"Better-looking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looked at each other, but each could see that the others were not any better-looking than usual. The Psammead pushed out his long eyes, and seemed to be holding its breath and swelling itself out till it was twice as fat and furry as before. Suddenly it let its breath go ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... came up to him and gave him a more imposing presence, making him taller and stouter than before. When he came back his son was surprised to see him looking so like an immortal, and said to him, "My dear father, some one of the gods has been making you much taller and better-looking." ...
— The Odyssey • Homer
... that young man is better-looking than my son," said Madame Phellion to Madame Colleville. "What do ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, ...
— The Chorus Girl and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... "My mother is a better-looking woman. I heard some French fops, yonder, designating her as 'le type du voluptueux;' if so, I can only say, 'le voluptueux' is little to my liking. Compare that ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
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