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"True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake " And he negatived the remainder of the definition forthwith. Clare had just returned from the stable-yard, and, confronting the man on the threshold, heard the words, and saw the shrinking of Tess.
"I'll cut off his head!" "O Pasha," she said, "what a hurry you are in to slay this comely youth. He is your prey; he cannot escape you. The youth is not only in the box, but it is locked, and the key is in my pocket. Here it is." The lady walked over to the Pasha, stretched out her hand and gave him the key. As he took it, she said: "Philopena!" "Bah!" said the Pasha, in disgust.
It would be a visit to remember, should some of its rare advantages be dispersed in these our own youthful regions!" "And can it be said that our mental wants have been forgotten that the nakedness of the mind hath been suffered to go without its comely vestment, neighbor Dudley?
With him, looking awkward and shy, came two workmen, with grimy hands, and wearing short jackets over their dirty red shirts. One of them was very tall and gaunt, whose clean-shaven, sallow face bore the mark of years of semi- starvation, perpetual care and suppressed hatred. The other had the appearance of an athlete, being broad-shouldered and comely, with curly hair.
"Indeed, friend," quoth Jonathan, with more vivacity than he usually exhibited, with a lenity to which he had heretofore in his lifetime been a stranger being warmed into such a spirit, doubtless, by the generous wines of which he had partaken "indeed, friend, if I could but see thy face it would doubtless make my decision in such a matter the more favorable, since I am inclined to think from the little I can behold of it, that thy appearance must be extremely comely to the eye."
In due course she has a daughter, legally also a slave and nominally a Greek, yet half Roman. When she is grown, if she happens to be comely and the property of a master like most masters, she has a daughter, a slave and spoken of as a Greek, yet only a quarter Greek. If she has a similar daughter, that daughter, a slave and called a Greek, is only one-eighth Greek.
No words be strong enough to tell the J-O-Y j'y, mam, as fills us one an' all." Here, he waved his hand to where stood the comely Prudence with the two rosy-cheeked maids peeping over her buxom shoulders. "Only," pursued Adam, "I be glad ah! mortal glad, I be, as 'tis you, Mr. Belloo sir.
As the lad shouted through the door, Richard recognized his late conductor. "You can't get in, Daddy; the lock's gone queer. Come around to the back. I'll see to him, Mary," the boy called to the maid, who, nodding, disappeared. At this moment the door opposite Richard opened again, and the mother of the household came out, her comely waist closely clasped by the arm of the young girl.
Mrs Bray's husband also dropped in, and to my surprise proved not the hen-pecked nonentity one would expect after hearing his wife's aggressive diatribes, but a stalwart man of six feet, with a comely face bespeaking solid determination in every line.
The young people are far more fairly formed than I expected them to be famine photographs probably account for this; they are black but comely, though possibly closer inspection would dissolve the charm here are people, men and women, stacking corn or hay round a homestead, a scene I have not heard described or read of in home letters or books about India; how the pictures unfold themselves all hot and new to me, and coloured, and at fifty to sixty miles an hour!
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