The piano was open, music littered about; she was fond of music and she admired very much a portrait of father as a boy in the Harrow dress, asked who it was and what the dress was.

He said nothing of the adventure to his young wife, for, as he said to himself "Women are curious, and then, too, sometimes they are given to talking," and Kiki-Tsum felt that it was too reverent a matter to be discussed by neighbours, this finding of his dead father's portrait in the street.

Who shall say that this is not the very portrait by which we have fancied him stalking off to Commons?

A novel writer, of any talents, will draw his portraits from the lifewill catch at every striking feature, and generally paint man as he is; and there is this difference between actual histories and works of imagination, that the former are for the most part true in letter, but false in spirit; and

Her rooms were large, very high ceilings, very little furniture in them, very little fire in winter, fine old family portraits on the walls, but from the windows one looked down on a lovely garden where the sun shone and the birds sang all day.

He could not see any resemblance in the dark, handsome face to the portrait at home, though all through the flight from Richmond something in the man's manner had seemed like a memory.

"She has removed the family portraits to the lumber-room.

Why, Fortune is only a woman, you know, and what woman could have refused him anything if he had smiled at her like that when he asked for it?" Miss Stapylton gazed up at the portrait for a long time now, her hands clasped under her chin.

[on a picture],' says Northcote, 'except in the instance of Mrs. Siddons's portrait as the Tragic Muse, when he wrote his name upon the hem of her garment.

After my wife's death I departed from Florence, leaving behind me the impression that I intended soon to return; and I would have been glad to take the portrait with me, but I had no opportunity.

Whose hand had secured that portrait before the Leithcourt's flight?

Doubtless she paints portraits over solar prints.

Notwithstanding the diminished price and the increase of exertion to please, and although I am conscious of painting much better portraits than formerly (which, indeed, stands to reason if I make continual exertion to improve), yet with all I receive no new commissions, cold and procrastinating answers from those to whom I write and who had put their names on my list.

He was christened "Riou," after the Col of that name, and his owner has very kindly drawn his portrait among his native hills, to adorn these pages.

R71979, 18Dec50, Bert O. Godfrey (A) GODS OF MODERN GRUB STREET; impressions of contemporary authors, by A. St John Adcock; with portraits after photographs by E. O. Hoppé.

I moved one more portrait into the line under the flags tied with blackthat was all.

PRICE, CHESTER B. Portraits of ten country houses.

Shakspeare, in the wide range of his feminine personnel, has no portrait like this.

I did not adequately appreciate the degradation of their expressions for some time; at last the sense of it took firm hold of me, and I cannot now handle the portraits without overcoming by an effort the aversion they suggest.

No statistician dreams of combining objects into the same generic group that do not cluster towards a common centre; no more should we attempt to compose generic portraits out of heterogeneous elements, for if we do so the result is monstrous and meaningless.

I saw that she was nude, except for a thin and delicate drapery of purple, which, albeit in some parts it covered the milk-white body, yet no more concealed it from my ravished eyes than does the transparent glass conceal the portrait beneath it.

One portrait amongst the many attracts our attention: it looks singular; it is the half-length figure of an old man in a shirt, lying in his bed.

The most conspicuous ornament was a large full-length portrait against the side of the wall.

The Elia essay "My Relations" contains John Lamb's full-length portrait under the name of James Elia.

"I hadn't planned to do any portraits until Fall.