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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

The bit was funny enough, but I was aware while watching it that it wouldn't have worked at all if Colbert had been putting a comely actress through the paces.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

Thus, the only craft little practised among them was shoe-making; but they had long and skilful fingers and could make many other useful and comely things.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

She had grown up to be a strong, hearty girl, a little short and square in figure,--what is usually called "buxom:" she would have been classed with the comelier half of the village girls.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

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

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

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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax