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On January 21st, 1580, the House adopted a resolution stating that Members "should depart and go forth in comely and civil sort for the reverence of the House; in turning about with a low courtesy like as they do make at their coming into the House; and not so unseemingly and rudely to thrust and thrung out as of late time hath been disorderly used."

Summoned to the Bar 1955

This epitaph was written in elegant Latin, but for the convenience of all it was necessary to translate it, although the word comely is feeble beside that of formosa, which signifies beautiful in shape.

Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

This epitaph was written in elegant Latin, but for the convenience of all it was necessary to translate it, although the word comely is feeble beside that of formosa, which signifies beautiful in shape.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

In short, he might pass for what is commonly called a comely black man, with an air of distinction natural to his birth and condition.

Memoirs of Fanny Hill. 1749

In short, he might pass for what is commonly called a comely black man, with an air of distinction natural to his birth and condition.

Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749

He makes it according to the beauty of a man, in comely proportion, with those limbs and lineaments that are the beauty of a man, but are altogether unfit to represent the beauty of the Lord.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

"Now that's what I calls a comely lad!" continued Nabbem, pointing to the latter horseman; "none of your thin-faced, dark, strapping fellows like that

Paul Clifford — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And when they had taken it out, the body was so firm that it bent not on either side, and the flesh so firm and comely, that is seemed as if he were yet alive.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I recall a comely plant, for instance, seven feet high at the end of June, though now slumbering underground, in the Chemin de Saint Jacques -- there, where the steps begin ----

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

Anyone would have called her comely, and there were, indeed, no women in Stukely's barn to compare with her in that respect, a fact that she recognized.

Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905