121 examples of well-made in sentences

A well-made suet crust may be used instead of puff crust, and will be found exceedingly good.

The characteristics of the Berkshire hog are that it has a tawny colour, spotted with black, large ears hanging over the eyes, a thick, close, and well-made body, legs short and small in the bone; feeds up to a great weight, fattens quickly, and is good either for pork or bacon.

She was just such a boat as Mrs. Kinzer would naturally have provided for her boy,stout, well-made, and sensible,without any bad habits of upsetting or the like.

A little beyond this, we got into a sea, not of water, but of milk; and upon it we saw an island full of vines; this whole island was one compact well-made cheese, as we afterwards experienced by many a good meal, which we made upon it, and is in length five-and- twenty stadia.

[Illustration: Fig. 170.A Compound Microscope] For elementary class work a moderate-priced, but well-made and strong, instrument should be provided.

Still, he traversed the Boulevard de l'Hôpital with a firm step, being a fine well-made man, apparently about forty-eight years old.

She executed the graceful swaying movement which only a well-made woman can make just before sitting down for the first time in a perfectly new gown.

[Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical &c (regular) 242; harmonious &c (color) 428; sightly. fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.

Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome, well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance to be prepossessing.

Physically well-made, he was dark of skin, with dark, curly hair, thick lips, and close-set Eastern eyes.

This beautiful dog, who had a most distinguished show career, was a well-made black, tan, and white, with an enormous coat and beautiful flowing white mane; one of the most active movers, displaying quality all through, and yet having plenty of substance.

"The Sumatrans are a well-made people, with yellow complexions, sometimes inclining to white.

I saw one old woman, gray-haired and tanned like an Indian squaw with work in the fields, yet with a fine, well-made face, pushing a groaning wheelbarrow.

They are often attended with well-made young men in the prime of life, and yet I never heard but of one instance of their engaging in a love-intrigue of any kind.

So we sipped the well-made breakfast tea beneath the cherry blossoms as I told her about my boys and Miss Lavinia's expected visit.

There he was, a tall, straight, active, well-made, well-grown and decidedly handsome lad of seventeen, who had doubled the Cape of Good Hope, seen foreign parts, and had a real India handkerchief hanging out of each pocket of a blue round-about of superfine cloth, besides one around his half-open well-formed throat, that was carelessly tied in a true sailor knot!

Even what she sometimes playfully called her petit vice had not made her haggard or worn, and she had never lost interest in becoming, well-made clothes.

Good housekeeping is quite as essential to the world's good, and to the healthful development of humanity, as good farming or the proper construing of well-made laws, neither of which is to be undervalued.

Alvez's face lit up at the sight of these few well-made blacks, to whom rest and more abundant food had promptly restored their natural vigor.

Madockawando's daughter was of a lighter color than most of her tribe, and finer in her proportions, though they were a well-made people.

She was tall and well-made, we may almost say robust.

[Illustration: Design of a Room, in the Classic Style, by Thomas Hope, Architect, In 1807.] Snell, of Albemarle Street, had been established early in the century, and obtained an excellent reputation; his specialité was well-made birch bedroom suites, but he also made furniture of a general description.

Your tailor, depend on it, is your great civilizer, and a well-made suit of clothes is in itself a liberal education.

One was small and slight, as simply dressed as a gentleman of the period could be; another was clad in a gay coat with a good deal of fluttering ribbon and rich lace; the third, a tall well-made man, had a plain walking suit, surmounted by a flowing periwig and plumed beaver.

All were well-grown well-made men, strong and agile, the countenance pleasing, rather square of mould, eyebrows straight and thick, nose well cut and short, chin firm and resolute-looking, and the complexion very dark in Raymond, Frank, and the absent Miles.

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