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  • Too welldressed-velvet jackets, tailored pants, sunlamp tan, shirt unbuttoned to show lots of chest hair — curly gray chest hair.

    When The Bough Breaks Kellerman, Jonathan 1985

  • Further fattened, welldressed, no longer a janitor.

    When The Bough Breaks Kellerman, Jonathan 1985

  • The streets of Rome, especially, but also in most of the other cities, are full of soldiers, welldressed, smart, self-conscious soldiers, with that look both Hitler and Mussolini deem to be part of the faith, a self-conscious, stony expression.

    London To Paris To Rome 1939

  • But they found that it was one thing to tell this welldressed young man that he was under arrest, but quite another to enforce it.

    The Return of Tarzan 1913

  • Englishman than an American, who is always welldressed, but rather gives the impression of being conscious of it.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • This very remark had been made by the three welldressed citizens, who were walking through the wide street, past the blue stone, and the eldest said to his companions:

    The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Sometimes I would turn my footsteps westward and fill my hungry, jealous eyes with a sight of the gay summer procession in Hyde Park, or listen to the band in Kensington Gardens, and see beautiful, welldressed women, and hear their sweet, refined voices and happy laughter; and a longing would come into my heart more passionate than my longing for the sea and France and distant lands, and quite as unutterable.

    Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

  • Mr. Ringgan was still busy with his newspaper, Miss Cynthia Gall going in and out on various errands, Fleda shut up in the distant room with the muffins and the smoke; when there came a knock at the door, and Mr. Ringgan's "Come in!" was followed by the entrance of two strangers, young, welldressed, and comely.

    Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

  • "I never," William wrote that evening to Heinsius, "I never saw such a multitude of welldressed people."

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • A very welldressed brown woman, who was sitting at her work at a small table, along with two young girls of the same complexion, instantly rose to receive us.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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