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Definition of Comeliest
1. comely [adj] - See also: comely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comeliest
Literary usage of Comeliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... But in the glen strive armed men ; They've wrought me dole and sorrow; They've
slain—the comeliest knight they've slain— He bleeding lies on Yarrow. ..."
2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... by their scanty and inferior diet, but also by the loss of their comeliest
maidens and best young men, who were carried off into slavery by the Modoc. ..."
3. Herodotus by Herodotus (1920)
"the fairest of all ; and then when she had fetched a great price he put up for
sale the next comeliest, selling all the maidens as lawful wives. ..."
4. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1882)
"But in the glen strive armed men; They 've wrought me dole and sorrow; They've
slain — the comeliest knight they've slain — He bleeding lies on Yarrow. ..."
5. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx by JOHN. RHYS (1901)
"Liath, whose name means ' grey,' is described as the comeliest youth of noble
rank among the fairies of Erin; and the only time the Welsh ..."
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