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Handsome in sentence

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Her husband, who was a millowner, railed at the clumsy fellow, and while she was with her handkerchief wiping up the stains from her handsome cherry-coloured taffeta gown, he angrily muttered about indemnity, costs, reimbursement.
There was one especially, a tall handsome man with small moustaches, who was that funny!
Their rapid growth, and handsome foliage of a bluish tint are due to the artificial soil with which the Mayor has filled in the space behind his immense retaining wall, for, despite the opposition of the town council, he has widened the avenue by more than six feet (although he is an Ultra and I myself a Liberal, I give him credit for it), that is why, in his opinion and in that of M. Valenod, the fortunate governor of the Verrieres poorhouse, this terrace is worthy to be compared with that of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Being alone in the church, he took his seat on the bench that had the most handsome appearance.
The jealousy of these rough labourers had been so quickened by the sight of their brother's handsome black coat, and air of extreme gentility, as well as by the sincere contempt which he felt for them, that they had proceeded to thrash him, leaving him there unconscious and bleeding freely.
For she had sent to Besancon for the handsome work on the subject by M. Godart; and Julien read to her the strange habits of these insects.
But one thing made them forget all the others: the left-hand man in the ninth section was a handsome lad, very slender, who at first was not identified.
The front was painted white, and the windows adorned with handsome green shutters.
It was a face that would have had more gravity but for the extreme subtlety that appeared in certain of its features, and would actually have suggested dishonesty, if the owner of that handsome face had ceased for a moment to control it.
The handsome abbe followed him, and Julien was left alone in this parlour, the pious magnificence of which he could now admire at his leisure.
'But you must be well aware,' the abbe went on in a harsh tone, 'that he is not giving you all this money for your handsome face.
A handsome young man, wearing moustaches, very pale and slender, entered the room at about half-past six; he had an extremely small head.
'That air of reserve is as much as to say: "How charming I should make myself to you, if you were the man that was worthy of me."''And who could be worthy of the sublime Mathilde?' said the first: 'Some reigning Prince, handsome, clever, well made, a hero in battle, and aged twenty at the most.''The natural son of the Emperor of Russia, for whom, on the occasion of such a marriage, a Kingdom would be created; or simply the Comte de Thaler, with his air of a peasant in his Sunday clothes . .
'That he, who really is so handsome,' Mathilde said to herself at length, awakening from her dreams, 'should pay such a tribute to ugliness!
Altamira had paid him a handsome compliment, evidently springing from a profound conviction: 'You have not the French frivolity, and you understand the principle of _utility_.'
Never had he seemed so handsome to Mathilde; she found in him an expression of sensibility and frankness which he often lacked.
My God, how handsome she is!
She, on her part, was most unjust to the handsome men on horseback who throng the Bois de Boulogne.
He himself frequently abstracted a volume or two of the handsome edition so magnificently bound.
And he is so handsome!
She abhorred want of character, it was her sole objection to the handsome young men among whom she lived.
Lying on the grass, his hand on his heart, he must extend a handsome pardon to his adversary and leave a message for a fair one who is often imaginary, or who goes to a ball on the day of his death, for fear of arousing suspicion.
'One must admit that he did look handsome when he climbed on the chair, to replace the sword, precisely in the picturesque position which the decorator had chosen for it!
But the adroitness with the want of which we are reproaching him would have debarred the sublime impulse of seizing the sword which, at that moment, made him appear so handsome in the eyes of Mademoiselle de La Mole.
'But if one has a weakness,' she said to herself, 'it is incumbent upon a girl like myself to forget her duties only for a man of merit; people will not be able to say that it was his handsome moustaches or his elegant seat on a horse that seduced me, but his profound discussions of the future in store for France, his ideas as to the resemblance the events that are going to burst upon us may bear to the Revolution of 1688 in England.
Julien's thoughts were a thousand leagues away from the peasant's, he was looking with amazement at this handsome young man, and admiring his grace in the saddle.
With the distinction of being under sentence of death, this handsome foreigner combined abundant gravity and had the good fortune to be devout; these two merits and, more than all, the exalted birth of the Count were entirely to the taste of Madame de Fervaques, who saw much of him.
Her old porter noticed that, when he brought her a letter from that handsome young man, who wore such a melancholy air, he was certain to see vanish the distracted and irritated expression which the Marechale always took care to assume when any of her servants entered the room.
'Do not be angry with me, my little Julien,' she said, embracing him, 'I was obliged to give my name to this secretary, who took me for a young milliner from Paris, enamoured of the handsome Julien ...Indeed, those are his very words.
She did not even find on his handsome countenance the imprint of that energetic, that almost wild virtue, so antipathetic to Parisian society.
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