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button over their heads when they were instantly transformed into two ill-favoured old ladies..." c. 1640 the city of Greifswald, Germany was infested by...

character called "the Major" offers to place the money on the decidedly ill-favoured Indian Runner in a forthcoming horse race. Anxious to wed Nina, Adam...

Muslim historians, Lubna was known as al-Samajij, which could mean "ill-favoured" (ugly) or even "without any good quality". Abdulmalik ibn Hisham. Notes...

engineer Harry and the silent third engineer Beale. The boatswain, "an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed...

girl. Touchstone introduces her to the Duke as 'a poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own'. She is attracted by the courtly manners and...

bus station. This is part of the Southgate redevelopment in which an ill-favoured 1960s shopping precinct, bus station and multi-storey car park were demolished...

from 16th-century French haridelle, 'old horse', in metaphor a 'gaunt, ill-favoured woman'). It has taken on the meaning of scolding, nagging, bossy, belligerent...

times', been ill-regarded, taken an opportunity to better themselves and done well, demonstrating remarkable social mobility. Possibly ill-favoured in appearance...

"good-stature and fair", could not have descended from the "dark, diminutive and ill-favoured" aboriginal natives of India. He proposed that their ancestors were Scythians...

Timorous. She wonders if Christiana will actually go on pilgrimage. Ill-favoured Ones, two evil characters Christiana sees in her dream, whom she and...

he performed very gracefully". He himself jested on his own "bent and ill-favoured brow", Lord Exeter replying that had he been "cursed with a meek brow...

description" in Brighton, where Paul is sent for his health. "A marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like...

and part-narrator, in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone. Ill-favoured, and of ill repute, he is ultimately responsible for solving the mystery of...

air is moist and hazy, and the people depicted by Ostade are short and ill-favoured, marked with adversity's stamp in feature and dress. Brouwer, who painted...

dress; surrounded himself with Cuman concubines, and neglected and ill-used his ill-favoured Neapolitan consort. When they wanted to leave Hungary, Ladislaus...

the Second is ridiculed under the nickname of Old Rowley; which was an ill-favoured stallion, kept in the Mews, but remarkable for getting fine colts. Mrs...

Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times commented that she was "not so ill-favoured as she has been described". Webster's appearance and behaviour were seen...

the proposed Trans-Continental Exploring Expedition, but his suit was ill-favoured by the committee, in the main because of the English prejudice of leading...

and good sportsmen, as many an English Consul knows, and by no means ill favoured The Inter-war period is of great interest regarding Aromanian history...

Sidhe have been stealing the young mortal children, and leaving some ill-favoured brat in the cradle in place of the true child. The rocks slope abruptly...