well-liking

Now indeed thou art fair and well-liking, and a fair lady might well take pleasure in beholding thee.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

He was well-fed and well-liking, his face and throat were handsome enough and he was a gentleman.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

This boy is twice Pen - dragon, and from all reports as well-liking as any boy will ever be.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

So under another phase of its primary sense we find the epithet used to express the excellence and characteristic qualities proper to the idea or standard of its subject, to wit, genuine, thrifty, well-liking, appropriate, not abortive, monstrous, prodigious, discordant.

Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

There he continued for some time, behaving to the well-liking of his master; yet even then he was so much out of humour with work that he associated himself with some idle young fellows who afterwards drew him into those illegal acts which proved fatal to his reputation and his life.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

The little Emperor was fat and well-liking -- an ideal _créche_ for young ichneumons; but the little Emperor was very wide-awake.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

It is certain that they are very nutritious creatures, and that in times of famine people have supported life and kept themselves mysteriously "fat and well-liking" by resorting to snails and slugs as articles of diet.

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

"Confound him," said Luttrell, who was fat and well-liking.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

This custom she kept ever thereafter, and she lay in with her second son in the city of Meadhamstead, so that he was born therein; and she named him to be King after her, to the great joy of that folk; and he grew up strong and well-liking, and came to the kingship while his mother was yet alive, and was a good man and well-beloved of his folk.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

Day after day one of his herd used to disappear, coming back in the evening to join the homeward procession, very fat and well-liking.

The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893