| 1. | Let wealth come in by comely thrift. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | Bashful sincerity and comely love. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Form'd by Daedalean art a comely ban. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | And comely distant sits he by her sid. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | This is a happier and more comely tim. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | He is not a very quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, sound at heart.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | over it for in most comely truth thou deservest it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | There will be a merry company in the forest and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |