All 5 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, "Vanity."†
Chpt 1-3
- This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appreciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- The beauty her features might have lacked in form was amply made up for by perfection of hue, which at this winter-time was the softened ruddiness on a surface of high rotundity that we meet with in a Terburg or a Gerard Douw; and, like the presentations of those great colourists, it was a face which kept well back from the boundary between comeliness and the ideal.†
Chpt 7-9
- That it is unworthy of any thoughtful, and meek, and comely woman.†
Chpt 19-21
- Here's long life and happiness to neighbour Oak and his comely bride!"†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(comely) attractive -- especially of a woman