good-morning

Example Sentences

• "But if they are greeted with the sunrise and good weather, they cheep a good-morning to one another in soft, cheerful voices, and go at once to their feeding-grounds, where they regale themselves on the wheat of the stubbles, the buckwheat, the seeds of grasses, and the rag-weed, and on the berries of the haw, the gum, and the chicken-grape."
• "She was just helping herself to kidneys at the sideboard, however, when Lady Lavinia entered. It was all she could do to suppress a sigh. Her good-morning was not entirely free of embarrassment."
• "Once we’d said our good-mornings, I asked if he’d been to the screaming mouth."
• "“Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you![…]” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. / “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, […] And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Beladonna Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”"
• "After breakfast this lad came in and said “Heil Hitler” and “Good morning.” Sam heiled Hitler and good-morninged right back, and the chap opened a portfolio and put down a lot of letters for Sam to sign."
• "The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown."