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Definition
attractive — especially of a woman
- She wouldn't have cared, she insisted, if the people had been comely.Chapter 4 (31% in)
- Though they had all been certain that they longed for the privilege of attending committee meetings and rehearsals, the dramatic association as definitely formed consisted only of Kennicott, Carol, Guy Pollock, Vida Sherwin, Ella Stowbody, the Harry Haydocks, the Dave Dyers, Raymie Wutherspoon, Dr. Terry Gould, and four new candidates: flirtatious Rita Simons, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Dillon and Myrtle Cass, an uncomely but intense girl of nineteen.Chapter 17 (29% in)
- She believed that details could excitingly be altered, but that things-in-general were comely and kind and immutable.Chapter 21 (43% in)
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