better-favored

Updated: June 9, 2025

"You might not startle a wolf, or turn the Royal Americans from a charge; but I have seen the time when you had a better-favored look; your streaked countenances are not ill-judged of by the squaws, but young women of white blood give the preference to their own color.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757