbaric. But ...
— Your United States - Impressions of a first visit • Arnold Bennett
... very well, Mr. Bunfit. But there's a quarrel up already with Benjamin. Benjamin was to have had 'em before. Benjamin has spent a goodish bit of money, and has been thrown over rather. I daresay Benjamin was as bad as Smiler, or worse. No doubt Benjamin let on to Smiler, and thought as Smiler was too many for him. I daresay there was a few words between him and Smiler. I wouldn't wonder if Smiler ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope
... repeated the skipper; "four days. Then I reckon you better go ahead straight away; and turn it out as quick as ever you can, for this here ca'm looks as though it meant to last a goodish while yet. The glass is high an' steady, with an upward tendency, if anything, and I don't see no ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... refreshment (Scandalsheet) Elderly martyr for the advancement of his juniors Favour can't help coming by rotation Flashes bits of speech that catch men in their unguarded corner For 'tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too Get back what we give Goodish sort of fellow; good horseman, good shot, good character Grossly unlike in likeness (portraits) He had by nature a tarnishing eye that cast discolouration He had neat phrases, opinions in packets He was not a weaver of phrases in distress He's good from end to end, and beats a Christian hollow ...
— Quotations from the Works of George Meredith • David Widger
... society woman, which could not be called recognition of him, because it did not involve any knowledge of his book, not even its title. She did not read any sort of books, and she assimilated him by a sort of atmospheric sense. She was sure of nothing but the attention paid him in a certain very goodish house, by people whom she heard talking in unintelligible but unmistakable praise, when she said, casually, with a liquid glitter of her sweet, small eyes, "I wish you would come down to my place, Mr. Verrian. I'm asking a few young people ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... in some surprise. "It is a perfect beauty," he observed; "but you must have paid a goodish bit ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey |
