comely
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The Celtic crosses seem to be everywhere as our Uber takes us from Edinburgh Airport to our Airbnb in the Comely Bank part of town.
From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2017
Saddest Cry for Attention: Comely nurse Jamie, who was kicked off for the show for what amounted to overwhelming awkwardness and poor kissing etiquette, threw her hat back into the ring with Ben.
From Time • Mar. 6, 2012
He previously admitted delaying 1,628 packets between 12 June and 23 July 2009 at Edinburgh North West Delivery Office, Comely Bank, Edinburgh.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2010
Comely, black-haired Martha Minnen kept no peacocks, but she had other eccentricities.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thousand diff'rent Shapes it bears, Comely in thousand Shapes appears; Yonder we saw it plain, and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not how.
From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.
Vocabulary lists containing comely
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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