It is vital to recognize that words which historians happily adopt from contemporary accounts - ' beautification ', ' neglect ', ' comely ', ' unadorned ' - are value-ridden and often polemically constructed.
Indeed, the only visual devices that gave the phrases profile are the punctuation and accents that - happily - correspond to the comely lines of the chant.
I should have thought that something like that would look more comely in the centre of the building, rather than at the end.
If we do not make our cities comely to look at, then much of our lives becomes imperceptibly more ugly.
A farm labourer had two daughters, who were comely maids and were educated in the village school.
One can only guess, and build up a not very comely or homely figure.
When we took off the straitjacket of "wholly or partly", we invited them to dress themselves in something more comely and more flexible.
Yet his broadsword could not protect him against his own fiery temper and weakness for comely wenches, both of which often landed him in trouble.
