The owner stubbornly refused to sell it though he was offered a good sum of money for it.
Only one man -Owen McNamara - stood up to defeat, though he had bet a good sum on the horse.
The best part of the book is the concluding chapter, a good summing up of Nehru's triumphs and failures.
Replace "walk" with "skateboard" and you'd have a pretty good summing up of the current situation.
He and his siblings inherited a good sum of money and moved to the West Coast, eventually ending up in Beverly Hills.
At his death, Henty left more than £6,000, a good sum in today's money (nearly £400,000) and a large one for any author.
Nor does it discourage them in their eventual ambition to sell the Alvearie to a good home — the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., appeals to them — for a good sum.
When her friend returned from the war he found a shop that increased in value, a good sum of money in the bank, and a woman who had proved she would make him a good wife.
Discovering that Grant was not actually a Galena native saved me a good sum of money, because the appeal of buying the $175 first edition faded, and the $14.95 paperback version on sale at the historical museum seemed quite sufficient.
When a white emissary from Clybourne Park (David Cromer, who is appropriately jumpy as he brutalizes the family with a smile that's anything but) offers Walter a good sum of money not to move his family there, he decides to take it.
