The last time, "I smiled," was for a man-at-arms who claimed he had been ill-looked by a Were Rider, and so lay with no life in his limbs. ❋ Norton, Andre (1965)
Nor did he produce me from his brain, as Jupiter that sour and ill-looked Pallas; but of that lovely nymph called Youth, the most beautiful and galliard of all the rest. ❋ C. 1466-1536 (1958)
But a Dream that I had of two ill-looked ones, that I thought did plot how to make me miscarry in my Journey, that hath troubled me much; yea, it still runs in my mind, and makes me afraid of every one that I meet, lest they should meet me to do me a mischief, and to turn me out of the way. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B — who made that story Mr. D — told you. ❋ Unknown (1888)
"Ubi tres medici duo athei," was, no doubt, in common use in Cardan's time; and he, as a doctor, would consequently be ill-looked upon by the champions of orthodoxy, who would certainly not be conciliated by the fact that he was the friend of Cardinal Morone. ❋ Unknown (1886)
He had no weapons save a short sword and a whittle in his girdle; he was not ill-looked, black-bearded and ruddy-faced, and seemed strong-built, a man of about five and forty winters. ❋ William Morris (1865)
He was not so fair a youth as the other, tall and stark, red-haired, the hair cut short to his head, yet no ill-looked man neither, grey-eyed and firm-lipped. ❋ William Morris (1865)
Cibber, that ill-looked dog Macklin, or that saucy slut Mrs Clive? ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
As for the ill-looked persons that had given the alarm, it was now discovered that another unhappy gentleman, and not ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
Duchesse, a damned ill-looked woman, complaining of her Lord's going to sea the next year, said these cursed words: "If my Lord had been a coward he had gone to sea no more: it may be then he might have been excused, and made an Embassador" (meaning my Lord Sandwich). ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)
At table the Duchesse, a damned ill-looked woman, complaining of her Lord's going to sea the next year, said these cursed words: "If my Lord had been a coward he had gone to sea no more: it may be then he might have been excused, and made an Embassador" (meaning my Lord Sandwich). ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1665)
You muft either lend your affiftance, or be ill-looked upon. ❋ Unknown (1794)
But he who concerted the whole affair, and prepared the way for the catastrophe, and who had given the greatest thought to the matter, was Antiphon, one of the best men of his day in Athens; who, with a head to contrive measures and a tongue to recommend them, did not willingly come forward in the assembly or upon any public scene, being ill-looked upon by the multitude owing to his reputation for cleverness; and who yet was the one man best able to aid in the courts, or before the assembly, the suitors who required his opinion. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)
“I suppose,” cries Honour, “the fellow is his pimp; for I never saw so ill-looked a villain. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B ” ” who made that story Mr. D ” ” told you. ❋ Parry, Edward A (1901)
