`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.

At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

`` It was mighty good for the old man to get out again ''.

He is uncompromising in assigning guilt to the man who finds it necessary to inflict or permit injury to one individual or group for the sake of a larger good.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

A good man departs.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

It is through them that we have become aware of the divine humanity in man, and therefore, that most people are noble, helpful and good.

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

`` So, we have to protect the old man for his own good.

There are, after all, fortunate souls who hear everything, but only know how to listen to what is good for them, and Stowey was, as things go, a fortunate man.

Throughout history, the man who showed superior performance has become the commander of others -- for good or bad.

The Providence Daily Journal, however, stated that Brown's courage, bravery, and heroism `` in a good cause would make a man a martyr ; ;

A good negociant or shipper will not only be the man or the firm which has cornered the wines from the best vineyards, or the best parts of them ; ;

When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

good grass, good water.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.

They were all good men.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

A good many beef-hungry settlers were accepting the death of William Lewis as proof that the warning notes were not idle threats.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

That long ride the four of you took must've given him a good appetite.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

The front windows of the place were long and narrow, reaching nearly to the floor and affording an unusually good view of the interior.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he prayed.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

Now he broke them open, hoping a good meal might lessen this depression crushing Hettie.