How To Use Handsomely In A Sentence
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Window mullions were rebuilt, and birch plywood casework that handsomely echoes the 1950s was installed.
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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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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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Quantities feed two handsomely but will stretch to three, even four, unless you have humungous appetites.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Research requires an inquisitive and independent bent, and rewards these talents handsomely.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.
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The carouse was a tremendous one, as usually was the case where Hollock was the Amphitryon, and, as the potations grew deeper, an intention became evident on the part of some of the company to behave unhandsomely to Norris.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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Yellow Oxeye, grows freely, though locally, in English cornfields, its brilliant yellow flowers contrasting handsomely with adjacent
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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You will be handsomely rewarded for your loyalty.
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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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Sales of refreshments will attract customers to your bazaar and probably contribute handsomely to your fund-raising efforts.
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He warms to his theme, running a handsomely manicured hand over his handsome face.
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I've since spent time admiring the rifle's handsomely figured walnut stock and rollover cheekpiece.
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Yet even if they were, what is to be said of that other not uncommon incident of legislative history, the legislative "strike," whereby corporations not protected by irrepealable charters are blandly confronted with the alternative of having their franchises mutilated or of paying handsomely for their immunity?
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
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An Arab does not care what he spends in adorning his niches; let a handsomely painted plate or a tasteful vase or a delicately cut glass cost what it may, if it looks well he buys it.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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Spoken dialogue -- Kryptonite for even the starriest of singers -- was treated with wince-inducing amateurishness except by Guetti, the lone singer here able to deliver non-sung text in a credible way, and baritone Charlie Hyland (the evening's appealing, handsomely sung Papageno), who made a brave stab at the comedy.
In performance: Magic Flute (Summer Music Festival 2010)
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An almost candified fruit compote overwhelms a handsomely prepared pork loin, but keen balancing of a pale, licorice-scented fennel crust against an earthy port glaze complements roast salmon.
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We anticipated a rusty scow; he commissioned a very handsomely appointed, eminently seaworthy vessel.
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The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.
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No common correspondence could possibly have had the number of attractively boxed gifts, the amount of handsomely printed literary and il-lustrated matter, and certainly not the unfailing persistency of flow, that constituted the correspondence of Mr. Simcox.
This Freedom
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Dundee should have gone on to win handsomely, but for two truly dreadful misses.
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That did not sit well with Jackson, who has had to use the patience and deft touch of a bomb squadder to get his gifted stars to coexist so handsomely.
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They were handsomely backed in the convolutions of the plot by the rest of the cast, all of whom escaped the guillotine which loomed behind.
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Rational Review
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Other Levantines followed his example; but, to fix the fickle Parisian, required a coffeeroom handsomely decorated.
Paris as It Was and as It Is
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He was stocky and dressed handsomely in his breeches and blouse.
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It was whispered that these people were paid handsomely for crimes that could not be traced.
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Hayden had won in his dice-throwing and Fate took defeat handsomely, granting him his desires and throwing a favor or two for lagnappe.
The Silver Butterfly
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That move has paid off handsomely this year and Liverpool have proved to be the team to beat in the Cups.
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The dressmaker was a buxom person, handsomely dressed and rather good – looking, but much older than the gentleman in the Turkish trousers, whom she had wedded some six months before.
Nicholas Nickleby
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The car ran perfectly to the finish, and we won handsomely.
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For a few minutes no one came forward, but at last a pair of sleek mules, handsomely caparisoned, with a richly adorned palankeen slung between them, the identical equipage of the maharanee which had been harboured in my home, emerged from the crowd, and advanced at a grave pace toward the royal dais.
Tales of Destiny
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Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
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Many young, bright and keen barristers would deeply resent the suggestion that they were incapable of doing the work for which their elders and betters are being so handsomely paid.
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'And likewise to make the hold predy is to bestow everything handsomely there and to remove anything that may be troublesome.'
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
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Remember if you do something world changing, you are likely to get handsomely recompensed for it.
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I think I deserve to be rewarded handsomely, and the weather forecast suggests that the omens are good.
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Beaters gain regular employment to flush the birds towards the waiting guns, who as well as paying handsomely for their sport, patronise local hotels, restaurants and shops.
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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 they mean a contriving of directions and precepts for readiness of practice, which I discommend not, so it be not occasion that some quantity of the science be lost; for else it will be such a piece of husbandry as to put away a manor lying somewhat scattered, to buy in a close that lieth handsomely about a dwelling.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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He had handsomely chiseled facial features, lustrous blond hair that hung that was brushed to both sides of his forehead and hung over his ears and down his neck; the Heraldic style.
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He said if his results were good, he would reward him handsomely.
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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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When company came to Castlewood, he entertained them handsomely, and was of a very pleasant, sarcastical turn.
The Virginians
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We pay handsomely for the privilege of being members and we get hot under the collar about its burdensome regulations.
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He had handsomely chiseled facial features, lustrous blond hair that hung that was brushed to both sides of his forehead and hung over his ears and down his neck; the Heraldic style.
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I often play monkeys at scabble and win handsomely ... so its all old nuts to me
Braveheart Broon Mocks English
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The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.
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There is no denying that with certain great gains, the American Puritans became, in a worldly sense, provincialized, and that if they lived in the spirit, they lived in it narrowly, while the others, who lived in the body, lived in it liberally, or at any rate handsomely.
Seven English Cities
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But Scion, which launches in California in June with two new subcompacts directed at the sizable Generation Y, is a long-term investment that Farley is sure will pay off handsomely.
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If there is a better job than travelling the globe at someone else's expense and being paid handsomely for it, then it is beyond our ken.
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The two interlocutors in this dialogue were sitting in a low oak-panelled room in Plymouth town, handsomely enough furnished, adorned with carving and gilding and coats of arms, and noteworthy for many strange knickknacks, Spanish gold and silver vessels on the sideboard; strange birds and skins, and charts and rough drawings of coast which hung about the room; while over the fireplace, above the portrait of old Captain Will Hawkins, pet of
Westward Ho!
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Throughout the 1990s workers' pay remained largely stagnant while company executives profited handsomely.
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After a nail-biting ballot, in which Naoto Kan, the prime minister, and Mr Ozawa, his brooding challenger, sat just feet away from each other, eyes shut, meditating intensely, Mr Kan won handsomely.
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This personal touch has paid off handsomely for the bank with profits more than doubling in the past three years to €504m.
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Her son unfilially doubled, and, Eve having chicane -- a tragedy which her partner evidently seemed to consider could have been avoided by the exercise of ordinary common sense -- Peter and his partner, despite Peter's best efforts, won the game handsomely.
Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
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It is a beautiful place, and the Blakistons 'house is situated within a stonecast of the Sea, and is a fine airy, lofty house, handsomely but plainly furnished; and Bessy looked very natural, gliding about as Mistress of it!
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The flowers' white petals contrast handsomely with their lemon-yellow cups.
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Out of work, and desperate for cash, Armstrong receives an offer from his ex-girlfriend, Fatima, that if he impregnates her, she will pay him handsomely.
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It was ‘handsomely built, laid out in mahogany and calamander wood,’ and gained reputation as a place for lovers to hold assignations.
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The scene - indeed the whole theatre - begins as a handsomely wood-panelled room in the King's palace, expensively and comfortably appointed.
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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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A gazetteer published in 1819 described the museum as: neatly arranged and handsomely filled with several thousand articles, such as paintings, waxwork, natural and artificial curiosities.
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the volume was handsomely bound
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Then he smiled for the first time, giving his battered face a handsomely rakish air and shook his head.
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It's silly to expect 'necessariness' from any movie, and there's no crime in handsomely assembling a moving diorama of a fascinating historical event," writes
GreenCine Daily
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Like its namesake it has had a few unlikely wins, but unlike its namesake it pays handsomely.
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Rose and Margaret burst from their retreat with a loud laugh, and gave Obed a hearty greeting; which he, bemazed and ecstacized, returned as handsomely as he knew how.
Margaret
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The entrance fee barely covered costs but the club earned handsomely from drink sales.
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Many young, bright and keen barristers would deeply resent the suggestion that they were incapable of doing the work for which their elders and betters are being so handsomely paid.
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She hears her bright scintillate voice echoing in the handsomely furnished sitting room.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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I can see my old cousin still in what she termed her breakfast room, dressed very handsomely, standing before a bare mahogany table on which a maid placed the considerable array of a silver salver without legs, which was set on a folded cloth and held the sugar-loaf and the sugar-cutter; and another salver with legs that bore various bowls and one beautiful silver sugar-box which was kept filled high for her husband's toddy.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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First, he ate a plate of sandwiches; then he ate a handsomely iced poundcake; then he gobbled a dish of chicken salad, after which he ate a roast pig; after that a quantity of blancmage; then he threw in several glasses of punch to fortify his appetite, and finished his monstrous repast with a roast turkey.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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One turn, to brown the birds on the other side, sans weight, and they emerge - juicy, crisp, and handsomely ridged with grill marks.
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You have been so unhandsomely and uncandidly dealt with by a friend of yours and mine that I should be sorry to find myself in the position of an opponent to you, and more particularly with the chance of making a fool of myself.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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Cadiz, currently in Spain's second division, are also said to be happy with the transfer after they were handsomely rewarded in terms of compensation.
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Frequently, she even “grubstaked miners who had no other means of support while they looked for gold in the mountains and was repaid handsomely for her kindness and generosity by those who struck pay dirt.”
BLACK WOMEN OF THE OLD WEST
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In this way the padrone provided American companies with large numbers of employees for which they were paid handsomely.
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Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
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Published to coincide with Columbus's rather sour quincentenary, The Discovery of America, a handsomely produced album of over two hundred works by Saul Steinberg, made a rather melancholy impression upon this peruser, the causes of which I will try to discover.
What He Didn't Tell the New Kitty
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I noted that Captain Haddock's shirt contained some primrose yellow within its subtle pinstripe pattern; a colour that is very in at the moment, handsomely complemented by his olive green ‘safari’ waistcoat.
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He was handsomely Celtic, unwrinkled in old age, and his lifelong love of the outdoors gave him a permanent tan.
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She hears her bright scintillate voice echoing in the handsomely furnished sitting room.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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He was elected for the borough speedily after his father's demise; a magistrate, a member of parliament, a county magnate and representative of an ancient family, he made it his duty to show himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him.
Vanity Fair
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The book itself is handsomely presented, but surprisingly for a BBC publication, contains quite a few misprints and typos.
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LFF screenings no longer open with a handsomely mounted short film, nor does an actorly voice belonging to Michael Caine or Chiwetel Ejiofor tell us we're watching the best films from around the world, here, in London.
Trailer Trash
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Khodorkovsky stands to profit handsomely from any sale.
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The master had forged - and sold handsomely - holograph letters from Aeschylus to Pythagoras and Alexander to Aristotle, among many others.
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Anyone returning the necklace will be handsomely rewarded.
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India has responded handsomely by providing 3,000 men
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Acid phosphate and kainite added to the manure may pay handsomely.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
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Yet I know handsomely and featly how to compose and settle them all.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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She came along handsomely, with foam to the hawsepipe, thanks to the freshening breeze, and her main royal and topgallantsail clewing up as she approached, for our signal had been seen; then drove close alongside with her topsail aback and in a few minutes we were aboard, shaking hands with Captain Blow, and all others who extended a fist to us, and spinning our yarn in response to the eager questions put.
The Honour of the Flag
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The encounter was handsomely catered, the dialogue was loud and lively, the will toward friendship was earnest and in its way intoxicating, but upon our ebullient guests 'departure Miller looked at me and said sighingly, "Jesus, don't they make you glad you're an American?
On Not Being a Dove
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Tourist industry guidebooks always tell you to tip handsomely.
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Rooms are handsomely but not ostentatiously furnished, and all have king-size beds, fireplaces, and decks that overlook the lake.
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But Catlin - a tall, balding, 67-year-old M.D. with a handsomely craggy face - just frowns when I prod him.
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Rounded off handsomely, like human ears [?] _Mid. _ (_feeling his ears_)
Proserpine and Midas
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On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by.
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Mrs. Banks, a recent bride, was handsomely gowned in pink chiffon over messaline, and wore a unique necklace of nuggets which were gathered from her husband's mine near Iditarod, Alaska.
The Rim of the Desert
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Handsome is he who does handsomely.
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The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.
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The dressmaker was a buxom person, handsomely dressed and rather good-looking, but much older than the gentleman in the Turkish trousers, whom she had wedded some six months before.
Nicholas Nickleby
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The second datto was much younger, and repaired to the officers 'quarters to wait until the old chap had departed, evidently recognizing his own social inferiority, for he boasted half a dozen warriors only, and not a gun or spear among them, though they carried _barongs_ of great beauty, with damascened blades and handles of handsomely carved wood, some of them being inlaid with pearl or ivory.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
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However, their fathers were wonderfully pleased to see their children going daily to the schools in good order, handsomely dressed in gowns edged with purple, and that Sertorius paid for their lessons, examined them often, distributed rewards to the most deserving, and gave them the golden bosses to hang about their necks, which the Romans called bullae.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Cary Grant and Sophia Loren had appeared together in 1957's The Pride and the Passion, a film that was handsomely mounted but generally suffered from miscasting.
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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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Affright not Joel," Martha replied to her brother, "but tell me whether the _kittuna_ of this Rabbi is wool or flax, or his _tallith_ handsomely embroidered.
The Coming of the King
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Cadiz, currently in Spain's second division, are also said to be happy with the transfer after they were handsomely rewarded in terms of compensation.
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They have intimate connections with the corporate world, access to the opinions of hordes of market analysts, and are paid handsomely to manage our savings.
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The smooth-talking, shiny-suited salespeople who sold endowments expected to be paid handsomely for their efforts.
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The steeple of the church, lately rebuilt handsomely, stands some paces from the body; in the latter are three tombs of the old Berkeleys;, with cumbent figures.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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It is handsomely designed in the generous large-format manner of a century ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The five-year-old is in rude health at present, as she showed when scoring handsomely at Ayr on her latest start.
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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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Forster looks as handsomely out-of-place as he ever has, aquiline and arch in a white linen suit.
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A workaholic is a smart “Fool” who is always rewarded handsomely by hard work. Dr T.P.Chia
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And, above all, a sense of congealment, of a handsomely branded stasis.
Will somebody please tell David Beckham that it's time to go away?
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The BofACEO is one of very few who benefited handsomely from the financial crisis and may have had a part in causing the disaster, he don't deserve squat!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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Once, at a co-worker's wedding, he had paid handsomely for a female escort to accompany him as his date.
