Sample Sentences forprepossessing (auto-selected)
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As to my situation — Kingston is not a very prepossessing town, as it was burned to the ground some two decades ago and has been rebuilt with charmless dispatch.† (source)
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They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.† (source)
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Marguerite said nothing for a moment or two, as she surveyed with obvious delight the not very prepossessing little figure before her.† (source)
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It did not seem very prepossessing.† (source)
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I'm not prepossessing.† (source)
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Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin?† (source)
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Attracted by his prepossessing appearance, he renewed his offers of an engagement to Dantes; but Dantes, who had his own projects, would not agree for a longer time than three months.† (source)
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He seemed about five-and-twenty years of age, and was of the middle height; his countenance was frank and handsome; and his demeanor easy and prepossessing.† (source)
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The situation was not prepossessing—Augustine was a strong woman and could be disarmed only at the risk of serious results to herself—and severe legal complications which were the lot of one who molested a French citizen.† (source)
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They're not a prepossessing-looking couple.'† (source)
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—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.† (source)
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She was young, probably not over twenty-five, and not quite so prepossessing at close range.† (source)
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As everybody knows, fine feathers make fine birds; a peasant girl but very moderately prepossessing to the casual observer in her simple condition and attire will bloom as an amazing beauty if clothed as a woman of fashion with the aids that Art can render; while the beauty of the midnight crush would often cut but a sorry figure if placed inside the field-woman's wrapper upon a monotonous acreage of turnips on a dull day.† (source)
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A few paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity.† (source)
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For the rest, he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.† (source)
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She had large black eyes and her nose was slightly aquiline; in profile she had somewhat the look of a bird of prey, but full face she was prepossessing.† (source)
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