A personage of prepossessing appearance was lolling on a couch of an appearance equally prepossessing.
This was the personage of prepossessing appearance who had presented Popanilla with a perpetual ticket to his picture gallery.
If she remains a widow, it is only from choice, for she is very prepossessing and has plenty of suitors.
Thus attired, he was scarcely more prepossessingin appearance than Lecoq, and one would have hesitated before deciding which of the two it would be preferable to meet at night on a deserted highway.
After the lapse of a minute the door was opened by a maid-servant of no very cleanly or prepossessing appearance, of whom I demanded, in a tone of some hauteur, whether the master of the house was at home.
She was not the most prepossessing person I ever beheld, it is true, but it is scarcely possible to describe the pleasure I felt at even seeing a new face.
I never saw a less prepossessing fellow, or one better framed by the hand of nature for a gaoler.
That last retort from such a prepossessing girl, completed the havoc in the Count's susceptible heart.
Presently a gentleman of very prepossessing appearance entered, and Ray, arising, was astonished to behold, instead of the invalid he had pictured to himself, a man in the prime of life and apparently in perfect health.
Five minutes later an elderly and singularlyprepossessing man entered and saluted his visitor in a gracious and respectful manner.
I found her with a man in a clerical garb, and of a benevolent and prepossessing countenance.
But with all these traits of beauty, there were one or two drawbacks, both in feature and expression, which rendered his aspect by no means so prepossessing as it otherwise might have been.
Indeed I had rarely before witnessed so prepossessing a figure.
The appearance of this man was prepossessing in the highest degree, displaying as it did every requisite of mind and body that can ennoble and dignify manly beauty.
As I passed through the gate, I was met by a man of prepossessing appearance, dressed in the eastern fashion, who offered to shew me all over the palace, saying that I would thus save my money.
The officer who relieved my cross-grained Castilian on the following day seemed of a different nature altogether; his prepossessing countenance pleased me much.
She had fallen a sacrifice to an inconsiderate affection for a young man of prepossessing manners, as he had been informed, but of a very dangerous and desperate character.
Just then, Kelson, happening to look behind him, saw a young woman of prepossessing appearance ascending the steps of a dive in Clay Street.
And although Shiel saw in Lilian Rosenberg only a ratherprepossessing girl from whom, after cultivating her acquaintance, he was hoping to learn the inner working of the Modern Sorcery Company Ltd.
It was by no means a prepossessing one, and the expression was not improved by a black handkerchief being tied over one eye, and hiding part of the nose and cheek.
Bating the parents," continued Daly, "I never saw a more prepossessing family.
We represent him to ourselves as of dignified and prepossessing exterior.
These girls were very prepossessing in their simple, home-made but tasteful dresses with white and green ribbons.
His appearance was not prepossessing nor--though he was a large man and somewhat florid as to his countenance--particularly striking, except for a general air of untidiness.
This young man is called Prince George; he is about five-and-twenty, and not of a prepossessing appearance.
The registered women who reside in private, or in first-class brothels, have some prepossessing members of their ranks, while the St. Paul suburb has few but of the roughest kind.
The elder betrays secondary syphilis in her voice; the younger has such noble features, is of such beauty, and is altogether of such prepossessing appearance, that the infamy of her conduct is incredible.
As they neared the two crones, they could not but feel that there was nothing either prepossessing or agreeable in the appearance of the latter.
His figure was slender and elegant--his countenance eminently prepossessing and ingenuous.
There was nothing certainly very prepossessing in his exterior appearance; and if he had not previously been eulogised as the most estimable of college servants, I should not have caught the impression from a first glance.
What the son is, the father was in earlier life; and the old beau is not a little gratified to observe the estimation in which his son is held by the fair sex, on account of his attractive person and still more prepossessing manners.
