Lineaments

Examples

• Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As his lineaments soften with life, their faces and their hearts harden to him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What accuracy in all the lineaments! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There were purpose and feeling, banter and scoff, playing, mingled, on her mobile lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist will fill in the lineaments of the ideal state. Plato. The Republic.
• I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The lineaments which will get embodied in ideals based upon this new recognition will probably be akin to those of Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The philosophical systems which formulate these problems record the main lineaments and difficulties of contemporary social practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He stood looking down on the sleeping face which seemed to lie like a delicate impalpable mask over the living lineaments he had known. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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