prepossessing

• His exceeding loveliness was immediately prepossessing, the delicacy of his constitution rendered him interesting in the eyes of women, the full yet graceful cultivation of his mind, the sweet and captivating originality of his conversation, gained for him the attention of the most enlightened men. —  Life of Chopin
• For my part I had scarcely glanced at the ladies whom Desmoulin had conjectured to be French actresses—simply because they were young, prepossessing, and spoke French!—and certainly I should not readily have recognised Mrs. Spalding, whom I had only met once some years previously. —  With Zola in England
• His appearance and manner were prepossessing, and we at once became intimate. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• It was not particularly prepossessing, and the exertions he was making added not a little to its natural ugliness. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• But her appearance was by no means prepossessing, and she was very slow, her maximum speed being about nine knots. —  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

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