- a variation of well-favored.
well-favoured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He was, as she had naturally noticed, a well-favoured man, and the flannels and straw hat he wore were becoming to him.
From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert
Eh me!—and time was I was a comely young maid—as young and well-favoured as you, my dear: eh dear, dear, to think how long it is since!
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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)
I can almost imagine the tender-eyed Leah and the well-favoured Rachel figuring in an idyl of another Wakefield family; but, then, where are we to seek for them?
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
He is indeed a right well-favoured boy," replied Mr. Fairfax, "and one calculated to win his way to a colder heart than that of a maiden near his own age.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)
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