She was young and very comely, and it was, he felt, cruelly hard on her that, bearing her father's shame, she must lead a life of hard labour at that desolate ranch.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
"A young and beautiful lady," so runs the tale, "came every morning at sunrise, and every evening at sunset, to look at the head of a comely youth with long yellow hair, till at length the lady and the laddie's head disappeared."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
She was not much beyond twenty, and still comely with youth and health and hope.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas