Careful Words

goodly (adj.)

  How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Old Testament: Numbers xxiv. 5.

  The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Old Testament: Psalm xvi. 6.

A goodly apple rotten at the heart:

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

O Christ! it is a goodly sight to see

What Heaven hath done for this delicious land.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 15.