well-favoured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Nasmyth was certainly a well-favoured man, but there were respects in which his companion was not altogether satisfied with him.
From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert
But you are not only well-favoured but well-fortuned; and had you not found yourself worthily bound to your duty I doubt not you might have prospered in the Archbishop's household.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John
The Lord Mayor wore a frilled shirt-front behind the massive chain of office, and between its tufts of whisker his well-favoured face shone like the sun.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.
He was tall and well-favoured, and he moved with a jaunty and yet not ungraceful swing; but it almost seemed to her that this was merely the result of an empty self-sufficiency.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus
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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