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Like all blessings, the more sensibly felt from previous interruption, the squire enjoyed this restored popularity with an exhilarated sense of existence; his stout heart beat more vigorously; his stalwart step trod more lightly; his comely English face looked comelier and more English than ever, you would have been a merrier man for a week to have come within hearing of his jovial laugh.
Janet for the time was distraught and said: "I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.
In that brief moment I noticed that Gaston had changed much, as one might expect in those seven years of exile and misery, but not for the worse. On the contrary, I thought him a comelier man than he had ever been before.
"What advantage should gold buttons be to you? Those pearl do attach your gown full evenly as well." "Hylton, thou hast no ambitiousness in thee! "That is, they should pay much respect to the blue velvet and the gold buttons? You should be no different that I can see." "I should be a vast sight comelier, man alive!" "You!" returned Hylton. "Where's the good of talking to thee?
Has not my husband, and have not my seven winsome sons, than whom there were not in Northumberland seven comelier lads not to say brothers oh, have not they, in one day, been snatched away, and swallowed up from me, as a jewel that is flung into the deep sea!
Mucklewrath, who had begun to recover from her hysterics, whimpered forth, 'She wadna say naething against what the minister proposed; he was e'en ower gude for his trade, and she hoped to see him wi' a dainty decent bishop's gown on his back; a comelier sight than your Geneva cloaks and bands, I wis.
I think him altogether trying and odious, and I should be glad yes, glad, if Vick were to bite a piece out of his leg; but, at the same time, I cannot deny that I have seldom seen any thing comelier than the young man who now stands before me, with the green woodland lights flickering about the close-shorn beauty of his face he is well aware that his are not features that need planting out while a lively emotion quickens all his lazy being.
I told him thy name, after showing him the water-bottle, and forthwith he knew thine ailment and prescribed a remedy. Then he bade his son make thee up this medicine; and there is not in Damascus a comelier or a seemlier youth than this lad of his, nor hath anyone a shop the like of his shop."
Go back to your work, dear, for another year; think of Nan in the light of this new hope: compare her with comelier, gayer girls; and by absence prove the truth of your belief. Then, if distance only makes her dearer, if time only strengthens your affection, and no doubt of your own worthiness disturbs you, come back and offer her what any woman should be glad to take, my boy's true heart."
And the Domestic's place on the fore-deck and in the fore-cabin was by no means an unpleasant one; for there he was sure to meet good store of comely Fraus, and Jungfraus comelier still, with their clean white caps, Linsey-woolsey petticoats, wooden shoes, and little gold crosses about their necks.
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