comely
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As for the pictures, they’re shrouded in ominous shadows, but although the raven’s eyes burn like embers, the bird does nothing worse than cry “nevermore,” and Lenore, when she appears, looks downright comely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
And it actually worked, thanks to its comely co-stars and a little help — OK, a lot of help — from TikTok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Was she too fancy to have her dental work performed by a comely rattlesnake in the Badlands, as is custom in South Dakota?
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
"You are the most comely girl at court," her father tells her.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
"You said she was comely, and Beth would have a mother."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
It was like a Louis C. K. bit in a much comelier frame.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville.
From Time Magazine Archive
“That’s like her. Well, you look it,” and Jo’s eye plainly betrayed that she found her boy comelier than ever.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Poverty, thou hast been seen Clad in a comelier mien.
From City Ballads by Will Carleton
The phantom that haunts the eccentric Japanese rock opera “Inu-oh” is not the comeliest of creatures — not at first, anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Of the daughters of Dwight Whitney Morrow, Constance, 16, is the comeliest; Anne, 24, the most famed; Elisabeth, 27, the liveliest.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the chorus whom these trappings adorn are the comeliest that have stretched the necks of metropolitan audiences this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that they are two of Chicago's comeliest young girls, have been well publicized by their headline-hunting parent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside him stood Euryalus, his fere; Scarce on his cheeks the down of manhood grew, The comeliest youth that donned the Trojan gear.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing comely
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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