Noun : His fine lineaments made him the very image of his father. ,the lineaments of sincere repentance. From Dictionary.com.
When on the canvass thus the lineaments he caught. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
"You say your girlhood lineaments are preserved in your daughter?". From Wordnik.com. [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference
He deemed that on those lineaments, this was the language forcibly engraven!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
They stand erect, they display human lineaments, and seem capable of articulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
This word of the Lord puts before me the unlovely lineaments of the false shepherds. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Art thou the offspring in whom the lineaments of these tyrants are faithfully preserved?. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
The lineaments were not those of any one of my acquaintance, and recalled no countenance I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
With intense anxiety depicted on her lineaments she asked tremulously: "Did she tell you about the surplus?". From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
In opposition to such militarists stands Count Frithiof, in whom we may easily see the lineaments of Tolstoi. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
He saw it in every one of those faded lineaments, upon which such a change had been wrought in so short a time. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Those idle rimes to note the odious spot and blemish that deformes the lineaments of modern poesies habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Having finished it he brought it to life, and the image stood forth in the most favoured lineaments of his fellows. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
There was a strong expression of shrewdness in his lineaments; the eye alone indicated the poetic character and temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Her features and head, though decidedly African, were not of that coarse and heavy cast that marks the lineaments of her race. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Crawford's interest in portrait-busts was secondary, owing to his inventive ardor; the study he bestowed upon the lineaments of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
I mean simply to say that they are all sketches from the life and are as true to their own lineaments as my hand could make them. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Egyptian history again, even at this moment, is seen stealing upon us through the dusky twilight in its first distinct lineaments. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
He stood watching her figure, with its inspired lineaments, and thought of the fabled prodigies of music spoken of in ancient story. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Using the lineaments of fantasy to tell the truth about the universal experience of growing up, Pullman proves he knew it all along. From Wordnik.com. [Pullman's Progress] Reference
Richards chappell, a man as like him in stature and proportion in all lineaments of bodie, as vnlike in birth, dignitie, and conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV] Reference
She watched his face, and scanned every one of those noble lineaments, which now lay before her with something like their natural beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
His movements, his words, his accent, his clothes, his facial lineaments were never commonplace, even when his motives often may have been. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Stocking, Long Tom Coffin, and other heroes, rise before the mind, each in his clearly defined and peculiar lineaments, as striking original. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
For already, in my fervent youth, I saw (dimly relieved upon the dark background of my dreams) the imperfect lineaments of the awful sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The Greek said, -- "With these superhuman lineaments you are to conceive the presence of Jove; these are the appropriate forms of the immortals.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
Grief, Poetry, Fame, or Hope, brooding over the lineaments of the illustrious dead, seem, of all sepulchral decorations, the most apt and impressive. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Her costumes varied, but they always suggested the same dark but brilliant lineaments, the same graceful movements, the same peculiarly lovely tones. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Mark the lineaments of divine grace and the gleaming eyes, what a breath is hers, what a countenance, and the sound of her voice and the steps of her going. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Her air, her figure, had very much the appearance of Melissa; but the lineaments of her countenance were, when viewed by the light of day, widely dissimilar. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Death, in its pale, still, fixed image, -- always solemn, sometimes beautiful, -- would have inspired primeval humanity to mould and chisel the lineaments of clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Nora on the ice and Nora at home were so different, that they could not harmonize; nor could the never-to-be-forgotten lineaments of the one be traced in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Whatever be man's past history and evolution, he has from the beginning been made in God's image, and bears the divine impress in all the lineaments of body and soul. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
I turned on my side -- and, oh! by its light, I saw the face I most loved -- that face, whose gentle lineaments, were each deeply and separately engraven on my heart. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Think of the mothers who have gone down, in bitter, bitter sorrow, to the grave, with some of the lineaments we see around before their mind's eye at the latest moment!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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