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prepossessing
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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)
  • It did not seem very prepossessing.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.†  (source)
  • Near at hand it was decidedly not prepossessing.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Marguerite said nothing for a moment or two, as she surveyed with obvious delight the not very prepossessing little figure before her.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • But he WAS in love with her, the prepossessing young man; and all these restrictions of circumstance had ended by irritating him.†  (source)
  • 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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