What is "good-hearted"

Usage examples of "good-hearted".

Romeo and Juliet: a good-hearted fussbudget, a woman who spoke her piece but knew her place.

It was a source of distress to Prestimion that the good-hearted, ever-cheerful Kamba, that supreme master of archery, was not here to take part in this contest today.

King Verence was a kindly, good-hearted man, but what misbehavior he did not himself witness he seemed to take no interest in.

According to Daniel, she had helped watch the children, volunteered to prepare the food, joined in the singing, been thoughtful to her tentmates, and generally behaved like any good-hearted Edori girl.

And Sam bein' a good-hearted chap, thought it would please the old man to he buried down by the spring, that healthy spot.

She made me welcome, and introduced me to her worthy husband, who, though neither young nor handsome, was extremely good-hearted.

Of course that exalted body was largely influenced by the king and the clergy, and between them all no effort was spared to ruin Helvetius, a good-hearted man with more wit than his book.

Quite so, and the good-hearted girl refrains from taunting a man for his weakness for her.

Leah piqued me once more by saying enthusiastically,-- "I am sure you are the most good-hearted of men as well as the firmest.

She's a good-hearted girl, and she lets Bibbs come to see her, but if she'd ever given him one sign of encouragement the way you women think, he wouldn't of acted the stubborn fool he has--he'd 'a' been at me long ago, beggin' me for some kind of a job he could support a wife on.

They were good-hearted girls, unclean, clothed in rags, and profoundly ignorant.

Many's the time we went down there when our names had been marked, a crowd of us, Harry Peard and little Jack Mountain and Bob Dyas and Maurice Moriarty, the Frenchman, and Tom O'Grady and Mick Lacy that I told you of this morning and Joey Corbet and poor little good-hearted Johnny Keevers of the Tantiles.

Such is the competition for Izumi, his high-school girlfriend, whose good-hearted simplicity leaves her shattered when Hajime absconds to her cousin's bed.

Garlock arouses a flurry of sympathetic interest where usually there's only pity, dismay, or outright scorn: both operators and both their customers stand at the window to observe, noting in amazement the change in the woman's appearance, and Madelyn Daiches who's so good-hearted hurries out to tell Mrs.

They're good-hearted kids, but they're not the smartest folks to come down the pike.