The women are short and thick-set, and most uncomely. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
She had a longish pale face, not uncomely, and soft brown hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
Even changed as I was, I was surely not that uncomely ... was I?. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
She gazed at the uncomely seated figure out of wide, staring eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
The women were not uncomely, nor did they dress in outlandish manner. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
Maytera Mint's small, not uncomely face shone with energy and resolve. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
She had become so uncomely that he could not understand his infatuation at. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Now some painters there are that paint uncomely actions; as Timotheus drew. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Mrs. Harvey Dillon and Myrtle Cass, an uncomely but intense girl of nineteen. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
The works of Dædalus are described by Pausanias as rude and uncomely in aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
This uncomely fashion prevails with both matron, and maid, while among the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
Now by uncomely parts he means the baser members, and by comely parts the beautiful members. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Which was when disaster, that most uncomely of all possibilities, smiled callously upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Here is a miracle, for this that is beautiful, is only a changed form of that which was uncomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Though our forms may be uncomely and our features not the prettiest, our spirits may be beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The rough-looking youth, whom I had once thought so uncomely, had changed to a really fine looking man. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Duty, and Other Stories] Reference
In refusing to comb his hair like a prig, he did not go to the extreme of making himself horridly uncomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
Green, probably, for most eyes are green — green or grey, if green be thought uncomely for an eye-colour. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Savia is well fed and plump, despite her present incarceration, and was probably not uncomely a score of years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
This uncomely being had the unhealthy complexion, hollow eyes, slouching mien, and straggling beard common to his tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference
He clapped his hands and a small regiment of women-servants, black and for the most part uncomely, arrived to prepare dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
You could have wished her attire of a newer fashion: in a well-cut, well-made gown, hers would have been no uncomely presence. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
And Mayakin filled the air with a jarring, hasty laughter, at which his goat-like beard began to tremble in an uncomely manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
I'm of the belief that most Hawaiian shirts make their owners look fat, uncomely, bloated and somewhat racist, but not this shirt. From Wordnik.com. [put some english on it] Reference
She was plump, not uncomely but beginning to fade, a widow who had three children to nurture and, maybe, a dream or two of her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
The cotton-broker noticed the action, but silently touched his hat, and passed with a significant smile on his uncomely countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Funny how that huge, bustling, dirty, crowded, stinky city could be so elegantly transformed by something so uncomely as a winter storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Sudden Curve:] Reference
They had the daring trespasser on their domain treed, and almost within their reach; and, indeed, to keep out of the way of their uncomely claws. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
And though he deemed it uncomely to inaugurate his first campaign with a wedding, yet, moved by gratitude for the preservation of his safety, he kept his promise. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Then said Thorkill: "In good truth, I do not remember ever to have seen a household with more uncomely noses; nor have I ever come to a spot where I had less mind to live.". From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
And such as we think to be the less houourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
They are particularly uncomely Jews, Arabs, and negroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
I was then a young man of about three and twenty years of age and not uncomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin of the Sun] Reference
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