• Today, it is a famously laid-back city that girdles a comely, Sydney-pattern harbour.

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  • Newspapers that had scorned him were full of pictures of him dancing the night away with his comely wife, Daniela.

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  • She is journeying from Oklahoma to L.A. She meets a guy, the comely Drew (Diego Boneta) who arranges for her to wait tables at the Bourbon Room on the Sunset Strip.

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  • With the muscular form of Michelangelo's David setting hearts a-flutter outside the Galleria dell'Accademia, and comely Renaissance maidens in every gallery, it's the artistic heart of Florence that plucks at the heart strings.

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  • She turned on her side to better look at it, and noticed for the first time how comely it was, how round and smooth were its face and shoulders and belly, how lustrous was its hair.

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  • By a comely maiden for preference.

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  • With a flick of her wrist or a tilt of her comely head she could persuade 16 snarling and terrifyingly unpredictable Bengal tigers to jump through hoops or pile on top of one another to form a great orange and black pyramid.

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  • One of the most popular solitaire games, Tomb Raider, does this by putting the player in control of a comely adventuress who must both act out a role in a story involving a search for treasure and engage in more straightforward video-game fighting.

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  • Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).

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  • Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.

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