Do we say good or bad

good 127187 occurrences

Don't you know what a scelping is, my boy?a good whipping.

"He's all right," I heard the teller say as I went out, and understood that the bank-clerk had assured Trego that my character was good enough for him to be friendly with me on the passage to Hong-Kong.

We'll manage all right with the chinks on deck, if we can get some good helmsmen.

"Come right along with it, my good men, but leave it below.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"Your red-headed chap is a good man at the helm," said Riggs to me.

"Tell all you know, my good man," said Meeker despite the caution Riggs had given him about interfering.

" "You looked it over in good shape with a light," said Captain Riggs, evidently in doubt as to what he should do.

"Pry it open a bit more, Harris, and let me have a good, square look at it.

"That settles Mr. Matey, well and good.

We'll take the bridge and keep the old tub going until day and then pick out a good place to drop her when we've got what we want.

"Good God!" cried Riggs, and he backed toward the companion, holding up his hands in terror as he thought that I had captured Rajah.

I took a measure of pride in writing the story, too, for I knew there was a good chance that it might be my last, and I had visions of it being printed in the newspapers some day.

"That's the Zambales coast of Luzon, and they have been making a good easting all night; but we are running north nowsee that point ahead?

"They went in behind that point, and it's a good chance they'll be back if they see she's still afloat.

Now we had a good opportunity to stalk them and give them a surprise.

A little delay does 'em good; gives 'em a chance to think.

He was a great gunman and he was pretty good in scheming up ways of dodging the law and picking the best booty.

That was easy money for Piotto, but that was the beginnin' of the end for him; because while they was waitin', them two kids seen Joan and seen her good.

Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.

" "Yes, I suppose a good many people have killed time over this book.

Now as they relaxed, Anthony perceived first of all that most of the grimness passed away from the narrowed eyes and they lighted instead with good-humoured banter, though of a weary nature.

Chances may be good that he'll put up at some place near the old ranchhouse, but not right on the spot.

bad 18065 occurrences

As for his provisions, a good deal of the meat turned bad on the voyage, and the contract was not very satisfactorily carried out.

But it was impossible to rule over the natives satisfactorily unless the Spanish settlers could be forced to submit to the laws, and the Adelantado was not powerful enough to keep the bad characters in subjection.

The three caravels which had been despatched from Gomera by the admiral unfortunately made a bad landfall, and appeared off Xaragua.

Very desirous of being the author who should designate the other polar star of the firmament, I lost, many a time, my night's sleep while contemplating the movement of the stars around the southern pole, in order to ascertain which had the least motion, and which might be nearest to the firmament; but I was not able to accomplish it with such bad nights as I had, and such instruments as I used, which were the quadrant and astrolabe.

I am free to acknowledge that I think the whole of this stanza bad.

And Hunt was in bad odour with these reviews because he was a hostile politician, still more than because of any actual or assumed defects in his performances as an ordinary man of letters.

As bad as toimes are, an' as feaw as things look, We're certain they met ha' bin worse; We'n had tommy to eat, an' clooas to put on; They'n only bin roughish, aw know.

This world's full o' changes for better an' wur, An' this is one change among th' ruck; We'n a toime o' prosperity,toime o' success, An' then we'n a reawnd o' bad luck.

Short in staple, and often rotten, bad in quality, and dirty in condition, (the result too often of dishonest packers,) it was found to be exceedingly difficult to work up; and from its various defects, it involved considerable deductions, or 'batings,' for bad work, from the spinners' and weavers' wages.

Short in staple, and often rotten, bad in quality, and dirty in condition, (the result too often of dishonest packers,) it was found to be exceedingly difficult to work up; and from its various defects, it involved considerable deductions, or 'batings,' for bad work, from the spinners' and weavers' wages.

I was quite ashamed of my bad memory.

He laughed where he saw something to laugh at, but not elsewhere, which in some circles is considered morose and in bad form.

There was something in that laugha ring of wounded vanity, the wounded vanity of a bad woman who is in the presence of her superior.

"A woman only conceals what is bad about her husband.

What news have you, bad character?" Steinmetz smiled pensively, not so much suggesting the desire to impart as the intention to withhold that which the lady called news.

He says he has none; but is one to believe so notorious a bad character?" "Madame, it is wise to believe only that which is convenient.

" "Do you dislike my taste, Ned?To my eye, now, the structure has no bad appearance from this spot!" "Fitness and comfort are indispensable requisites for domestic architecture, to use your own argument.

This is a gaining concern, though there has been some falling off of late, in consequence of the clergyman's having caught a bad cold, which has made him a little hoarse; but I dare say he will get over it, and the church ought not to be abandoned on that account, serious as the matter undoubtedly is, for the moment.

To dismiss this expression with the contempt which it deserves, yet not without the reflections which it naturally excites, I shall only observe, that all extension of the power of the crown must be dangerous to us; and that whoever endeavours to find out new modes of guilt, is to be looked on, not as a good subject, but a bad citizen.

The Widow, Madam, You bad me look upon.

Of a portrait exhibited in 1896, at Munich, a critic said that while it was not wholly bad, it was no better than what hundreds of others could do as well, and hundreds of others could do much better.

Then one day the thing gets shaky, and it goes from bad to worse, And the public grasps a shadow where it tried to hold a share; And in vain the country clergy most unclerically curse, You have "realised your property," and end a millionnaire.

THE BAD FORM OF THE PAST.

As the bad weather detained the ships, the admiral sent the notary, accompanied by two Indians, to a town where Guacanagari resided, to see if he could procure gold; for, having got some considerable quantity of late, he believed it might be more plentiful in this part.

Diaz then desired him to send his master; but this he likewise refused, saying that were as bad as going himself, and that Spanish admirals were not wont to put themselves or their men into the hands of others.

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