Handsomest

Thorpe had even heard him called the handsomest man in England -- though this seemed in all likelihood an exaggeration. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)

I think of his marrying her the moment she was widowed, in defiance of all the rules, and their being called the handsomest couple in England, married for love, which nobody but the two of them would have dared to do. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

The commander of his flagship Erebus, James Fitzjames, often called the handsomest man in the Royal Navy, looked as striking and humble as the war hero he was. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

Then the father would force her to marry his son, who was known as the handsomest man in Scotland. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

"No, nor the Holmes's Hole folks don't think much of Oldtown; it's pretty much according to who you talk to, which place is called the handsomest, I reckon." ❋ Various (N/A)

"I think, my dear Brigit, that you are about the handsomest woman I ever saw -- that is, the handsomest _dark_ woman; but you look so damned ill-tempered that you will be hideous in ten years 'time." ❋ Bettina Von Hutten (1915)

The handsomest was the richly colored tiger bittern. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Gen. Breckinridge is called the handsomest man in the Confederate army, and Bragg might well be called the ugliest. ❋ Unknown (1908)

The wreath of laurel was woven by the fair hands of Constance Peutinger, who was called the handsomest girl in Germany, and with great ceremony she put this wreath on his head in the presence of the Emperor at Mainz. ❋ David Starr Jordan (1891)

General Breckenridge had been called the handsomest man in the United States when he was a candidate for ❋ Unknown (1887)

Of the public buildings of Sydney, the handsomest are the Treasury, the ❋ Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1886)

Zorzi looked first at one, and then at the other; the first was a very pale young man, with bright blue eyes and delicate features that were prematurely weary and even worn; Contarini was called the handsomest ❋ Unknown (1881)

"Ah, when I and my wife were married at Norcombe Church," said the old maltster, not pleased at finding himself left out of the subject "we were called the handsomest couple in the neighbourhood -- everybody said so." ❋ Unknown (1874)

Rice Jones was called the handsomest man in Kaskaskia, but his personal beauty was nothing to the ambitious force of his presence. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

He instances the horse, the yacht, and chiefly the sword, for proof, that the handsomest is the most effective. ❋ George Meredith (1868)