It is the boundary which one crosses only by limning.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference

Grim determination limning his icy eyes, Conan crawled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

I knew no one in the dale who had the talent for limning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Gryphon]

The light shone clearly, limning what lay below in perfect detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

Schiff is especially skilled at limning the social contours of the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana] Reference

'Tis but the soul's limning -- a musical nature is hers, emotional and imaginative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference

The red moon shone down on Govinna, limning the roofs of its temples with crimson fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Everyone here has reacted negatively to your carefully limning a sketch of the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Evening in Cambridge] Reference

How could it be otherwise after the limning of such a scene as that described in Henry IV?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Ferguson is at his best in limning the differences between Britain and America's appetite for empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN EMPIRE IN DENIAL] Reference

Only red Lunitari rose to shed its light on the desert, limning the rocks and the dunes in a rosy glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

As Karen points out below, Michael Grunwald does a good job limning the banalities elsewhere on this site.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lousy Debate…plus Latest Column - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

The fire struck a knot of pitch and blazed up suddenly behind the settle, limning their faces in gold and black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

Below them stretched the blue curve of the Earth, and the glow of the sun limning the far horizon with pale fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

The sun was setting now behind the reefs, limning their karst topography of ragged peaks and steep-walled valleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

Half a dozen men walked beside Langley, the reflected glow of flashbeams limning their faces ghostly against shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Way Home]

Moonlight glinted softly off the surface of the Amur, limning the cluster of islands at the confluence with the Ussuri.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Her soft, moist lips brushed his cheek, his hair, his mouth, limning his lips with the salty taste of the sea he loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

Yet in my mind was so vivid a picture of that I could have painted it, had I any skill in limning, in every small detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Gryphon]

The remaining two examples are poetic, but both make sense to me as a shorter equivalent of limning in its normal meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference

Watts has an uncanny way with limning the daily life of two centuries past, and embodying it in genuinely frontierish prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Race] Reference

Loeb does have a bit of a way with paint, particularly in limning slightly fuzzy edges to objects on very rough, nubby canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra: Color Me Cool] Reference

Each one isn't necessarily all that interesting, but I like to see them all together, limning the arc of a year in the life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

On comparing these instructions with those of the sixteenth century, one is struck with the emphasis they lay upon drawing and "limning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference

Invisible hands are limning a glory of crimson bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of American Patriotism] Reference

But the canvas of my imagination, when it came to limning the Man About.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

Hilarius crimsoned, he was weary of limning ever with blue and gold, he faltered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering of Brother Hilarius] Reference

It was almost as though something tangible were limning the man's soul upon his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

To this autumnal limning, the following spring picture may be a fitting accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

How the imagination fills up this outline limning by her friend, and, if truth must be told, admirer!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Two painters who teach at the UA deliver works limning Eastern Europe, particularly its packed cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Weekly] Reference

Father Peter limning the blessed saints in blue, and red, and gold, of which art he taught me a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monk of Fife] Reference

She had much to say about limning, in which my Husband could follow her better than I; and then they went to the Globes, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary] Reference