Adjective, : a comely face. ,comely behavior. From Dictionary.com.
So, were not the beard even as the tresses in comeliness, it had not been coupled with them, O silly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Like a fir-tree growing in a barren plain; Her comeliness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
What brighter vision is there than her comeliness and grace!. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
Glory is the sweetness, comeliness, purity, and perfection of a thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
It is sown dry, and without comeliness; it riseth green and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Indeed, in comeliness, he is like Kandarpa himself in his embodied form. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Far be it from me to depreciate physical symmetry and personal comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
And without saying anything, they mentally paid him homage, 'Oh, what comeliness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Sometimes he becomes ugly and sometimes as possessed of great comeliness of person. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
We rejoice in our strength and comeliness, scarcely thinking that we owe it all to the. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
He had considerable to show, for his tiny plantation was a model of thrift and comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
Revolution, and adopted her into his family on account of her comeliness and natural graces. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference
In Mayfield's street even the new houses have caught comeliness from their venerable neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
In all their structures they employ materials quite gross and unhewn, void of fashion and comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
Mildred Chase greeted Persis with a smile so radiant as to give a misleading impression of comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.". From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
Thy beauty and gracefulness are of the very first order and the comeliness of thy features is unparalleled. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Norway, resembles most other things that bear, seductively, external comeliness, and carry an antidote unseen. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Her mother looked mollified, and gazed at the girl's pretty face with satisfaction in its comeliness for a few moments in silence. From Wordnik.com. [Women of the Country] Reference
To a people addicted to the idolatry of perfect form and comeliness, no object could be more attractive than the queen of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618: a man famous for his personal strength and comeliness, vigor of mind, valor, adventures, and sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
He was strong and active, and handsome in appearance, and there was no one in the country round equal to him either in strength or comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Ta-meri sank back in her chair and regarded him from under dreamy lids -- her senses charmed, her light heart won by his comeliness and talent. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Hephæstus thus revenged himself on his mother for the cruelty she had always displayed towards him, on account of his want of comeliness and grace. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Nay; for, in the profligate experience of capitals, the sage is saddened with the knowledge that comeliness, at best, is but an exquisite hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
It took England many centuries to accomplish this work, and fashion herself into the plastic form and comeliness of her present unity and proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The lower part of thy body, capable of captivating the female heart by its comeliness was made of flowers by the goddess herself -- the wife of Mahadeva. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
All those nice little fancies that should have grown into real flesh-and-blood articles for my publisher, hung up to dry and shrivel without shape or comeliness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
The house at Runiroi was a comfortable, old, rambling structure, in a green yard and flower garden, not ugly, but quite innocent of any pretensions at comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
There are others equally good and talented who are not blessed with comeliness, who are not bright and winning in conversation, who are awkward in dress and manner. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
She greatly surpassed the other two in elegance of figure and comeliness of face; but in nothing was her superiority more remarkable than in the beauty of her locks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Hence they grow old beardless and their young men are 128 without comeliness, because a face furrowed by the sword spoils by its scars the natural beauty of a beard. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference
He is a handsome man, with keen hazel eyes set far back under brows as dark as a Spaniard's, but his face, for all its comeliness, is almost forbidding in its sternness. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
A feast for the eyes of a host, to gaze on their comeliness and their garb, as if it was going forth to some great surpassing assembly was each single man of that company. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
His face was half averted, but I instantly approved the Doctor's taste, for the profile which I saw possessed all the attributes of comeliness belonging to his mixed race. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
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