comely
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The Celtic crosses seem to be everywhere as our Uber takes us from Edinburgh Airport to our Airbnb in the Comely Bank part of town.
From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2017
Saddest Cry for Attention: Comely nurse Jamie, who was kicked off for the show for what amounted to overwhelming awkwardness and poor kissing etiquette, threw her hat back into the ring with Ben.
From Time • Mar. 6, 2012
He previously admitted delaying 1,628 packets between 12 June and 23 July 2009 at Edinburgh North West Delivery Office, Comely Bank, Edinburgh.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2010
Comely, brown-haired, hazel-eyed, a teetotaling Baptist, she gave up stenography because it interfered with her avocation.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had lived since his marriage at Comely Bank, but had cherished more or less all the time the purpose of retiring to his wife’s farm of Craigenputtock, a solitary moorland place in Dumfriesshire.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
Vocabulary lists containing comely
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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