What is "well-made"

Usage examples of "well-made".

Suddenly the whole of the pit burst into loud applause at the appearance of a tall, well-made dancer, wearing a mask and an enormous black wig, the hair of which went half-way down his back, and dressed in a robe open in front and reaching to his heels.

He was a fine well-made man, faircomplexioned, and at least six feet high.

Scio, with a short skirt which concealed neither the perfection of the leg nor the round form of the thigh, nor the voluptuous plump fall of the hips, nor the slender, well-made waist encompassed in a splendid band embroidered in silver and covered with arabesques.

The second was a long, narrow foot, with an even, springy tread that argued a younger man, with unmangled feet, probably accustomed always to well-made, expensive shoes, certainly wearing new and good leather soles when these prints were salvaged from the leads.

This young man, well-made, pale, grave, as cold as a piece of marble, madly in love, who, in his reason mixed with utter despair, came to speak to me in such a manner with the most surprising calm, made me pause and consider.

I saw a well-made man of about my own age, slightly marked with the small-pox, and dressed as a traveller.

She was young, tall, well-made, had eyes full of fire, and skin of a dazzling whiteness.

I saw enter a well-made man of about forty, dressed in the uniform of an officer of I do not know what army, and bearing on his countenance all the marks of an escaped gallows'-bird.

Her husband was a fine, well-made man, who loved her tenderly, and had never slept apart from her.

He was between the ages of twenty and twenty-two, of a fair complexion, and well-made, but too pretty for a man.

She wore a well-made corset which disclosed a white throat, to which the fancy easily added the two spheres which would soon appear there.

It was not at all like the Catholic masses of Enderby's youth, dyspeptic Maynooth leprechauns peevish about last week's collections, or the anaemic evensongs of his brief curative Anglicanism, with fine if archaic Jacobean prose apologetically delivered by cricketing rectors and very well-made hymns bleated by conservativeclubcakebaking etiolated housewives with herb gardens.

Sassinak was a tall, well-made woman, but Aygar's height and bulk dwarfed her.

Tremane was not about to risk the lives of his men against a mob when a well-made wall would take all the risk out of the situation.

He wanted to smell fresh-cut wood, experience the satisfaction of a well-made dovetail joint.