Fortunately, the 1973 tube stock serving Arnos Grove today, despite their hideously coloured interiors, are handsome things, the last of a civilised breed dating back to 1938.
He wrote that if the monument were seized by "any of your cruisers" patrolling the East coast, "I expect you will exert yourself to get it restored to us, because I know the generosity of your temper, which likes to do handsome things, as well as to make returns".
"He's one of the most handsome things you've ever seen in your life.
A handsome thing, colorizing hillsides north slope in great abundance.
I showed it to my wife and daughter, and they both agreed it was a handsome thing.
It was a handsome thing as sconces go, but in her house sconces went.
(RS) 1.10am GMT Bradley Cooper: he's a dashing chap, I guess, if you like that whole "classically handsome thing".
Vinterberg's comparatively compressed adaptation is a restrained, russet, handsome thing; it honours the circumspect romanticism of Thomas Hardy's novel, if not all the storied complications thereof.
He had a spatterware basin, a handsome thing Martine had bought, for doing dishes, rinsing with mouthwash (brushing was still uncomfortable), shaving, and washing above the waist.
If you can afford it, a good Swiss-made watch is a handsome thing to own – watches being, for most men, the only way to ornament themselves these days, eyebrow rings being so passé.
It is a handsome thing, hard to ignore, with the interesting idea that it can be partly dismantled after the Games, so as to avoid being the usual post-Olympic white elephant.
