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 * 1780, The Parliamentary Register, page 511:
 * Mr. Townsend also spoke about the Scotch beer, and said he had once lost a wager by laying that there was not as good beer brewed in Scotland as in England, his friend having sent to Ediburgh for a butt of beer from a Mr. Bell, which, when he tasted, he was forced to confeess it was as good beer as any brewed in England. As he praised it very highly, his friend paid him a personal compliment, but he would leave the House to consider how sincere a compliment it was, when his friend told him he was a very handsome man!


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
 * They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.
 * Here, again, were shadows on the window-blind of guests assembling; and there a group of handsome girls, all hooded and fur-booted, and all chattering at once, tripped lightly off to some near neighbour's house; where, woe upon the single man who saw them enter — artful witches, well they knew it — in a glow!