Do we say good or nice

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.

nice 6946 occurrences

"You, Boone, know the place; stand by me and I'll see that we are not nabbed; but you've made a nice mess of the affair.

Very nice it looks, too; though it was a hard job.

"Have you had a nice sleep, Miss Anna?"

'A nice thing,' said Birchill fiercely, 'for this high-placed loose liver to carry on like this with a poor innocent girl whose only fault was that she loved him too well.

On the contrary, at a particularly nice point, he actually clapped his hands together twice.

So she got him a nice bit of green baize, and in the afternoon he made his bagno gobble-stitch work, but good, honest back-stitching, except the string-case, which was only run, that it might draw easier and tighter.

His father also bought him a nice new slate.

Willie thought how nice it would be with his new knife also to cut his name on his slate; only he would rather make some difference in the way of doing it.

From Elma Heath's conversation at dinner that evening at Nice I gathered that she and her uncle had been guests on the Iris on several occasions, although I must say that Muriel was extremely reticent regarding all that concerned the yacht.

We traveled back to Finland in the autumn, and in the winter he took me to stay with his sister in Nice.

"There I went into railroading; am engaged to a nice little girl there; and came back two days ago to explain myself all around, returning here, I saw JOHN MCLAUGHLIN first, who told me that a certain Mr. CLEWS was here to unravel the Mystery about me, and persuaded me to let Mr. CLEWS work you into another visit to the cellar the Pauper Burial Ground, and there appear to you as my own ghost, before finally revealing myself as I now do.

In persons of a rank superior to our own humble one, I wanted not much assistance from my father's nice discernment to know that it existed there; and for these latter he would always claim that toleration from me, which he said he observed I was less willing to allow than to the former instances.

You have nice things!"

My grandfather was a nice man who liked baseball, and he would usually take my side.

"You just said that he was a nice man who liked baseball.

"We want two dozen more,all nice big ones, and by to-morrow, for it is only three days before Easter, and they must be boiled and colored to be ready in season.

But I do wish some nice lady would adopt you,some nice lady with a nice home.

But I do wish some nice lady would adopt you,some nice lady with a nice home.

"It's a nice situation," she observed, "for artists.

I accepted his proposal, and having agreed with his statement that it was "a nice morning for a sail," set off with Joyce along the mile of pier that separated us from the shore.

You see, if Gow wasn't about, you would have to pull the dinghy all the way down the bank before you got on board the Betty, and that's a nice, muddy, shin-scraping sort of job at the best of times.

So up we went, and found the fact true enough, but the next spur was some thousand yards away; so on we went across that slope, and on to the next, eventually reaching a very nice little place some eight hundred yards from the spur occupied by the enemy.

This was very nice of them, for very soon I had a complete list of the garrison of each sangar, and from where I was could see the sort of gun they were armed with,a few rifles among the lower sangars, and nearly all matchlocks among the higher and more inaccessible ones.

There are no less than sixteen very nice pictures to this story-book,well done, even for Mr. Hoppin, artistically, and well conceived for the refreshing of the inner eye of him, her, or it that reads.

I might have made a special effort to be nice to him.

Do we say   good   or  nice