She is not ill-favoured, but she is poor and thin. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Buckingham, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard the Third] Reference
This was to the ill-favoured person with the broken nose. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
And a well-fed, ill-favoured gentleman he was, as ever served. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Babies] Reference
Gothick Buttresses are all ill-favoured, and were avoided by the Ancients. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
They are no longer the squalid, filthy, and ill-favoured race they formerly were. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
She was plump-cheeked, as I've said, and under the grime by no means ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
She was lame and singularly ill-favoured, but her manners were spirited and amusing. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Externally, the juice will cleanse and heal foul ulcers, and ill-favoured eruptions. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It cannot be denied that the academic expression "Literature" is an ill-favoured word. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
It was truly the most ill-favoured sector on the whole of the front held by our armies. From Wordnik.com. [Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery] Reference
Although singularly ill-favoured, he had personal qualities which attracted men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
To this same class we may refer the lover and beloved, the beautiful and the ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
I regarded my hard-won and ill-favoured pledges of a meal with giddiness and discouragement. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Presently, up came two ill-favoured fellows and said to him, Come, O man, and speak with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I am not yet a brother of the marriage-noose, as thou art; as I guess by thy ill-favoured phiz?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Canidia upon it, than to paint Canidia as she was, who, Horace sweareth, was foul and ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Bathing on certain days, women were sure to become lovely, on others they would become ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Later Edmund Burke called the province of Nova Scotia Can unprospering, hard-visaged and ill-favoured brat '. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's New Status] Reference
Actually, so far as he could judge, the majority of people in Airstrip One were small, dark, and ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
We turned our backs on the hospitable white Customs House and the ill-favoured sea with a muttered imprecation. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
And she loved Marian Leslie also, though Marian was so sweet and lovely and she herself so harsh and ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
“Aweel, Tibb, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
She did not mean to be unnecessarily harsh, but she did mean to be decided, and as she spoke her face became stern and ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
As often, however, as the knights were helped to meat and drink, the figure of Swanhilda at the board was presented by an ill-favoured. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Pray did you observe, continued Epistemon, how this damned ill-favoured Semiquaver mentioned March as the best month for caterwauling?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
He was a wealthy man, ill-favoured to look upon, but swift of foot, and had asked that his reward should be the horses and the chariot of. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
"How should the ill-favoured Knight deal in gallantries?" said Du. From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
She was neither old nor ill-favoured, and she was most evidently nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Little Citizens] Reference
Sir Charles Hardy, whose name (934) at least is ill-favoured, is removed, and old. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
I saw a man extremely well dressed, but with a particularly ill-favoured countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Manon Lescaut] Reference
There's the class tension, plain but never explicit: what's a girl of good family doing with that ill-favoured yob?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com] Reference
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