He was a personable man, but his lips were thin, and there was a suggestion of half-contemptuous weariness in his face.
As she and Catia were well aware, Scott Brenton was the one really personable man upon the horizon of their village life, the only man who seemed to have it in him to translate a wife out of that humdrum village into the seething world beyond.
He was personable though advancing to middle age, and handsome as men go, though his eyes were close-set and cunning.
And it must by no means be supposed that Georgiana was in the habit of experiencing this sort of wish every time she set eyes upon a personable man.
Personable men had been many in her acquaintance during the four years of her college life, and more than one of them had followed her back to the old manse to urge his claim upon her attention.
He was certain that she was pretty--her writing had the unconscious assurance of a personable being.
The outer circle is quite extensive, embracing all the personable young men "who are not embarrassed with antecedents," as one of our number said.
Big, lovable, personable auntie, could the pity of it be that she was always submitting?
He never referred to the fact that in his personable youth he had married a wife whose fortune, if it had not been squandered, might have restored his own.
There are millions of pretty women, and billions of personable men, but the man or woman of entire physical beauty may cross one's pathway only once in a lifetime--or not at all.
After all maidens of her still tender age are not precisely adamant--such at least was his experience--where a personable youth is concerned.
She was certainly growing a tall, shapely, personable lass.
He didn't demand the full capacity of one's attention; he was personable and low-key; he allowed one to relax.
Not only was he personable and well-dressed but he knew the bride as well as I did and would have no difficulty engaging in conversation with the other guests.
If my experience is any indication of the quality of the residency in hospitals, I found the staff to be most personable if treated likewise.
I felt extremely lucky to have been placed with such a personable lady, as television is a poor excuse for companionship (unless one is sharing a room with an unpleasant and irrational whiner!
If you were a personable and feminine creature, it was necessary to look as much like an attractive boy as possible when you were doing War Work.
The athletic and personable young actor--entitled upon programmes Owen Delamore--was striding to and fro talking excitedly.
I have seldom seen a more personable man than you were then, before you took to that filthy custom of making a beast of yourself; but now your face is all over blotches, and your nose is so red you might fire a cannon with it.
They're none of them worth looking at except the countess, and she's always a personable woman, and not so lusty as she was.
The two ladies went forth with Jimmy, and as I saw them go I could but acknowledge my rival to be a personable fellow.
Sherlock Holmes and Little Lord Fauntleroy were both personable fellows in their way, and it is useless to deny Jimmy's possession of the picked attributes of each.
My boy,' he said, in his best Lord Chesterfield manner, 'you have contracted a valuable acquaintance with that very personable and shrewd young financier whom you introduced to us at Ascot.
Notwithstanding a slightly receding chin and a somewhat weedy frame, he was a personable being, and Jacob stifled a sigh of envy as he realised that he would never be able to wear a Guards' tie with his lounge suit.
He was a brown-haired man, personable despite his ungainliness, but he failed to perceive that to worship from afar off is not the best way to capture a young woman with large eyes and an emotional disposition.
She had the hide of an alligator herself (though a personable girl), and she assumed that her husband's hide was of similar stuff.
I flatter myself I was a morepersonable youth than to be likened to Watford with his swollen nose.
Mr. Bickford was a very personable man," she hastened to say, the confidences were so intimate and interesting.
