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  • She might be soft where well-set-up men were concerned, but she was no fool, and had a nose for mischief that a peeler would have envied.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • For my years I was a well-set-up lad, long in the arms and deep in the chest.

    Prester John 2005

  • All but the soldiers, Turk and German, who seemed well-set-up fellows.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • She was one of those well-set-up rather masculine old ladies who repelled him slightly.

    The Years 2004

  • Aurore is a well-set-up girl, a beautiful upright soul in a strong body.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • Count Ilya Rostov, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him.

    War and Peace 2003

  • And Richard would have served under her, cheerfully; he had the greatest respect for her; he cherished these romantic views about well-set-up old women of pedigree, and would have liked, in his good-humoured way, to bring some young hot-heads of his acquaintance to lunch with her; as if a type like hers could be bred of amiable tea-drinking enthusiasts!

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

  • A workman, by his clothes, and what my grandfather would have called "a well-set-up young feller".

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • A workman, by his clothes, and what my grandfather would have called "a well-set-up young feller".

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Following Sophie's gaze, Jack beheld a well-set-up young man, unquestionably recently up from the country if his coat was any guide, bearing determinedly down on the group about Sophie's cousin.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

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