handsome vs taking

handsome

adj
  • Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly 

  • Good, appealing, appropriate. 

  • Attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect. 

  • Fine, clear and bright. 

  • Ample; moderately large. 

  • Statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way. 

  • Generous or noble in character. 

  • Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate. 

taking

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

noun
  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

How often have the words handsome and taking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )