Strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a confident and prepossessing young man. From Dictionary.com.
Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin?. From Wordnik.com. [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference
His person and attitudes, also, were most prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
A doctor of prepossessing appearance came from the latter. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
The American cemetery is more prepossessing in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Green is not, in fact, a particularly prepossessing figure. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Easy Being Green?] Reference
There was nothing prepossessing in Freddie Dirk's appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The fellow was far from prepossessing looking, to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
He looked like a seafaring man, and was not a prepossessing person. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
He was a tall, spare man, with rugged, but yet prepossessing features. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Certainly this approach to the town could not be said to be prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
The invitation was given with an offhand cordiality decidedly prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
To the most casual observer Guy Molyneux must have been singularly prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Never had she seemed less prepossessing to her youthful adorer than at that moment. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The stranger was a shrewd-looking young man of moderately prepossessing appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
A lawyer by profession, about 26 years of age and very prepossessing in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference
The man's clothing was unkempt, and his general appearance anything but prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
I am sure our Jacob is most prepossessing in manner and appearance, like his namesake. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
The man was standing near a motor-cycle, and neither looked particularly prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference
With his crooked back and one eye, he was anything but a prepossessing-looking creature. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Our hero having taken a good look at the not very prepossessing face, returned to his seat. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
She is a young woman of about seventeen years, rather prepossessing and intelligent looking. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
It was variously received by the audience, many of whose countenances were far from prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I found in M. M.rtel an officer as much distinguished by his acquirements as by his prepossessing exterior. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Poe had a remarkably pleasing and prepossessing countenance -- what the ladies would call decidedly handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
His physiognomy was agreeable and prepossessing: to a natural eloquence he joined uncommon sweetness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
By this time Louis saw that the confidence man had stopped at one of the most prepossessing houses on the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
In appearance he was a Cuban or Spaniard, well dressed and prosperous looking, but not of prepossessing appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
My appearance was certainly not very prepossessing, unshaven as I was, and with my clothes and linen soiled and torn. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
My glance was fixed upon his very prepossessing face and I did not at the moment notice the gentleman who followed him. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
These are planarian worms, and though not of prepossessing appearance generally, are extremely interesting animals to study. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
All present were struck with it expressiveness as they also were favorably impressed by his noble and prepossessing manners. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
One morning, as I was sitting at breakfast in not a very cheerful mood, a woman, of not very prepossessing appearance, entered. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The front door was opened by two men-servants of none too prepossessing appearance, who came down the steps as the car pulled up. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Capitol, -- Washington was much the less prepossessing village of the two, and I thought how much more worthy was our own city of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
His voice and manner were scarcely less prepossessing; the one was as abrupt and clamorous, as the other was rustic and ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
His pigship was a runt, as Mr. Hildreth had said, and deprived of his fair share of nourishment was bony and far from prepossessing. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
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