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  • "If I were lord of Gruyère," was the reply, "I would not give up my fair mistress for that ill-featured dame."

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • A little, ill-featured man, with a small, but florid face, a keen, lecherous eye, leans on his arm.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • The road was tolerably good for the last three miles, running along a narrow valley sprinkled with numerous forts, which are generally occupied by the Huzareh tribes, an ill-featured but athletic race.

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • We have so often seen aged Juliets; stiff, stagey Juliets; fat, roomy Juliets; and ill-featured Juliets, that the sight of a young, lady-like girl with natural dramatic genius, a bright face, an unworn voice, is truly refreshing.

    Mary Anderson J. M. Farrar

  • FRENCH, BUT VERY LITTLE ENGLISH, he is a very ill-featured Fellow, and has been much cut in his Back by often Whipping; his Clothing was only a Frock and Trowsers.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • And as he went there approached from the north a half-dozen ill-featured men who went stealthily through the jungle as go men bent upon the commission of a wicked act.

    The Beasts of Tarzan 1914

  • And as he went there approached from the north a half-dozen ill-featured men who went stealthily through the jungle as go men bent upon the commission of a wicked act.

    Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • The stronger light in which he now sat revealed him as a big fair man, by no means ill-featured, his soldierly figure emphasised by the gunner mess-dress of those days, with its high scarlet waistcoat and profusion of round gilt buttons, in each of which twin flames winked and sparkled.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • So far as they could judge -- for he stood with the waning light at his back -- he was not ill-featured; but, by his manner of mopping his brow, he was most ungracefully hot, and Molly declared ever afterwards that his thick worsted stockings, seen against the ball of the sun, gave his calves

    Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "One window should be shelter enough for a sojer -- and la! you're none so ill-featured for a pair of Whigs."

    Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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