The people of that country by chance found him with his hawk, and presented him as a sort of prodigy to Edmund, king of the East Angles, who, for the sake of his comely person, gave him an honourable reception.
John Fitz, who was "a very comely person," was married before he had attained his majority to a daughter of Sir William Courtenay.
Green rushes then, and sweetest bents, With cooler oaken boughs, Come in for comely ornaments, To readorn the house.
She was a well-fed, cheerful, and comely creature with a genius for housekeeping.
The comely young woman rose from the supper-table and took both his hands in hers.
She saw indeed a woman fit for sweet usages of love, comely and rounded, deep-bosomed, her oval face framed in the piled masses of glorious red-brown hair.
He saw, standing near the door, a tall and comely young man, whose carriage betokened him not ill-born.
She had one of the purtiest gooseberry eyes in Europe; and only for the squint in the other, it would have been the ornament of her comely face entirely; but as it was, no human bein' was ever able to decide between them.
His Helpmate was a comely matron, old--[9] Though younger than himself full twenty years.
That shout the vassal heard 5 And saddled his best Steed, a comely grey; Sir Walter mounted him; he was the third Which he had mounted on that glorious day.
Lavender stockings, speaking in generalities, are reminders that good and evil walk on equally comely legs.
Teutonia on her rump, helmet tilted over an eye, hair down, comely and unmilitary legs thrust out, showing her drawers and laughing.
She admired to see what a comelypersonage he was, now he was dressed in all parts; she thought him some king or hero: and secretly wished that the gods would be pleased to give her such a husband.
So amid a swirling cloud of dust the fallen hero was dragged along, with his dark locks streaming, and that comely head marred and defiled; and Zeus delivered him to injury and outrage at the hands of his enemies in his own native land.
And as droops the poppyflower in a fair garden plot, heavy with its seed-pod, and drenched with the summer rains, so drooped that comely head, oppressed by the weight of its helmet.
One of these was Simocisius, a tall and comely youth, so named because he was born on the banks of the Simocis, when his mother went to visit her parents on their farm.
At the sight of his princely countenance and golden hair, his comely and commanding beauty, made more touching by youth, a thrill of compassionate admiration ran through that assembly of the brave and fair.
Mrs. Egger and her comely young barefooted daughter had still the milking to attend to, and supper must wait for the other chores.
Everybody about the place was barefooted, except the mistress, including the comely daughter of eighteen, who served our dinner in the kitchen.
Spike was comely then, though I acknowledge he's a willian.
In her youth, as has been said before, she had even been pretty, and down to the day when her husband deserted her, she would have been thought a female of a comely appearance rather than the reverse.
As he advanced through the years of infancy and youth, his form appeared more comely than those of his brothers, and in look, speech, and manners he was more graceful than they.
A little below him sat the master of the horse, who was of a comely stature, but not so tall as Cyrus, for which reason the stature of the latter appeared still more advantageously.
His main quality seems to have been personal beauty: "never was seen man or woman of fairer face than he and he was the most comely of men:" he was especially famed for beautiful teeth which in old age he bound about with gold wire.
Her housings were of white silk covered by a prayer-carpet of Cashmere stuff, and on her back sat a Shaykh, an old man of comely presence and reverend aspect, garbed in a gown of white wool.
That it is unworthy of any thoughtful, and meek, and comely woman.
This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appre- ciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak.
The young burgomaster was so delighted with Manka's cleverness and so pleased with her comely looks that he proposed to her at once and in a short time married her.
If she's as comely as she is clever, I think I'd like to marry her.
Four comely Japanese girls brought thick cotton quilts for the visitors to sit upon, and braziers full of burning charcoal that they might warm themselves.
Looks," says the comely dame, passing on to the next stall, "as if it had been starved upon the milk of one.
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