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
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
Described as "the most comely woman in the Seven Kingdoms," Hightower has both "courtly grace and a keen political acumen."
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2020
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
Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked-by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.
From "A Dance with Dragons" 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
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
And the chorus whom these trappings adorn are the comeliest that have stretched the necks of metropolitan audiences this year.
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
Like other solar heroes, he grew very rapidly; when he was four he was as big as if he were eight, and the comeliest youth that ever was seen.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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