Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.
1 She should be modestly well - favoured , as becomes her childish stage of development.
2 One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well - favoured .
3 He was reckoned well - favoured , but I cannot say that I found him so.
4 Nor was it to be wondered at, for they were a well - favoured pair.
5 His mother a well - favoured old little woman, and a good woman, I believe.
6 He is as well - favoured and tall of his hands as e'er a one.
7 By our lady, not to mention Saint Pancras, a well - favoured stripling.
8 He was tall and fair, well - favoured , preoccupied, not to say morose.
9 Caspar is well - favoured , she will not refuse him; we will give her the choice.
10 Outside, the young, well - favoured man listened with impatience to the chink of the teacups.
11 He had a well - favoured countenance; fair, good-humoured, but very sly.
12 The speaker appeared, a hard well - favoured woman of twenty-eight.
13 But they be not like mortal men, being no wise so well - favoured as the master.
14 And Caius Nepos wants some well - favoured girls to wait on his guests at supper to-morrow.
15 By the rood, a well - favoured youth, and a strong.
16 There is a well - favoured youth without, whom the earl pointed out as your father's apprentice.
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