638 examples of all the good in sentences
The English nation may well be contented because they have already got all the good things of the Earththeir trade, their ports, their colonies; but Germany will not allow this to go on for ever.
She's coming," said Mr. Pitmanand as in all the good faith of his eagerness now; "she's coming in about three minutes.
Of an impetuous and vehement spirit, he was distinguished by all the good as well as the bad qualities incident to that character: he was open, frank, generous, sincere, and brave; he was revengeful, domineering, ambitious, haughty, and cruel; and was thus better calculated to dazzle men by the splendour of his enterprises, than either to promote their happiness or his own grandeur by a sound and well-regulated policy.
Whether we like him or not, we are compelled to admit that his administration was able and beneficent, and that he seemed to be actuated by a sincere desire to do all the good he could.
[Illustration: "'It aint so 'orrid as I 'ad fancied.' ses Sam."] "'Ave you 'ad enough to do you all the good it ought to?" Mr. Goodman said that it was no good 'arf doing a thing, and p'r'aps he 'ad better 'ave one more; and arter Sam 'ad paid for the next two they went out arm-in-arm.
We have a letter wherein Beethoven says: "Farewell, my dearest Thérèse; I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer.
I hope eventually to derive some benefit from the late decision, but the reckless and desperate character of my opponents may defeat all the good I expect from it.
He is anxious to do all the good he can without hurting himself or his fair fame.
Accordingly next evening they travelled on, with Nell comfortably bestowed in a stage-wagon among the softer packages, her grandfather and the schoolmaster walking on beside the driver, and the landlady and all the good folks of the inn screaming out their good wishes and farewells.
"I said he ought to be able to fake a good story; but he maintained that a newspaper could smell a faked story a mile away, and that, anyhow, all the good stunts had been pulled off.
In this country of delight which contains all the good things, all the riches of the world?
The system of appraisement, he said, was a premium upon all the bad qualities of the negroes and a tax upon all the good ones.
We will give him full credit for all the good that he does, and our deep sympathy in all the temptations under whose strength he falls.
He behaved very decently about it, and said that I might as well have left her six months ago for all the good my staying had done or was likely to do.
If in many ways she took pains to gain people, she commonly herself spoiled all the good she had done, by an ill tongue, which spared no one.
Thus will you do me all the good that you could ever wish me; and see, for this I shall be grateful to you!
It isn't the handsome and the strong who do all the good in the world; very often it is just the other way.
'All the good in the world,' said Bagwax, brandishing his own magnifier with energy.
He found among the mothers of the Punjab a finer courage than ever the wars had shown himthe courage that bends and bearsand an answering sweetness for all the good that men brought to their feet....
He thinks, with many others, that all the good effects which might have been obtained by the revolution will be lost through the contempt and hatred which the republican government has drawn upon it.
[Occasions for all the Good-natured Offices of ] Generosity and Compassion.
The Duke of St. Albans has cut down all the brave old trees at Hanworth, and consequently reduced his park to what it issued fromHounslow-heath: nay, he has hired a meadow next to mine, for the benefit of embarkation; and there lie all the good old corpses of oaks, ashes, and chestnuts, directly before your windows, and blocking up one of my views of the river!
Those earthy spirits black and envious are; I'll call up other Gods, of form more fair: Who visions dress in pleasing colour still, Set all the good to shew, and hide the ill.
I may die in poverty, and leave Mr. Cliff's nephews to get all the good of the draft and the money in my trunk up-stairs.
At his first settling with me, I made him a Present of all the good Sermons which have been printed in English, and only begg'd of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the Pulpit.