goodliest

From the outside Satan can see "higher than that wall a circling row / Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit".

Ten of the best: walled gardens 2011

The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Richard Geldard: Divinity School Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson Shocks Harvard Richard Geldard 2011

The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Richard Geldard: Divinity School Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson Shocks Harvard Richard Geldard 2011

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

CORONATION DAY 2010

A stone plaque records his promise to walkers that they would be rewarded at the top by "One of England's goodliest vistas".

Britain's best views: The British Camp, Malvern Hills 2010

By the virtue of the Messiah and the Faith which is no liar, except thou return to the creed of the Kings thy Forebears and walk therein after the goodliest fashion, I will put thee to an ill death and make of thee the most shameful of ensamples!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

For the goodliest of the gifts in this world is a virtuous sire, and it is said, ‘Whoso hath no progeny his life is without result and he leaveth no memory.’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The girl marvelled at his eloquence and elegance and taking her lute, smote thereon with the goodliest of performance, repeating all the melodies, and sang these couplets,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The woman said, “Well, then, the man thou shalt have will be of the goodliest, and well shalt thou love him.”

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

Q “What are the goodliest of treasures?” — “The treasures of heaven.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006