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They are often very fine-looking and well-appearing men, and possessed of good natural abilities; but, from laziness or crime, or some other cause, adopt the meanest possible business a man can stoop to.

From The Witches of New York by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

For you are very well-appearing, I assure you; and if you had been surrounded with all the disadvantages of the d'Anville, who knows but that you might have become as famous a Beauty as she?

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

He's a faery youth who comes on May Eve in the guise of some well-appearing young man and beguiles a maid back with him into faeryland.

From The Primrose Ring by Sawyer, Ruth

The lama, a well-appearing, elderly man, seemed completely fitted out with wife and children and yurts and herds.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball

Little did the good old viscount think, when he married his darling, his only daughter, to so well-appearing a gentleman, and to her own liking too, that she would have been so much kept down.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel