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  • The awards presenter, the comely actress Anita Louise, handed Smith his trophy.†   (source)
  • He is clean and well-mannered, comely, sensitive.†   (source)
  • Thus, the only craft little practised among them was shoe-making; but they had long and skilful fingers and could make many other useful and comely things.†   (source)
  • The waitresses are a carefully selected sampling of the university's comeliest females in allblack outfits, the skin-snug tank tops provided by management.†   (source)
  • She offered a comely smile and Jake was already thinking about the comment "Seth had zipper problems."†   (source)
  • The general, too, was enjoying the comparative comforts of Staten Island, as well as the company of the comely Mrs. Loring, and characteristically he appeared to be in no hurry.†   (source)
  • I was a comely shadow who didn't threaten them.†   (source)
  • So the comely Miss Ward is going to take you to the other side.†   (source)
  • There was the rather eyebrow-raising fact of Bessie Glass's legs, which were comely by any criterion.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to tell which of them was the less comely—the hulking and rawboned Astrid, with her pinkish, weepy look of distress on a slablike face, or Lillian Grossman, skinny as a starved sparrow and with a mean, pinched expression that surely brought little comfort to the sufferers under her care.†   (source)
  • Piedmont and Bennington, in turn, presided over student-council elections at the white schools, sat in a place of honor at football games, chaperoned school dances, and kissed the comely blonde elected homecoming queen.†   (source)
  • She was a very comely older woman, a brunette carrying a few pounds extra but with that dividend most fetchingly distributed.†   (source)
  • Shall I come to you in a more comely shape to convince you that I speak the truth?†   (source)
  • Finally she felt words waiting at a distance while she stood silent, and she began slowly, "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon."†   (source)
  • "I would," he replied, with a hint of sorrow in his eyes, "for she was a good wife to me, and a comely one, but I have waited long and now I have taken another woman."†   (source)
  • She is a buxom Irish peasant, in her early twenties, with a red-cheeked comely face, black hair and blue eyes— amiable, ignorant, clumsy, and possessed by a dense, well-meaning stupidity.†   (source)
  • You are more worthy to wear the armour of elf-princes than many that have looked more comely in it.   (source)
  • Even if his bewildered soul could have forgotten, there was a faithful woman at this pillow, who, with averted eyes, would have covered that aged face, which she had last beheld in the comeliness of manhood.   (source)
    comeliness = attractiveness
  • You said she was comely, and Beth would have a mother.†   (source)
  • But comeliness was an incidental matter.†   (source)
  • The old man …. no one would ever think him comely.†   (source)
  • I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope.†   (source)
  • Euron was the most comely of Lord Quellon's sons, and three years of exile had not changed that.†   (source)
  • He was indeed as comely as Catelyn had suspected he might be.†   (source)
  • You are her perfect prince, agreed, bright and bold and comely as any maid could wish.†   (source)
  • He is seven or eight, comely, with black hair and bright blue eyes.†   (source)
  • He is not half as comely as Rhaegar was.†   (source)
  • She is just as comely as the Tyrell girl.†   (source)
  • He sat by Victarion's elbow in his lambswool tunic of black-andgreen vairy, smooth-faced and comely.†   (source)
  • Younger, bolder, and far more comely ….†   (source)
  • Aerion Brightfire was comely enough, but a monster all the same.†   (source)
  • Ser Jorah had never been what one might call a comely man.†   (source)
  • "Cersei Lannister is comely," she said sharply.†   (source)
  • Enough drink will make blind washerwomen and reeking pig girls seem as comely as you, sweetling.†   (source)
  • Her face was comely, with a small chin, delicate nose, and big brown eyes.†   (source)
  • But comely or no, he might be the only champion she would ever have.†   (source)
  • I should prefer a more comely form, though, than this which I now wear.†   (source)
  • Among mountaineers and other connoisseurs of geologic form, Everest is not regarded as a particularly comely peak.†   (source)
  • Even Eiffel's tower, forecast by wishful Americans to be a monstrosity that would disfigure forever the comely landscape of Paris, turned out to possess unexpected élan, with a sweeping base and tapered shaft that evoked the trail of a skyrocket.†   (source)
  • In November 1891 Burnham ordered MacHarg to investigate five of Waukesha's springs to gauge their capacity and purity, but to do so "quietly," suggesting he was aware that running a pipeline through the village's comely landscape might prove a sensitive issue.†   (source)
  • I know that I had my own conceptions of female comeliness, those naturally developed in the years of my young manhood.†   (source)
  • He was an ugly boy, though admittedly more comely than a certain dwarf with half a nose and a scar from eye to chin.†   (source)
  • He is very …. very comely.†   (source)
  • He was a comely youth, their Sphinx.†   (source)
  • I want to call the simple Korean back to him the way I once could when I was Peter's age, our comely language of distance and bows, by which real secrets may be slowly courted, slowly unveiled.†   (source)
  • Liv says, guiding us into the old village proper, the shops and boutiques lined up in a comely bend of a row, one of those fine doors once mine.†   (source)
  • A comely white woman, with all limbs and other critical body parts intact and exposed, walked in and said to Ontario, "I'm here."†   (source)
  • She is most comely, though I say that not to describe her sexual attraction, which in this forsaken place and to these men any girl or woman would possess, even that annoying shrew Matsui-san.†   (source)
  • Seating was important to comely female lawyers with short skirts and a jury box filled with men, and it was equally important to drugstore cowboys with pointed-toe boots.†   (source)
  • And soon I'd find myself knotted into a hard coil in the bed, the points of my knees jabbing back the stabs of worry in my stomach and chest, and I wondered if in the morning after I left the house for the long walk to school he would be there for me, at my flank again, that comely wall of him, talking his trash and his resplendence, talking me up, too, talking my story.†   (source)
  • And sitting at the wheel I became angry all at once, angry at her lack of care and circumspection, and if she had been in the passenger seat looking at me with her comely palish-pink face and sea-blue eyes, I would have scolded her as hotly as I wished to scold Sunny when she was a teen.†   (source)
  • In their father's final years, after their mother's passing, their sire had taken the comely daughter of a candlemaker as mistress.†   (source)
  • A comely lad in a pretty cloak, he was.†   (source)
  • And then, in the middle distance, when you view the dense overlay of towns and villages laid out in contiguous patches, the multiple strands of the interstates and the parkways running straight through the heart of some and bending deferentially around others, bounded and marked by the shimmering waterways and reservoirs and the gently sloped hills, you feel as though this place in which you stand is a most decent and comely kingdom, even as it is a solemn province of the dead.†   (source)
  • Not all of us can be as comely as you.†   (source)
  • The speaker was a slim, slight, comely youth, clad in doeskin breeches and a snug green brigandine with iron studs.†   (source)
  • A pair of comely serving girls sauntered past carrying a wicker basket of rushes between them, but the sell-sword never looked.†   (source)
  • His face has grown comely, she thought.†   (source)
  • Ser Gerris was all his prince was not: tall and lean and comely, with a swordsman's grace and a courtier's wit.†   (source)
  • She knew him slightly—one of Bronze Yohn's sons, comely in a rough-hewn way, a tourney warrior of some renown.†   (source)
  • The handsome man had a beard of a different color every time she saw him, and a different nose, but he was never less than comely.†   (source)
  • A fair-haired boy, he was, and comely.†   (source)
  • He was thicker about the chest and broader at the shoulders, and though his face was comely enough, he lacked Ser Loras's startling beauty.†   (source)
  • When she looked, she saw more serving wenches than any inn could want, and most of them young and comely.†   (source)
  • This new white knight was not so tall nor comely as the old one, but he was bigger across the chest, burlier, his arms thick with muscle.†   (source)
  • Marillion was comely, there was no denying it; boyish and slender, with smooth skin, sandy hair, a charming smile.†   (source)
  • Sansa had always thought Lancel Lannister comely and well spoken, but there was neither pity nor kindness in the look he gave her.†   (source)
  • Orton Merryweather was not a comely man, with his big lumpish nose and shock of unruly reddish-orange hair, but he was never less than courteous.†   (source)
  • A comely man, but he died ugly.†   (source)
  • He might even have been comely if he'd had ears, but he had lost both along the way, whether to frostbite or some enemy's knife Jon could not tell.†   (source)
  • With his squashed nose, square jaw, and nap of woolly grey hair, Brune could not be called comely, but he was not ugly either.†   (source)
  • Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.†   (source)
  • No one would ever call him comely.†   (source)
  • The boy might have been as comely as his sister, but the broken lip, unfocused eyes, and blood trickling through his matted hair made it hard to be certain.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she would close her eyes and dream of him, but it was never Jorah Mormont she dreamed of; her lover was always younger and more comely, though his face remained a shifting shadow.†   (source)
  • "With so many different mothers, a few of the maids are bound to turn up comely," said Ser Marq Piper, "but why should the old wretch give you a pretty one?"†   (source)
  • They tell me she is comely.†   (source)
  • Comely?†   (source)
  • Merrett had dared to hope that his luck was finally changing when Roose Bolton chose to wed his Walda instead of one of her slimmer, comelier cousins.†   (source)
  • See him there, that angel of the pestilence, comely as Lucifer, shining like Evil's very self!†   (source)
  • "I don't think you would exactly call her pretty; 'comely' is the word I think of in her connection.†   (source)
  • There were no carved doors, large windows, no lintels; no moss; no comely professional houses.†   (source)
  • Hate me for it if I say it again, but you're a comely woman.†   (source)
  • Phebe was her waiting maid, a comely yellow wench somewhat given to the fits and sulls.†   (source)
  • One would have said he had no feeling for comeliness or grace.†   (source)
  • Before the shop the comely matrons of the town came up from the market.†   (source)
  • As he looked at the comely thighs of the young women on horses, fascinated to see their shapely legs split over the strong good smell of a horse, he wondered if the warm sinuous vibration of the great horse-back excited them, and what their love was like.†   (source)
  • Us wor a-teuk when liddle by one of them there gentry, like, as it might be from the mother's breast Ah, doan't 'ee nip our tender vitals, lovely Measter Brock, for ee wor a proper gennel-man, ee wor, and brought us up full comely on cow's milk an' that, all supped out from a lordly dish.†   (source)
  • In its bareness and simplicity there was something comely, as there was about the serious girl who had placed their food before them and who now stood in the shadows against the wall, her eager eyes fixed upon his face.†   (source)
  • The dozen young ladies with whom the house was furnished were comely, if brightly painted, and comported themselves more quietly than those of other houses.†   (source)
  • There were many comely black housewives who, trying desperately to keep up their insurance payments, were willing to make bargains to escape paying a ten-cent premium.†   (source)
  • And as at the first thou hast seen me ugly, brutish, loathly—in the end, beautiful—even so is royal rule: for without battles, without fierce conflict, it may not be won; but in the result, he that is king of no matter what shows comely and handsome forth.†   (source)
  • But thereupon the comely god had summoned him to courage, pouring out to him the wisdom of the Lord, and in the end had opened to him this vision.†   (source)
  • "Comely," admitted the other.†   (source)
  • Let thee sleep in 'em, come summer, come winter, and hunt in 'em for thy commons lest thee starve; and smell to 'em as they brings forward their comely bright leaves, according to order, or loses of 'em by the same order back'ards: let thee stand in 'em that thou be'st not seen, and move in 'em that thou be'st not heard, and warm thee with 'em as thou fall'st on sleep—ah, they'm proper fine pleaces, the 'oods, for a free man of hands and heart" Kay said, "But I thought all Robin Wood's…†   (source)
  • Cass asked, and without waiting for an answer, went on, "Because she's yellow and comely and well-made.†   (source)
  • But I have another thought, which is that we wake each of them in turn, without the knowledge of the other, and whichever is the more enamored shall be judged inferior in comeliness.†   (source)
  • For some weeks now it had been occupied by Mrs. Selborne's South Carolina cook, Annie, a plump comely negress of thirty-five, with a rich coppery skin.†   (source)
  • A handsome woman she had grown to be, with her comely figure and the deep claret colour under the golden brown of her cheeks.†   (source)
  • Going in with him, they observed that all was neat and comely, and the wife, a young woman of beautiful countenance, was stirring porridge by the fire.†   (source)
  • Descending the dark stairs of the Medical Building slowly, Mrs. Thomas Hewitt, the comely wife of the prominent attorney (of Arthur, Hewitt, and Grey), turned out into the light, and advanced slowly toward the avenue.†   (source)
  • He loved the towering peaks of his native mountains, the comeliness of the villages, the cleanness of the country-side, the beautiful lines and cloisters of his own college.†   (source)
  • He looked at her attentively, noting with pleasure her firm uncorseted hips, moulded compactly into her tailored suit, and her cocked comely legs tapering to graceful feet, shod in neat little slippers of tan.†   (source)
  • Some were young and comely, and most of these seemed agitated by excitement or distress.†   (source)
  • He is not a very quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, sound at heart.†   (source)
  • The women, one middle-aged, the others young, were of comely, serious aspect.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't have cared, she insisted, if the people had been comely.†   (source)
  • Tom caught a glimpse of a girl's rather comely face peering out of the front of a wagon.†   (source)
  • She was not particularly comely and there was a black smudge on the side of her nose.†   (source)
  • MISS TESMAN is a comely and pleasantlooking lady of about sixty-five.†   (source)
  • She was eighteen, the youngest of his brood, squat, and in no way comely save for her tender mouth.†   (source)
  • Well, I hope my young friend will like such a comely sample of his own blood.†   (source)
  • She was a slight, comely little woman, with keen, earnest, dark eyes.†   (source)
  • A nervous, comely-dressed little girl stepped out.†   (source)
  • Once she had evidently been a woman of some comeliness.†   (source)
  • Your comeliness is law with Mr. Wildeve.†   (source)
  • That these even sell the more comely of their womenfolk for gain.†   (source)
  • Had disease laid her hand heavy upon his strength and comeliness?†   (source)
  • For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.†   (source)
  • A comely respectable body like her—what can a man want more?†   (source)
  • Her face was shapely, intelligent, and comely—even beautiful.†   (source)
  • It was Amelia, but how changed from the fresh and comely girl Osborne knew.†   (source)
  • All were at least comely, and one of them very handsome and regular of feature.†   (source)
  • The comeliness of the Roman was severe and chaste, that of the Jew rich and voluptuous.†   (source)
  • "Marry me to a woman who is not adorned with the comeliness of the species!" responded the Doctor.†   (source)
  • Todd is a comely man to look on, and despu't pretty.†   (source)
  • The young man faced me the apparition of his father in comely youth.†   (source)
  • By the Lord, it is no longer than a child's and yet the maidens are tall and comely.†   (source)
  • Here's long life and happiness to neighbour Oak and his comely bride!"†   (source)
  • "Why, Judith, Deerslayer isn't in the least comely, and is altogether unfit for one like you!"†   (source)
  • If I were younger and comelier though, like Jasper Eau-douce—†   (source)
  • Well, you look it," and Jo's eye plainly betrayed that she found her boy comelier than ever.†   (source)
  • That it is unworthy of any thoughtful, and meek, and comely woman.†   (source)
  • "Your daughter is comely," he said, speaking lower.†   (source)
  • " "One might be guilty of worse things—but you're by no means ugly; though not so comely as Jude."†   (source)
  • Judith stammered at the words—"there are officers in the garrisons, near us, far comelier than he.†   (source)
  • His features, cast in large mold, were clean-cut and comely, and he had frank blue eyes, somewhat sad, yet still full of spirit.†   (source)
  • Now the hand of Henry Jekyll (as you have often remarked) was professional in shape and size: it was large, firm, white, and comely.†   (source)
  • It was a trying, though rather unjust thought, for Carrie had now developed an equally pleasing figure, and had grown in comeliness until she was a thoroughly attractive type of her color of beauty.†   (source)
  • Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates.†   (source)
  • He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!†   (source)
  • They wore shawls or hoods and their garments were somber, but, nevertheless, they appeared to have youth and comeliness.†   (source)
  • SO HE CAME HIMSELF IN WEAKNESS NOT IN POWER AND HE SENT THEE, A CREATURE IN HIS STEAD, WITH A CREATURES COMELINESS AND LUSTRE SUITED TO OUR STATE.†   (source)
  • But what Lord Grenville thought of this matter, or to what reflections this comely tirade of Lady Portarles led the Comtesse de Tournay, remained unspoken, for the curtain had just risen on the third act of ORPHEUS, and admonishments to silence came from every part of the house.†   (source)
  • But 'tis always the comeliest!†   (source)
  • Ann is a well formed creature, as far as that goes; and she is perfectly ladylike, graceful, and comely, with ensnaring eyes and hair.†   (source)
  • And what a comely, sweet and gentle face he hath, now that sleep hath conjured away its troubles and its griefs.†   (source)
  • As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.†   (source)
  • A gracious table light, emanating from a bowl of spicy pinks, fell upon Mrs. Abrams' face, cooked to a turn in Veuve Cliquot, full of vigor, tolerance, adolescent good will; next to her sat Mr. Royal Dumphry, his girl's comeliness less startling in the pleasure world of evening.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was exactly like Lena, I told her; a comely woman, a trifle too plump, in a hat a trifle too large, but with the old lazy eyes, and the old dimpled ingenuousness still lurking at the corners of her mouth.†   (source)
  • Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David.†   (source)
  • She believed that details could excitingly be altered, but that things-in-general were comely and kind and immutable.†   (source)
  • Wash was himself a comely youth.†   (source)
  • He liked Madeline's tall comeliness and her vigor; he felt that with her energetic culture she was somehow "good for him.†   (source)
  • The third wife, much younger, had a comely face, and long braids of black hair, of which, evidently, she was proud.†   (source)
  • One said— "He hath a comely face."†   (source)
  • …him, and who, when his brain had sickened and grown strange, could only be soothed by Saracen cards painted with the images of Love and Death and Madness; and, in his trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap and acanthus-like curls, Grifonetto Baglioni, who slew Astorre with his bride, and Simonetto with his page, and whose comeliness was such that, as he lay dying in the yellow piazza of Perugia, those who had hated him could not choose but weep, and Atalanta, who had cursed him, blessed him.†   (source)
  • "A comely maid that," said the other.†   (source)
  • The Lady Elizabeth, my sister, is fourteen, and the Lady Jane Grey, my cousin, is of mine own age, and comely and gracious withal; but my sister the Lady Mary, with her gloomy mien and—Look you: do thy sisters forbid their servants to smile, lest the sin destroy their souls?†   (source)
  • Mother Ruth, August's second wife, was younger than Mother Mary, more comely of face, and more sad and serious of expression.†   (source)
  • In the darkness the young reporter found himself imagining that he sat on the railroad ties beside a comely young man with black hair and black shining eyes.†   (source)
  • Within was a comely boy, tanned and brown with sturdy outdoor sports and exercises, whose clothing was all of lovely silks and satins, shining with jewels; at his hip a little jewelled sword and dagger; dainty buskins on his feet, with red heels; and on his head a jaunty crimson cap, with drooping plumes fastened with a great sparkling gem.†   (source)
  • True, comely enough.†   (source)
  • She bloomed herself, indeed, and was a comely, comfortable, reasonable woman, and a favourite with her clever brother, who, in the matter of women, even when they were nearly related to him, was a man of distinct preferences.†   (source)
  • Parmenitch, a talkative, comely old man, gave Levin a very warm welcome, showed him all he was doing, told him everything about his bees and the swarms of that year; but gave vague and unwilling answers to Levin's inquiries about the mowing.†   (source)
  • A glow of artistic approval brightened over Alice Pyncheon's face; she was struck with admiration—which she made no attempt to conceal—of the remarkable comeliness, strength, and energy of Maule's figure.†   (source)
  • I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.†   (source)
  • She lost her colour, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely.†   (source)
  • His figure was somewhat slight, but manly and well formed; and, apart from all the grace of youth and comeliness, there was an emanation from the warm young heart in his look and bearing which kept the old man down.†   (source)
  • Much there was the treasure, From far ways forsooth had the fret-work been led: Never heard I of keel that was comelier dighted With weapons of war, and with weed of the battle, With bills and with byrnies.†   (source)
  • But, dear heart, we all have our little weaknesses, and find it easy to pardon such in the young, who satisfy our eyes with their comeliness, and keep our hearts merry with their artless vanities.†   (source)
  • "Hold!" exclaimed the proprietor of the condemned animal, aloud, without regard to the whispering tones used by the others; "spare the foal of Miriam! it is the comely offspring of a faithful dam, and would willingly injure naught."†   (source)
  • _ Our Scotch lassies are fair and pleasant; but it must be owned these colonials are of surpassing comeliness.†   (source)
  • There will be a merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.†   (source)
  • No fear of me, Judith—no fear of me, my good gal. Do not look this-a-way, although you look so pleasant and comely, but keep your eyes on the rock, and the shore, and the-†   (source)
  • He was blessed with a natural impulse to disfigure with a direct, unreasoning blow the comely visage of temptation.†   (source)
  • The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic[210] by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man.†   (source)
  • The cloud that Clennam had never seen upon his face before that morning, frequently overcast it again; and there was the same shadow of uneasy observation of him on the comely face of his wife.†   (source)
  • Ada blushed, and Mr. Boythorn, trotting forward on his comely grey horse, dismounted at his own door and stood ready with extended arm and uncovered head to welcome us when we arrived.†   (source)
  • As she sat in Mrs. Tulliver's arm-chair, no impartial observer could have denied that for a woman of fifty she had a very comely face and figure, though Tom and Maggie considered their aunt Glegg as the type of ugliness.†   (source)
  • She was a comely enough creature, and soft and modest, but, if signs went for anything, she didn't know as much as a lady's watch.†   (source)
  • This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appreciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak.†   (source)
  • I have heard the singing of the sirens, and the strains of the shepherds' pipes; I have touched the wings of comely devils who flew down to converse with me of God….†   (source)
  • A comely, fresh-looking old man was conducting the service with that mild solemnity which has so elevating and soothing an effect on the souls of the worshipers.†   (source)
  • She is as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres; and her dark face, with its delicate aquiline nose, firm proud mouth, and small, intense, black eye, is so keen and sarcastic in its expression that you instinctively substitute a pack of cards for the chess-men and imagine her telling your fortune.†   (source)
  • From the curtains in Benton's house, down the road, a dark comely face is staring at the strangers; for passing carriages are not every-day occurrences here.†   (source)
  • They formed a very comely picture of love at full flush, as they walked along the valley that late afternoon, the sun sloping down on their right, and throwing their thin spectral shadows, tall as poplar trees, far out across the furze and fern.†   (source)
  • The Widow Cooper—affectionately called "Aunt Patsy" by everybody—lived in a snug and comely cottage with her daughter Rowena, who was nineteen, romantic, amiable, and very pretty, but otherwise of no consequence.†   (source)
  • I grieve for the maiden, for she is of fair and comely countenance,—I beheld her in the lists of Ashby.†   (source)
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