hard-favoured

• “Neither is sister Ursula so hard-favoured by nature, as from the effects of an accident; but your honour knows that when a woman is ugly, the men do not trouble themselves about the cause of her hard favour.”

  Castle Dangerous

• “Marcilius Picinus, Faber Stapulensis, a couple of dwarfs, [3609] Melancthon a short hard-favoured man, parvus erat, sed magnus erat, &c., yet of incomparable parts all three.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “In imitation of whom belike, a hard-favoured fellow in Greece, because he and his wife were both deformed, to get a good brood of children,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “This man looked very different from either of the two who had previously spoken; he was hard-favoured, but modest and manly - looking.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “Why, a woman as round and big as our largest water-butt - a rough, hard-favoured old girl.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “What! Bob, if you married an honest good-natured, and wealthy lass, though a little hard-favoured, couldn't you put up with the high cheek-bones, the rather wide mouth, and reddish hair?”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.”

  As You Like It

• “This is not an overdrawn portrait of the farmer race of Arabs, the most despised by their fellow-countrymen, and the most hard-favoured, morally as well as physically, of all the breed.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “They are so hard-favoured and monstrous that none can abide them.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “The coming of Cherry-Cheeks and one of the hard-favoured maids with the supper, followed by our host with the wine, followed in turn by Master”

  The Yeoman Adventurer

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