Which preposition to use with profile
Silhouetted over the flaw-less white of the deck house was the sullen, polished profile of the Nigger.
I can use the lower shelf of the china-table, eh, ma?" Mrs. Horowitz, whose face, the color of old linen in the yellowing, emerged rather startling from the still black hair strained back from it, lay back in her chair, turning her profile against the upholstered back, half a wreath and a trail of raffia sliding to the floor.
"The best portrait of Southey in his daughter's collection is a profile in waxa style that I have seen several times in England, and which I think very pretty.
The goat idea, indeed, has little more foundation than the suggestive resemblance of the profile with its caprine beard.
TIETJENS, EUNICE. Profiles from home.
" He was leaning on his elbow, profile to her.
I have taken Professor Kingsley's profile for him.
Within this moon-illumined glen? Ah, who can doubt it, when these vines Form trellised screens for distant snow, And trace in arabesque designs Their profiles on the Alpine glow?
Profile by gaslight.
The eye is large, and approaches near the profile without trenching on it.
Not much "stop" should be apparent, but there should be more dip in the profile between the forehead and top jaw than is seen in the case of a Greyhound.
Brass rings clashed softly on a pole, a gap opened in heavy draperies curtaining a window, a shaft of street light threw the girl's profile into soft relief.
Then Jack saw a slim, pliant form hastening by and a brown profile under hair bare of a hat, with eyes straight ahead.
" From time to time Stoddard had sent swift, sidelong glances at his companion, noting the bright, bent head, the purity of line in the profile above the steering-wheel, the intelligent beauty of the intent, down-dropped eyes, with long lashes almost on the flushed cheeks.
Then the profile at which Carmen had been gloomily gazing turned into a full face.
A profile out of a picture of Holbein in every-day dress.
The wonderful beauty of Orcagna's faces, profile after profile laid together like lilies in a garden border, can only be discovered after long study.
"She was hanging on to the table at the time and when she let go to embrace him, instead of being clasped to his yearning bosom, as she had planned, her knees gave away and she skated on her profile across the divan.
And indeed, the beast had kept a fairly low profile until recently.
They had big, beautiful brown eyes, and dark hair fastened high with jewelled pins, and profiles like those of the fair ladies of
I could catch merely a glimpse of the man's profile beneath the broad brim of the hat, but his coolness and silence aroused my suspicions.