34 Verbs to Use for the Word lineaments

It is a higher difficulty, and implies a nobler art to represent the movement and complexity of life and emotion than to catch the fixed lineaments of outward aspect.

The new-born child was usually presented naked to the astrologer, who read the first lineaments in its forehead, and the transverse lines in its hands, and thence wrote down its future destiny.

The Assyrian is as much Lord Byron as Childe Harold was, and bears his lineaments in as clear a likeness, as a voluptuary unsated could do those of the emaciated victim of satiety.

My fancy wanders as I thus portray The lineaments on which 'tis bliss to gaze: How beautiful their prototype!

I discerned the lineaments of a head, and the hideous outlines of a shapeless anatomy.

Henceforward the dream of universal sovereignty took ever more distinctive lineaments in his mind.

The painter agreed to refer himself to the judgment of a blind man; who being brought where there was a statue made by the one, and a picture drawn by the other; he was first led to the statue, in which he traced with his hands all the lineaments of the face and body, and with great admiration applauded the skill of the workman.

The children exhibit the lineaments of the pituitary-centered type.

Is it not strange that such a one as I should retain lineaments of a human creature?

A third sort in a mean course betwixt the two other, and compounded of them both, bestowed their time in drawing out the true lineaments of every virtue and vice, so lively, that who saw the medals might know the face; which art they significantly termed Charactery.

Lofty natural mounds rose amidst the rest, with the same lovely and sweeping outline, showing everywhere the plastic power of water,water, mother of beauty, which, by its sweet and eager flow, had left such lineaments as human genius never dreamt of.

But as the sun in water we can bear Yet not the sun, but his reflection there, So let us view her, here, in what she was, And take her image in this watery glass: Yet look not every lineament to see; 140 Some will be cast in shades, and some will be So lamely drawn, you'll scarcely know 'tis she.

A mournful hue overcasts its lineaments; nevertheless, a correspondency is between the child by the grave, and that celestial orphan, whom I saw above; and the dimness of the grief upon the heavenly, is as a shadow or emblem of that which stains the beauty of the terrestrial.

The great danger in this class of poems, is lest imported sentiment and historical reminiscence should overpower the living lineaments, and all but blot out the memory of the actual landscape.

He has painted the Indian lineaments on the spot, and is entitled to patronagenot as supplying all that is desirable, or practicable, perhaps, but as a first and original effort.

Hast ever heard of me, in thy frequent visits to the port?" Maso smiled; at first, he appeared disposed to be facetious; but a dark cloud passed over his swarthy lineaments, and he lost his pleasantry, in an air of thoughtfulness that struck his interrogator as singular.

Marrying early, in fact, is taking time by the forelock, and leading your future destinies after you, instead of suffering yourself to be led and tossed about by them,it is tearing away the black veil from the brow of futurity, and perusing all her lineaments in her own despite.

Think first of the privilege we all possess now of preserving the lineaments and looks of those dear to us.

In spite of that thickone is inclined to say rankgrowth of miracles which at times confuse Adamnan's fine portrait of his herocover it thick as lichens some monumental slab of marblewe can still recognize his real lineaments underneath.

Pondering thus, I lost myself in a labyrinth of fantastic reveries, till the hand and the brain worked independently of each otherthe one swiftly reproducing upon canvas the outer lineaments of the dead; the other laboring to retrace foregone facts of which no palpable evidence remained.

There is scarcely enough of this to reveal the exact lineaments of their hero; but if we may judge from these fragments as given by Carriedo, it appears to be of precisely the same class as the other hero-myths I have collected in this volume.

And his keen eyes scanned every lineament of her face and mould.

They saw rough lineaments, seamed and hardened by exposure to the elements; but of course the face was that of an utter stranger to Max.

Releasing herself from his convulsed grasp, for just then the young man felt intensely the violence of severing those early ties which, in his case, had perhaps something of wild romance from their secret nature, she parted the curls on his ample brow, and stood gazing long at his face, studying each lineament to its minutest shade.

But her to Phronis Eusebeia bore, She whom her mother Dicé sent to earth; What marvel then if thus their features wore Resemblant lineaments of kindred birth? Dicé being child of Him who rules above, VALOUR his earth-born son; so both derived from Jove.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  lineaments