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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

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

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019

From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

But if you are anxious to match your girls with the comelier women of other countries—you have a perfectly clean palette, as my old friend Charles Dana Gibson would put it.

From The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond

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

In Die Meistersinger last week the Eva was one of the comeliest young women who has ever made an operatic debut.

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

One of the comeliest beauty queens of the Orient, Sirikit Kitiyakara, who is also Queen of Thailand, turned up to open a new hospital in Bangkok, enchanted her subjects with her quiet charm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind her throng amain The Trojans, with Iulus, blithe and bold, And good Æneas, with the rest, as fain, 154 Joins in, and steps along, the comeliest of the train.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor