well-favoured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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We were both well-favoured by Nature—perhaps I may be allowed to speak thus of myself when life is closing in—and fortune seemed to have been equally considerate.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
All were very gay, and now and then fought desperately for a well-favoured vine.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Formerly the very stones of the court had breathed of life, and sunshine, and youth; formerly that poor dog had been bright and well-favoured, and as happy as are all things that are loved.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
Hawke loomed larger on his own horizon, the more particularly because the analyst was a young woman and well-favoured.
From A Romance of Wastdale by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Ingleby was a well-favoured man, and physical effort and endurance with a wholesome singleness of purpose had set a stamp on him that almost amounted to distinction.
From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold
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