How To Use Comely In A Sentence
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I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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At the beginning of the film, her Toula is genuinely uncomely.
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“Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Hypocrisy and a spirit of error will so besmut God's ordinances, that he shall take no pleasure in them: but sincerity, and honesty in duties, will make even those circumstances that in themselves are indifferent, at least comely in the sight of men.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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I just loved the line ‘not uncomely face’, and as for the denial - well, let me say that Kei is not immune to that, either.
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Well, Anselmo was at least a conscientious scholar in his time, and Rafael, if tradition be worth aught, was a comely youth.
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It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that Robert Gordon's warnings were neither impertinent nor untimeous.
Samuel Rutherford
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You might remember Amanda, the comely cutpurse who periodically dropped by to complicate Duncan MacLeod's life.
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I managed to resist the allure of comely females for the rest of the day; but unfortunately, at night time, I relapsed again.
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Their next stop was a witch's kitchen, where Faust caught sight of the image of a comely woman in a mirror.
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I am black but comely, she mouths to the night and the rain.
AMERICAN GODS
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A newspaper holds a 700 mile horse race, and the usual suspects apply: the comely lady of the night, the young upstart, the grizzled veteran and, err, the animal advocate?
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As Warwick passed the door that led from the garden, he brushed by a young man, the baudekin stripes of whose vest announced his relationship to the king, and who, though far less majestic than Edward, possessed sufficient of family likeness to pass for a very handsome and comely person; but his countenance wanted the open and fearless expression which gave that of the king so masculine and heroic a character.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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And when they had taken it out, the body was so firm that it bent not on either side, and the flesh so firm and comely, that is seemed as if he were yet alive.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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In the effeminate Antinous, an alto-relievo of whitest marble, we admire the prototype of that arrow-stricken youth, the comely St Sebastian.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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As comely and as able-bodied as a young pantheress, she was (one judged) little less dangerous -- as vital, as self-centred, as deadly.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza
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In its cast of comely lasses are the prototypical visions found within the boundary of the male fantasy.
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And when he showed himself to the Princess, she found him as comely a youth as she had ever seen.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it.
My Tropic Isle
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The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase
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Judge in yourselves : is comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
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When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested.
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He makes it according to the beauty of a man, in comely proportion, with those limbs and lineaments that are the beauty of a man, but are altogether unfit to represent the beauty of the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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I recall a comely plant, for instance, seven feet high at the end of June, though now slumbering underground, in the Chemin de Saint Jacques -- there, where the steps begin ----
Alone
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My nursemaid Nysa used to say I was comely child, but I never thought so.
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The title of the opera comes about because the comely and charming Nastasya is considered to be an enchantress, to have magic powers to enchant men.
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A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
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In the shares-for-loans feast, they paid $170.1m for a controlling share in NN, producer of half the world's platinoid metals, a fifth of its nickel, and a comely share of its gold and copper.
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Holly steals the first act, quickly doffing her wedding dress into a comely miniskirt.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West
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For if many women loved Diarmuid, there were many he himself gave his love to; and if he was often called Diarmuid the brave, or the hardy, or the comely, or the Hawk of Ess Ruadh, it is often he was called as well the friend and the coaxer of women, Diarmuid-na-man.
Gods and Fighting Men
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She held a responsible job in community economic development, and she was bright, charming and comely.
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The comely waitress standing by the door asked my friend if he would like his bidon filled.
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I am black but comely, she mouths to the night and the rain.
AMERICAN GODS
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On January 21st, 1580, the House adopted a resolution stating that Members "should depart and go forth in comely and civil sort for the reverence of the House; in turning about with a low courtesy like as they do make at their coming into the House; and not so unseemingly and rudely to thrust and thrung out as of late time hath been disorderly used.
Summoned to the Bar
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Only a compound can be beautiful, never anything devoid of parts; and only a whole; the several parts will have beauty, not in themselves, but only as working together to give a comely total.
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The Major smiled as he saw the boy dandifying himself in the glass: the old gentleman was not displeased with the appearance of the comely lad.
The History of Pendennis
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There lived then in Houndsditch one Alexander Hart, who had been a soldier formerly, a comely old man, of good aspect; he professed questionary astrology, and a little of physick; his greatest skill was to elect young gentlemen fit times to play at dice, that they might win or get money.
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times
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Though I have no true beauty, I am not uncomely, arrogant as it sounds, and I would have been so entirely flustered I would have embarrassed both myself and the young gentlemen.
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The mother notes Raskolnikov's stubborn nature, mentioning the story of Raskolnikov's insistence on marrying his landlady's uncomely and lame daughter, despite her objections.
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Now that's what I calls a comely lad!" continued Nabbem, pointing to the latter horseman; "none of your thin-faced, dark, strapping fellows like that
Paul Clifford — Volume 06
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It stands higher than a tall man, generally taking the shape of a comely woman, though its form is fluid.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The greater part of his attention was, of course, still engrossed by his divine inimitable Discretion, as he chose to term Mary Avenel; but, nevertheless there were interjectional flourishes to the Maid of the Mill, under the title of Comely Damsel, and to the Dame, under that of Worthy
The Monastery
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The trio treats their jittery dance-punk like a mad science experiment, haphazardly fusing club-ready basslines with uncomely electronic raucousness.
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Red lips are comely, and a sign of health, as the paleness of the lips is a sign of faintness and weakness; her lips were the colour of scarlet, but thin lips, like a thread of scarlet.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Just so, she thought, I cleanse my heart of suspicion's uncomely stain!
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Lituania, and are farre more ciuill than the rest of the Tartars, of a comely person, and of a stately behauiour, as applying themselues to the fashion of the Polonian.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The comely heroine is in the Cotton city for the first time.
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Their conversation was interrupted when their stagecoach stopped at a small way station and a comely woman with light-brown hair dressed in unattractive dark clothing joined the stage.
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His wife comely as a girl, hair down and beribboned, partlet lost—as if out maying.
Tempted by Your Touch
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Here is the comely girl, unwed and great with child, who came to me in tears last month - a young cook in our traveling party is the father.
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Her 'light-coloured' hair was not so light as to be uncomely, and fell in luxuriant ringlets all round the sides of her pretty head; and the head moved about enough to shake the ringlets, till they threatened to form a mazy net to catch men's eyes.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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Rich chaplets (1) these were, that the winds might not dishevel their comely hair, and this is true i 'faith.
The Nibelungenlied
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Which football nation is represented by the most comely lady?
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The law was aimed at deterring unscrupulous boardinghouse touts who jumped aboard arriving ships to ply gullible sailors with cheap liquor and comely prostitutes.
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There are some give providers and autarkical business advisors who module study the housing of borrowers right and thusly propose comely unsafe loans.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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For many centuries, goats have actually been polymorphed into comely virgins.
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She knew that no man of Royal blood could ever want her uncomely daughter as his wife and she knew that Rachel hadn't the personality to attract a man simply for her thoughts.
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calendered" (_calendé_) and has become quite stiff and dry, it is folded about the head of the purchaser after the comely
Two Years in the French West Indies
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For hee surpassed all other in good condicions, valiaunce, goodnes, and beautie of personage, being about sixe yeares elder then Gianetta: who seyng the mayden, to be both fayre and comelye, became so farre in loue with her, as he estemed her aboue all thinges of the worlde.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Heyford, tell thy comely wife that I and Hastings will sup with her to-morrow, for her hippocras is a rare dainty.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
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Apparently comely Irish maidens are a thing of the past, and women have arrived showing more flesh than fabric.
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When I returned to town, I was a good deal intoxicated, ranged the streets, and having met with a comely, fresh-looking girl, madly ventured to lie with her on the north brae of the castle hill.
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How are you, Mrs. Tod?" as a comely, middle-aged body appeared at the right hand doorway, dressed sprucely in one of those things Jael called a "coat and jacket," likewise a red calamanco petticoat tucked up at the pocket-holes.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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In short, he might pass for what is commonly called a comely black man, with an air of distinction natural to his birth and condition.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
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His physique had been what no word interprets so fitly as the Scotch word "braw," -- not huge and unwieldy in size and strength, but manly and comely.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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Now the fragments of the treasure map are tattooed on the supple bodies of several comely maidens, and it's a race to be the first to undress them.
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The grotesque and uncomely horns that had jutted from the sides were now gone; golden swirls and designs replaced them on the new frame of the mirror.
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Aren't Sicilian scoundrels wooing comely American lasses behind every corner?
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Such an uncomely house for a family as prominent as ours, I'll have you know.
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And to all souldiers it is very noysome and a daungerous disauantage in the warres or in any particular combat, which being the most comely profession of euery noble young Gentleman, it ought to perswade them greatly from wearing long haire.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Whilst the lady yet wondered upon him, the tercel became a young and comely knight before her eyes.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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He wasn't sure whether to be thankful or outraged, but upon glimpsing the stranger's not uncomely face, Arron settled upon merely peeved.
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Mayhap, moreover, his comely face had something to do with it, for, i 'fecks, ne'er saw I a goodlier countenance on Roundhead or Cavalier.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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This epitaph was written in elegant Latin, but for the convenience of all it was necessary to translate it, although the word comely is feeble beside that of formosa, which signifies beautiful in shape.
Droll Stories — Volume 2
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He remembers how he liked her mostly because she was an invalid and quite uncomely.
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Two adobo-rubbed lamb chops arrive grilled exactly as ordered, carnivorously comely in their spicy West African peanut sauce and marvelously garnished with a savory minced lamb pie.
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Sarah Lipstate, the Brooklyn-based mastermind of the one-woman band Noveller, is an experimental guitarist whose investigations of her instrument prove unusually comely and warm.
Indie-Rockers Converge for a Spring Thaw
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Ruggiero having this benefite of the Maides kinde love to him, made it an hopefull mounting Ladder, whereby to derive some good liking from the Mistresse, presuming rather on his outward comely parts, then any other honest qualitie that might commend him.
The Decameron
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; and he answered, “O my lord, the owner of this mule is a comely young man of pleasant manners, withal grave and dignified, and doubtless one of the sons of the merchants.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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With that proclamation, he rushed back up the steps followed by the lead knight, leaving the knights to look worried and confused in front of a group of comely women.
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It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
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It was a curious face, comely and yet feline, with a subtle suggestion of cruelty about the straight, strong little mouth and chubby jaw.
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Upon his arrival, he meets a comely woman who is in charge of renovating the church.
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But…if the beltway characters, pundits, talking heads and so called journalists continue their insidious brand of hypocritical and un-comely rectitudinous invective toward la Hil, I shall be inclined to support her, in her, albeit seemingly opportunistic quest, for the Democratic nomination for president.
Firedoglake » Clinton Rules
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It stands higher than a tall man, generally taking the shape of a comely woman, though its form is fluid.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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She is a consummate singer and incomparable actress, but also a first-rate comic and a comely presence.
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And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then
The Advancement of Learning
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a comely face
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Anyone would have called her comely, and there were, indeed, no women in Stukely's barn to compare with her in that respect, a fact that she recognized.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands
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A bottle of Australian Shiraz was a comely accompaniment.
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As for spider cannibalism, this happens frequently, and usually under different circumstances: Males hot and bothered by comely females will venture forth for the chance to mate.
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Standing within earshot of a lute will cause some people to regress to the level of a medieval simpleton who uses the word "mayhap" in sentences, refers to women as "comely wenches" and pretends not to understand what a radio (or "sorcerous talking box") is.
Word Magazine - Comments
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I was glad to observe that she wore her own hair, plaited in thick braids against the back of her head, instead of the uncomely thing they call a waterfall, which is about as much like
The Innocents Abroad
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We think comely incentives should be reserved for those big and serious investors say, in mining, agriculture, tourism and manufacturing.
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KJV Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
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The building, with the comely address of 11 Spring Street, has inspired conspiracy theories, fear, loathing and - in the pages of the New York Times - utter perplexity.
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Yes, there was to be a new Hedonism that was to re-create life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely Puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival.
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Had we become " comely maidens and athletic youths at the crossroads"?
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Dusty car and ringing rail wore no Circean graces, when the long-haired mermaid, decked in robes of comely green, looked out from her bower beneath the waves, and beckoned me to come.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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Why would Bridget not consent to such a suitable arrangement, with a comely, clever, supremely eligible young man; not consent, moreover, when she was carrying his child?
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The only women in the household were an old black cook, and the housekeeper, known as "Viney" -- a Negro corruption of Lavinia -- a tall, comely young light mulattress, with a dash of Cherokee blood, which gave her straighter, blacker and more glossy hair than most women of mixed race have, and perhaps a somewhat different temperamental endowment.
The Colonel's Dream
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The middle days of our journey bring us two historical highlights as well as a demanding set of eight manually-operated locks on the way to and from the comely village of Stoke Bruerne in South Northamptonshire.
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After being skyjacked (along with comely Dale Arden) to the planet Mongo, Flash (Sam Jones) learns that its merciless ruler, Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow), plans to destroy Earth and take Dale as his concubine.
31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Morning
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And when he showed himself to the Princess, she found him as comely a youth as she had ever seen.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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It was an unwritten law that Bridget, for she was most comely, was always the apple of every unmarried man's eye.
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Although it could expose vast numbers to his performance, it could also lead to undesired editing, uncomely shots or the exposure of the actual magical methods employed.
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comely behavior
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Now the tray-maker was fair of face and comely of form, and the wife of the master of the house saw him and fell in love with him and her heart inclined to him with exceeding inclination; so, her husband being absent, she called her handmaid and said to her, “Contrive to bring yonder man to us.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Shall we not at long last spare this good and comely woman from further degradation?
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The founding fathers of our state might have been interested to know that some of the earliest close-up portraits of their citizens - taken between 1892 and 1911-were of comely maidens reclining nude in various poses.
