How To Use Handsome In A Sentence
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.
The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
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Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
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From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this --
Life on the Mississippi
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I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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He's not handsome - far from it.
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Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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The handsome prince was changed into a frog.
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I think that most of us would rather be called lynx-eyed than gluttonous, and certainly a lynx is a much handsomer beast than a glutton.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
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The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
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James would only wink at him, a secretive smile gracing his handsome features…
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Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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Mary wore handsome go - go boots to the discotheque last night.
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In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.
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They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl.
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He was taller than me, handsome, an athlete of repute.
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On a highboy in the corner of the dining room rests a handsome, black-and-white portrait of Jean, then a stunner in her early 20s, and James, clad in his Army uniform.
Jean Stevens, Wyalusing Widow, Lived With Corpses Of Husband And Twin Sister, Say Police
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This twenty-something Wood-elf is not what you would call devilishly handsome yet is never-the-less attractive in a somewhat boyish way.
Undefined
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from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
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Additionally there will be handsome trophies and holiday packages to Sri Lanka resorts.
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You will notice on your right a handsome house on a large lake.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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“I†™ m gonna go with ‘richer and handsomer than any of use …”
I’m gonna spoil more of your Wolverine movie | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Everyone in the cast was superb, a bevy of attractive young girls and handsome young men who could all sing, dance and act with such enthusiasm.
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The bookcases are handsome things assembled from varnished plywood.
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He looked tall, handsome and healthy.
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Over the door of a handsome brick building dated 1937, beneath a clustered family group whose adult held a caduceus, the lintel bore this inscription.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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Roy Round, whose dance photographs fill this handsome volume, is at his best when he is straightforward, when the subject seems to emerge from luminous, unpunctuated space, and when the challenge of pure movement is palpable.
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Look there, and tell me, without partiality, which is the handsomest of those two that lie asleep, the young man or the young lady. '
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
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But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind.
The Purcell Papers
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To the immediate south was a more handsome Victorian building constructed by architects John Lessels and John Patterson in 1873 to replace an earlier structure.
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Colonel Kenton now saw the unhandsomeness of his leaving his wife at all, and he beheld in its true light his shabbiness in not going back to tell her he had found his old friend and was to bring him to dinner.
A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories
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He was from the same mould as the men she had gazed at worshipfully when a child: rich, handsome, of impeccable social standing.
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Inside were wonderfully carved, handsome pieces like six-legged snooker tables and eight-legged billiard tables.
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That close to the gate, called the House of the Triclinium, derives its name from a large triclinium in the centre of the peristyle, which is spacious and handsome, and bounded by the city walls.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Window mullions were rebuilt, and birch plywood casework that handsomely echoes the 1950s was installed.
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A tall, strong, handsome woman, she looks momentarily lost and vulnerable.
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Plus, Nikolaj, after changing from red cumberbund soloist to handsome nerd, is signing CDs in the gift shop afterwards.
Znaider and Blomstedt, Brahms and Nielsen
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It looked, to be sure, nothing like the milky portraits we had been shown in Sunday school, looked hardly at all like the handsome gentleman with the Aryan profile and the five-hundred-watt glow who effulged at us from calendars in Protestant parlors all over Dixie.
Another Roadside Attraction
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The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here.
Rural Hours
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As I moved to Sweden, I went out and got myself a handsome little phone with a telia account.
"Can I talk to Jerry?"
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Built from whinstone, with a slate roof, the pedimented front door is a particularly handsome feature.
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It seems Reese thinks he's not handsome enough and must correct some sort of minor orthodontic imperfection.
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He gave her a handsome present.
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Librettos were also, however, published as part of a poet's collected works, in well-printed and handsomely bound editions.
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He died in comparative poverty, but was buried in Westminster Abbey, where Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset, paid for his handsome monument.
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She wasn't handsome, but she certainly was pretty, even though her nose was retrousse, which is French for pug.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
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Words such as dreamboat apply to the mellow folk-jazz musician; he's the kind of classically handsome guy about whom women, moms and gay brothers can ...
The Pitch | Complete Issue
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He is popular and handsome so why would he want a fat slob like me?
The Sun
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.
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He looked impossibly handsome in his formal suit.
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The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more.
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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A dapper man with an aristocratic air, he was boyishly handsome, compulsively social and intensely creative.
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Created and written by comedians Ruth Jones and James Corden, the show follows the title couple, played by the winsome Joanna Page and the just-handsome-enough Mathew Horne.
"Gavin & Stacey": Catch BBC America's Latest, Sweetest Sitcom before It Gets the NBC Makeover
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Flynn was still handsome, though dissipated.
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Another of his profitable ventures was a school for slaves; Crassus purchased unskilled bondsmen, had them trained, and then sold them for handsome profits.
Iris Erlingsdottir: Axing Art$ And Humanitie$
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A masty [mastiff] is handsomer to me than the most exact little dog that ever lady played withal.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow.
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She's dreaming she'll be whisked off her feet by a tall, dark handsome stranger.
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He was handsome, with a devilish charm.
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The tall, dark one with the angular face was Thomas; even at Ruth's age, when he'd been only four, Thomas had had a leading man's kind of handsomeness -- a combination of poise and thuggery that, in his teenage years, gave him the seeming confidence of a much older man.
Excerpt: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
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Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness.
The Egoist
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Several handsome rows of houses have been erected and bathing machines established.
The Sun
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It netted us a handsome profit.
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In the exhibition, the piece was perhaps over-represented by smaller bronze versions, a plaster maquette, a giant photo-mural on cloth and a handsome new series of six inkjet prints.
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Well, there was one fine, handsome rabbit who had the longest and plumiest tail of any of the family, and was very proud of it.
How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail Hollow Tree Stories
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I also did the do-si-do with some very handsome and fresh-faced farm boys wearing checked shirts during one of his songs.
Maria Rodale: Concerts Up Close
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Pheasants are handsome birds, especially the cocks, which are larger than the hens.
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She stayed hidden in a curtained room with a handsome, brutish Aussie.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas Some are ornate, others as understatedly handsome as a steamer trunk.
Sometimes It's Not Just a Cigar Box
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Refined and sleek, this handsome agenda cover slips easily into a jacket pocket or briefcase.
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Thursday was Ladies Day and, after a very wet morning, it was a handsome afternoon at the races.
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With that the beggar bowed deeply to the handsome couple and laughed until he was rocking back and forth.
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The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
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England -- are mostly extremely handsome, and generally contrive, however big, to retain, at any rate in their heart, as at Antwerp, or in the Grande Place at Brussels, a striking air of antiquity; whilst some fairly big towns, such as Malines and Bruges, are mediaeval from end to end.
Beautiful Europe: Belgium
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The old school photograph shows a handsome, fresh-faced teenage boy staring awkwardly at the camera.
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This is what we call niche brand building," said the handsome Mr. Lannung, who was dressed in a suit by Buckler, a company that sponsored his evening out.
Social Networks for Models
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'He used to be so handsome.'--'And now?'.
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It was not an unhandsome face, though generally the expression it wore was one of good-humored dissatisfaction with life in general.
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The Strangers House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass; some of a kind of cambric oiled.
The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29
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Quantities feed two handsomely but will stretch to three, even four, unless you have humungous appetites.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
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The elder maid-servant wore a good stuff gown — the younger snooded up her hair, and now went about the house a damsel so trig and neat, that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine; and others, that they saw no business so old
Saint Ronan's Well
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At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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The sheer beauty of the handsome yard revived her.
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Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society.
A Car for the Everyday Man
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a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this --
Life on the Mississippi
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Connection must be a clear division of work, it was reviewed inspection to ensure connectivity of norms, diameter appropriate, accurate, reliable handsome.
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Research requires an inquisitive and independent bent, and rewards these talents handsomely.
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Still, the king kept his fair head high and brazened it out, and Father and I went and stood on either side of him, and all my brothers stood behind us, and no one can deny that we are a handsome family, or at the very least tall, and the thing is done, nobody can now deny it.
The White Queen
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The handsome restaurant offers ample buffet breakfasts and elaborate evening meals.
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Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.
Chapter I
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Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.
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He was so handsome in his dark Sunday suit.
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He was like a child, so cute, so handsome and thin.
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He was a real nerd in high school - I can't believe he's so handsome now.
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Samuel Pepys recorded that on 6 January 1660 he was entertained to dinner ‘which was good, only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome’.
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The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
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If the Liberal Democrats do not make some handsome gains on Thursday, the party is going to have to ask itself whether that opportunity was muffed.
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This is most stunningly displayed in the show's chief highlight, a re - creation of the dining room first exhibited in the 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by Stickley in Syracuse, N.Y. The room incorporates the handsome, massive furniture in a setting where everything from the oak-and-burlap wainscot to the pottery vessels on the table and sideboard was designed or overseen by Stickley himself.
Four-Square Reformer
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I think my husband is the most handsome man in the world, but I realize my judgment is rather subjective.
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They won a handsome victory in the elections.
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I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point.
A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
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"You will meet a tall, dark, handsome stranger this Thursday," says your astrologer.
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He was a real nerd in high school - I can't believe he's so handsome now.
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Gary led Vicky from the handsome Chesapeake & Ohio-Seaboard Air Line depot on Main Street in Richmond to the waiting Cadillac.
LASTING TREASURES
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Alabaster couples loitered along the garden path, handsome, whole and serene.
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A handsome man with a large head and a shock of dark hair, slightly silvered, he was about to surprise his audience.
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Miss Patty Lockit were both what may be called handsomer girls (and if you asked any persons in company their opinion, they would tell you so) yet their eyes were a direct contradiction to their tongues, by being continually fixed on Miss Jenny; for, while she was in the room, it was impossible to fix them anywhere else.
The Governess; or, Little Female Academy
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The mountains were covered with good bunch-grass, (_festuca_;) the water of the streams was cold and pure; their bottoms were handsomely wooded with various kinds of trees; and huge and lofty picturesque precipices where the river cut through the mountain.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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For my part, I did not embark in trade myself, having no capital, but I accepted the offer of a Gentoo merchant to lend him the use of my dustuck to cover his goods, for which he paid me handsomely.
Athelstane Ford
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But now, published as a handsome if austere chapbook, the poem can be understood on its own terms.
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Not the squat, stocky Napoleon we recognise today, but a young, handsome neo-classical hero.
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You're honest, reliable, trustworthy, intelligent, and very handsome as well.
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For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the “interlopers” were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, ” especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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Yes, you are Smokey “Le Beau”, aren't you? even Smokey “Le Bel”, as Philippe IV de France who was called Philippe “Le Bel”, because he was sooooo handsome!
Frimousse - French Word-A-Day
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The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Successful people dare to fail but refuse to be defeated by failure. The keep changing themselves to face new difficulties and obstacles, and in the end win out handsomely. Dr T.P.Chia
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For those anticipating a handsome Christmas bonus, the Mission Mtime integrated home theater system is an elegant starter kit.
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He was very young and handsome in a slightly effeminate way.
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The poor sweepers in India would be stunned by the exalted status of the sanitation workers in America, who make pretty handsome salaries.
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Then he went on a little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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The third was a very handsome, pleasantly featured man flush with radiance.
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The most handsome and timeless of materials is stone such as marble, granite, limestone, or slate.
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At the back of the room sat a handsome young man playing the gusla and singing, apparently the proprietor, and two very pretty young women, all with that characteristically Slav look which comes from the pulling of the flesh down from the flat cheekbones by the tense pursing of the mouth.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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The people, she indicted, were not handsome and had no idea of the charms of friendly society or of social intercourse.
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The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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He was clever, handsome and exceedingly rich.
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From now on, the word diet will merely refer to the enjoyable four or five times a day we eat, and stay whole, strong, and handsome as a result.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET
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I thought about meeting a handsome stranger but it seemed a bit of a long shot.
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Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast.
John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'
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Across the way, several dozen handsome Somali men and woman lolled around the garden in formal suits and dresses.
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If you will but look with that bonnie smile on the handsome chiel, who is to be here the day, you will do his business.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can obtain admission to the Bannatine Club, 13 when I propose to throw off an edition, limited according to the rules of that erudite Society, with a facsimile of the manuscript, emblazonry of the family arms surrounded by their quartering, and a handsome disclamation of family pride, with HAEC NOS NOVIMUS ESSE
Chronicles of the Canongate
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But still he is not quite a — what one calls a handsome man, nor quite
The Old Curiosity Shop
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He looked so handsome and innocent, just standing there with a stupid, goofy grin on his face.
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He wur one o 'yo're handsome fastish chaps, an' he tired o 'me as men o' his stripe allers do tire o 'poor lasses, an'then he ill-treated me.
Surly Tim's Trouble
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Mind you, it is a pity that other Scottish pundits are not as forthright as Walker was last week, many evidently willing to accept handsome pay packets for doing little more than stating the obvious.
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Besides numerous other places of worship, there are a handsome town hall, athenaeum and museum, art gallery and public library, various assembly rooms, and several recreation grounds.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Their result is a handsome parade-place, -- a pretty stone toy, -- an unpickable lock to an inclosure nobody wants to enter, -- a navy-yard for the creation of an armament which has no commerce to protect.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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He was a real nerd in high school - I can't believe he's so handsome now.
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Looking up, Ashton noticed that the boy was handsome, something the phone didn't quite pick up well, for fuzz had been distorting the screen.
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It's looking very handsome out back, all sweeping lawns backed by a soft mixed hedge perhaps ten feet high, composed of a good blend of native trees and bushes.
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Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales.
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Not quite six feet tall, he had probably been handsome until something ugly inside reached maximum levels and seeped out, eroding him until only an expression of scorn remained.
Arcane Circle
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I watched the two handsome flags uncurl to the warm wind, then went on my own tour of inspection.
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Tall, dark, sleeked back hair, handsomely dressed in a double-breasted suit, he extended his hand.
Patrizia Chen: My First Tango
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The most that I felt was sadness. because as we watched him turn from a handsome black man into a freaky white woman it occurred to me that he was trying to completely irradicate the person that he had been.
Goodbye Captain Eo
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Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness.
Half a Rogue
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A handsome priest in a cream linen suit was moving among the men, distributing Communion wafers from a wooden chalice.
DESPERADOES
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We see him tall, trim, handsome, usually in a navy double-breasted blazer with brass buttons, the silver hair shining, a man with a senatorial look, if not presidential.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures of its handsome hero, Mike Mather.
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The handsome bay had a lot of brilliance, but a times lost his focus, including skipping into the canter in his first medium trot.
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Wulfgar must have rewarded her handsomely for her favor, for of a surety that baseborn knight had no social graces.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical finger a pretty handsome golden ring, whereinto was right artificially enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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STUNNINGLY successful and devilishly handsome, Jose Mourinho is the manager with the Midas touch.
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In the morning and evening, the cock struts gallantly around his beat, his handsome forked tail outspread.
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Anywho, I was at a table with notable personalities, including the rather handsome and Hot Men of Children's Literature-insipient Jason Weber HI, JASON!
Archive 2006-06-01
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Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart.
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Another handsome species which is fairly common is the solidago rigida, or hard-leaved golden-rod, whose leaves are thick, rough and fairly broad, the lower ones sometimes a foot long, and whose flower clusters form a broad flat top.
Some Summer Days in Iowa
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Array of contributors includes players, commentators and groupies, with handsome illustrations.
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Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent
Letter 66
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He does not sound at all handsome, and he is fearfully old.
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Notable mountain forest birds are the Rwenzori turaco, Musophaga johnstoni and the handsome francolin, Francolinus nobilis; also the forest ground thrush Turdus oberlaenderi and the shoebill Balaeniceps rex.
Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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The house was so handsome, with a lovely countrified garden.
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A New Edition, revised, handsomely printed in fcap. 8vo., with Vignettes and red floriated borders taken from the ancient MSS.
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years.
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It is an elegant example of what the French call a casque bourgignon, a Burgundian helmet of distinctive design that was the choice of kings and noblemen -- a handsome, high-crowned helmet with a comb and helm forged from a single piece of metal.
'Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America'
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There were available: the handsome tabby; a long-haired black-and-white cat; a white cat with grey patches.
ON CATS
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Lotta naked in the elegant bathroom, laughing beneath the shower, beckoning her handsome blond lover to join her.
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But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.
The Water Babies
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John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.
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a handsome mahogany desk.
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Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face? a beautiful body?
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You will notice on your right a handsome house on a large lake.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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Pictures of the Rosetti family were grouped in pairs or threes on the walls and there was one large picture of a handsome man in an army uniform on the mantel piece.
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A rich strong expressive affection in short pounced upon her in the shape of a handsomer, ampler, older Mrs. Beale.
What Maisie Knew
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“I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George,” he would say, in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of man, and his faults, and shortcomings; and wonder why Heaven had not made us all brave and tall, and handsome and rich?
The Virginians
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Actually, he reflected, Hannah Zachal was a handsome woman, despite her prickly personality.
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The cross can be seen throughout the Christian world, from elaborate, gem-encrusted gold altar ornaments to simple wayside calvaries, in handsome stone marketplace crosses, and in the basic floor plan of Christian churches.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
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The restoration of the handsome houses surrounding the square in the years since Samuel's dire prognostication is a heartening instance of a glorious architectural and sociological renaissance.
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In the afternoone we went to see the towne of Parenzo, it is a pretie handsome towne, vnder the Venetians.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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All I could think about was my handsome brother dressed as a Mohawk swinging from the mast of the ship and landing on deck like a swashbuckling pirate!
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First came the handsome Prince Charming from Carolina.
"This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen."
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She tried to imagine how Giovanni would look now, but all she could see was Marco across the table, his handsome face impassive, his expression inscrutable.
That’s Amore
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The centre is in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of this handsome old city.
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And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress.
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The pourpoint worn by young Otto of Godesberg was of blue, handsomely decorated with buttons of carved and embossed gold; his haut-de-chausses, or leggings, were of the stuff of Nanquin, then brought by the Lombard argosies at an immense price from China.
A Legend of the Rhine
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Right: A handsome array in calf, morocco and vellum.
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With blond hair swept high off his forehead, Delbert was the handsome rebel-without-a-cause.
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Into his strong young fingers Ulka took a smooth, flat stone; his handsome eyes were lowered in boyish modesty, his thoughts were worshipping her.
Legends of Vancouver
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That both sides have offered their respective industries handsome sums in state funding cannot be disputed.
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He was handsome too, if you liked the tall, lean, half-starved look.
YELLOW BIRD
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I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Belinda
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When the handsome Hollywood actress Brooke Shields, left, starred as Roxie Hart in the West End musical Chicago over the summer, she picked out a bijou house in Marylebone as her home.
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Handsome, she thought, but not a patch on Alex.
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Ade is handsome and smart , not to mention being a good athlete.
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Growing up he was tall and good looking and could be described as the most handsome man in the parish.
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Supposedly very handsome, and not stupid, either.