seemlier

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.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Are seemlier hid; my thoughtless youth they blame,

The Odyssey of Homer 2003

It would have been seemlier for theologians in all ages, if their attitude towards physical inquirers had been less hostile; they would then have made converts through eclipses with a better grace.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

Yea and for thyself it is seemlier far to go thus than on foot, for the places where we must wash are a great way off the town.

Book VI Homer 1909

It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that Robert Gordon's warnings were neither impertinent nor untimeous.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

I ween indeed if ever it hap that Hrethel's heir by spear be seized, by sword-grim battle, by illness or iron, thine elder and lord, people's leader, -- and life be thine, -- no seemlier man will the Sea-Geats find at all to choose for their chief and king, for hoard-guard of heroes, if hold thou wilt thy kinsman's kingdom!

Beowulf Anonymous 1887

_Orestes_ calls loudly for admission, telling the slave who opens that he is a traveller, and must do his message to those within ere night falls; to a lady if a lady rules, though a lord is seemlier.

Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

Yea and for thyself it is seemlier far to go thus than on foot, for the places where we must wash are a great way off the town. '

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

"Nay, take him alive: a seemlier knight never backed steed!" cried the gallant Americans.

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878