| 单词 | limn |
| 例句 | The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Now the rising moon had limned them in white and silver. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She lay nude atop the featherbed, the soft curves of her young body limned in the faint glow from the hearth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon’s crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So here, in limning her portrait, must I paint her as she was, a girl of little more than my own age now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The jagged horizon was limned with a coronalike glow that flickered and pulsed before my eyes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The firelight of the torches makes long shadows and limns everything in scarlet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But still we could see the city before us, though it was limned only by glances of light through windows, guttering signal fires, a glimmer of ovens. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that The Casual Vacancy is not only disappointing - it's dull. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z Most impressive is “Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD,” which limns the artist’s youth primarily through scraps of video discovered online. Mark Leckey Captures the Exuberance of Pre-‘Brexit’ Britain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z I’m a longtime admirer of Blake’s ability to limn fully formed personas with a few scratches — surely no one could capture the wry malevolence of Dahl’s stories as well. Beatrix Potter died 73 years ago. Now she has a new book. What to make of it? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The other pieces were coarser: the Carnival overture jolly and lusty; the Symphonie fantastique broadly limned, rhetorically detailed and lasting a very long time. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z "Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing — it's dull." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z The miniseries is a journey through some of the most achingly profound music ever conceived, music in which Schubert limns a universe of emotional states. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The documentary limns the unconventional life of the American heiress who broke with class conventions to amass an unprecedented art collection of modern works. A portrait of unconventional modern art maven Peggy Guggenheim 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Once again, he limns a dog-eat-dog world in which people behave like animals, scratching and clawing their way up the greasy social pole. Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z The growling, sighing motif from instruments playing in the lowest registers ably limns the drama’s grim close. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z And when the sun finally does burst forth to limn the frieze of jagged, snow-capped peaks behind the forested foothills, it is, indeed, like being present at creation. In Far-Flung Myanmar, a Land of Contradictions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Its punk was always the sort inflected with ska and, in its earliest years, it certainly limned the edges of good taste. Critic’s Notebook: Green Day and No Doubt Have New Albums 2012-09-25T22:10:16Z This adrenalin-stoking series is addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes — and for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with their cars. Furious 6: Faster, Crazycars! Thrill Thrill! 2013-05-20T16:47:36Z The painter depicted himself as a small, dapper figure, in the lower margin of the picture, looking out at the viewer, not at the landscape he is supposedly limning. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Stripped of context, these items limn a specific sort of masculinity: not quite rugged, but hoping to pull the leather over the eyes of skeptics. | Modern Anthology: Manly, or Close 2010-11-24T19:06:00Z In several instances he limned jaunty, major-key themes with ghostly wisps of discord, reinforcing the omnipresent turmoil. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z My desire to orient the reader at all is itself a narrative choice, and one that not all writers who’ve attempted to limn the psychedelic experience regard as fair play. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Next to the Bouché is another little-known gem, from around 1924: Marguerite Zorach’s delicately limned three-quarters portrait of the poet Marianne Moore, looking starched and ascetic, with long and languid hands. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z The movie limns the power dynamics of the household, as those around Drina express their entitlement and seek an exit from the inescapable. ‘The Maid’s Room,’ Directed by Michael Walker 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Her songs limn the erotics of danger and also the pains of disappointment, drawing equal strength from both. Music Review: Fiona Apple at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2012-03-25T22:04:58Z This sweeping debut novel limns the exile and return of a Cuban-American family. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The text is matched by vivid, loosely painted watercolors and the animals, limned in brisk black brush lines, exude charm. When First We Practice to Deceive 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that “The Casual Vacancy” is not only disappointing — it’s dull. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Lengel only intermittently uses his copious knowledge of Washington to sort the probable from the possible and to limn the man beneath the accretions of myth. Books of The Times: How George Washington, So Help Him God, Acquired His Many Myths 2011-03-21T22:05:02Z Mr. Scheib, an associate professor of theater arts at M.I.T. whose stage work limns space travel and parallel worlds, wonders if theater’s classical origins have inhibited such exploration. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z By far the strongest writing comes when Cline limns the nearly exquisite boredom and anticipation of early adolescence. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Also stuffed not inelegantly between the microcosmic doings are several larger incidents that limn the bloody and brutal history of the two centuries, including South American totalitarianism, European pogroms and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Even Jesus, an almost constant presence, is limned modestly. Music Review: ‘Collected Stories’ Series Continues at Zankel Hall 2014-04-25T20:41:35Z Dendy has a sharp wit, which frequently emerges from the characters he creates, indelibly limned. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Whether writing about a brief recipe pamphlet or a dense guide to household management, Tipton-Martin gives each book a generous page or more of comment, limning the biographies of the authors and celebrating their accomplishments. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z It is here that he first limns the almost heavenly beauty of fly-fishing and Paul’s nearly godlike gift for it. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Ann Craven’s paintings of the moon, limned with spiraling strokes of a wide brush, hang in a central corridor. Art Review: ?The Spirit Level,? Group Show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelsea 2012-04-12T21:12:02Z Airy, soft-spoken ruminations are limned with ominous clouds, wrong-note pangs and themes abruptly cut short; in the finale Mr. Rogerson deftly evokes flickering fireflies and children scampering to catch them. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-03-13T21:27:35Z These moments limn vulnerability without ever detaching it from performance — Will cries about the challenges in his childhood home, and his onlookers, including his therapist, nod along. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z With the addition of two crescents for eyes, they limn a portrait of a sad President George W. Bush. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z In white, the words “Pleasure,” “Knowledge,” “Clarity” and “Empathy” speak to new powers of access and circulation, while the dark side is limned in red — “Ignorance,” “Hubris,” “Murder” and “Spam.” Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Every eloquent expanse of empty wall is limned by a trill of thin stripes defining doorjambs, drawn curtains and window frames. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Barker is remarkably magnetic, limning Charlie’s unease and yearning in a performance that allows him to be funny and sympathetic but never pitiful. Review: In ‘Agnes,’ Familial Ties Bound So Tightly They Fray 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The Fifth, for trombone, limns the instrument’s capacity for robust humor with melancholy undercurrents; Chris McIntyre gave full measure to both in a poignant interpretation. Music Review: Celebrating New Music, Just Off the Beaten Path 2010-12-02T22:12:00Z Some of these quiet episodes are quite lovely, especially those limned at the edges with mourning. Black Lives Drawn and Stories of Struggle Told Through Comics 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Capote’s sensitive writing limns this with joy and no small amount of loneliness. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In a guest post today she tells another part of her tale, about the love and loss of another possession that limns the line between want and need in America — the family car. Motherlode Blog: Losing the Family Car 2011-10-04T19:05:02Z It's a smashing pilot, the performances limned by beach grass, dunes and the clear light of Montauk summer. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z As such, the music of “Soundwalk” feels limned from a blend of intention and intuition. Perspective | ‘Soundwalk’ turns Central Park into an intoxicating musical adventure 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z A winner at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the film features intense conflict and also a full-blown musical number, staged by the corporation, limning the virtues of efficiency. The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and More in August 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z To hear a superb rising artist in the role, 24 hours after hearing Ms. Graham limn the stages of a woman’s life, was a poignant juxtaposition, but also a lovely one. Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z This would surely reveal something about slavery in New York, even if limning its brutal nature might seem crude. Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center: A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life 2010-02-25T22:31:00Z “She used beautiful words to limn grief and loss,” Professor Bell said in her post on the Barnard site. Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The show’s most sustained moment is a thrilling suite of progressively liberated views of mountains, fields and gardens painted directly from nature, between spring and September 1907, and two thickly limned views back in Vienna. Richard Gerstl, Speeding Through Life, With Sparks 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z With quick strokes of a lithographic crayon, Goya limns a head and a pair of stockinged feet that poke out from a tacked-up bundle of cloth. Art Review: Spanish Draftsmanship That Leaps Off the Page 2010-10-14T21:52:00Z Like much of Pittman’s work, they limn the weird and wonderful within an aesthetic of graphic overload. What to see in L.A. galleries: An ode to a black sci-fi trailblazer and Lari Pittman 'Mood Books' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Written for a small orchestra of limited strings and single woodwinds, horn and trumpet, the piece is a vivid series of fantasy landscapes limned with canny economy. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Akhtar is a realist, not a sentimentalist, and he is not prone to oversimplification in limning the differences between strands of American influence and strands of Pakistani Muslim response. Review | ‘Invisible Hand’ a taut political thriller worthy of ‘Homeland’ watchers 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z His figures are pinched and elongated, like Mannerist cartoons, and often limned with thick, confident outlines. What to See in Art Galleries Right Now 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The best detective novels are those that go beyond the limitations of genre and a specific story to limn the broader society in which they take place. Books Of The Times: Noir in Sunny Mexico, Mart?n Solares?s ?Black Minutes? 2010-05-31T23:37:00Z Shot through with imaginatively limned details, the piece proved worthy of resurrection on more than just contextual grounds. Music Review: American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Hungary Torn’ 2013-05-03T22:12:20Z “Gosford Park,” like “The Remains of the Day” and “Atonement,” limned the grandeur of a fading aristocracy with glints of delusion and corruption. Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z The chile sauce is house-made, too, as is the tianmianjiang limned with a proprietary blend of 13 spices, most pronounced among them cinnamon and star anise. Finding the Joys of Jianbing Across New York 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Telgemeier is not, in a book aimed at third to eighth graders, out to solve the mystery of this rise or limn its sociological roots. More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Occasionally a more human presence is limned, intimating an elaborately costumed Mardi Gras celebrant. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It was a follow-up to last year's documentary, whose makers limned the courtships and attended the weddings of 50 couples, and now return to see how they have fared. Last night's TV 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z Women are limned based upon a handful of hollow adjectives. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z His songs limn classic Los Angeles gangster rap, but also that city’s kinetically inventive progressive independent scene of the early-to-mid-1990s. Review: Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Leads to Joy and Jabs on New Album 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z And the sorts of things he limned along that Brentwood hillside are rampantly evident in the uncanny colors and combinations of colors in this possibly final project. Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Its members have included a wide spectrum of people whose life stories limn the Horatio Alger credo, although they have trended conservative. Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Haring limned his oval head, the topknot above a receding hairline, a pair of prominent ears and eyes staring out from behind black-rimmed eyeglasses. Review: Keith Haring's art might not be for everybody, but he is 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Here, the music that shapes the speech of Smith’s interview subjects is refined and elevated through Roumain’s richly limned and emotionally attentive score. Perspective | Anna Deavere Smith takes a fresh step with first opera, ‘The Walkers’ 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z As much as Rockwell astutely limns how lives are shaped by forces out of their control, she’s no fatalist: She gives Inez and Terry their happy ending, as hard-won and ambiguous as it is. Review | ‘A Thousand and One’: A film worth not just seeing — but celebrating 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, “The Son” is so ham-handed, so hysterically pitched and manufactured, that’s it’s difficult to believe it emanated from the same hand that brought such skill to limning the shifting cognitive realities in “The Father.” Review | ‘The Son’ will make you squirm, for all the wrong reasons 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z All these flat shapes are limned by dark lines — the reverse of the delicate nimbus of light surrounding them in the original. Perspective | The moon and its lovely lies There are images in “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision” of curtain hems limned in light, a lamp hanging in otherwise empty space, the edge of a window frame, a horizon line of sofa cushions, distant trees. For artist Uta Barth, learning to photograph is a way of learning to see 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The novel, then, limns the cumulative nature of grief, how it accretes, week by week, month by month, the long goodbye. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Flight,’ Christmas is a nightmare 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z That something is more interior, more chaotic and in many ways more disturbing, and it’s exquisitely limned by Field, who doles out information with tensely judicious restraint. Review | ‘Tár’: A seductive deep dive into a woman’s unraveling psyche 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Cox coaxed a marvelous stereo glow from the strings throughout, and Grimaud moved freely between hard-hammered accents and exquisitely limned lightness. Review | Two rising stars light up the National Symphony Orchestra 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z For so many years, the city’s name has been shorthand for civil war, for lives limned by tear gas and concertina wire, for protests and bombings and gunfire. 'Belfast' isn't my favorite movie in the Oscar race. But it gave me the most hope 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z One wishes he had limned that division with a sharper pen. Review | How the Revolutionary War created a nation — and divided its citizens 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “Peanuts,” as Schulz himself expressed, and many commentators have observed, limns a cruel world; the artist’s alter ego, Charlie Brown, is a serial loser. The first 'Peanuts' special in a decade drops today. We compare it to the classics 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork. Review: The L.A. Master Chorale is back with Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z It "may not demand universal political participation, but it cannot survive the people's wholesale ignorance of the forces shaping their lives and limning their future." Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Admittedly, there’s a bit of that latter energy here, and the relationship dynamic of these two characters is subtly limned by Hart and Horowitz’s sensitive screenplay, as well as by Brosnahan and Kene’s underplayed performances. Review | ‘I’m Your Woman’ re-centers thief-on-the-lam story to focus on the fugitive’s wife 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The poster was more precisely limned by the artist Rusty Zimmerman, who also did two previous pieces in Mr. Cuomo’s emerging triptych; he called the experience of working with the governor “an adventure.” Cuomo’s 2020 Vision: Turbulent Waters and So Many Octopuses 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Each speaks unto the other with a total comprehension that seems, at least to me, resoundingly fraudulent the more exquisite the detail with which it’s limned. I created a character called Will then set him running | Will Self 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Artists, too, are increasingly revisiting and limning history, giving voice to lives that always existed but were rarely heard. T’s Holiday Issue: Past Perfect 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The choreographer’s characteristic mix of fluid movement and sudden change of direction for this limb or that, effortless lifts that suggest flight, limn the bigger gestures of the music. Review: Thomas Adès’ spectacular ‘Inferno’ gets the Wayne McGregor and Tacita Dean touch 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z He limned a post-Trump American vision that drew waves of applause. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Pinker then limns Gladwell as a “minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacular failures.” Steven Pinker's fake enlightenment: His book is full of misleading claims and false assertions 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Savage limnings of artists or craftspeople who have the temerity to offer their goods or services for profit or appreciation offers a limited horizon for a journalist even in our age of casual cruelty. Best of Journalism 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z This is a big and complicated book, but it’s a dazzling work of reportage, and Coll’s gift for limning character lightens the load. Favorite nonfiction from 2018, from Princess Margaret to a Silicon Valley scammer 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z True enough, the republic thus limned by Emma Lazarus in “The New Colossus,” her poem for the Statue of Liberty, needed those exiles for its labor market. Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In the handful of years following his letter to Crick, Woese developed a unique methodology for this task, limning life’s history by way of the “internal fossil record” within living cells. The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z She used the word “limn” so much that it became a book reviewing cliché. Michiko Kakutani turns to Donald Trump and fake news in 'The Death of Truth' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Even something as simple as buying a crap-ton of cheese on the internet is limned for its impact on the materiality of digital space. How to hack frequent flyer miles for fun and profit 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The 2016 campaign slogan — limned in block letters and emblazoned on countless cherry-red ball caps — has been reimagined, repurposed and cheekily appropriated for countless pitches and commercial products. Never mind healthcare. President Trump has made slogans great again 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z None of it looks any more glamorous than garage junk, except it's garage junk that once left our planet and is therefore limned in a special light. Space-Exploration Artifacts Are Worth So Much Money for a Reason 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z “So were Warhol’s photo silk-screening and Lichtenstein’s limning of panels from comic strips. The goal in all cases was to fuse painting aesthetics with the semiotics of media-drenched contemporary reality.” James Rosenquist, Pop Art pioneer, dies at 83 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Erik Erikson's eight stages of an individual's psychological development aid in forming an outline to which many of the insights presented in this discussion can be limned. What Does It Take to Climb Up the Ladder? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Pimentel's inspired pairing limns how image and imagination shape our understanding of nature. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Crockatt skilfully uses letters and articles from “the liberal wing of international opinion”, non-scientists all, to limn the subtleties of the issues. History: Einstein the statesman : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He is also eloquent on the hermeneutics of scientific language, limning its oblique relationship to other modes of description. When we unlock the secrets of our genes, what do we do with that knowledge? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Last fall, in a series of policy speeches, Clinton began limning distinctions with the president on national security. How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He introduced several more fragrances including "273," after the street address of his limned boutique. Giorgio boutique owner Fred Hayman, 'Mr. Rodeo Drive,' dies at 90 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Up close her skin is the honeyed brown of apple butter, limned with a film of perspiration that holds the light. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – extract 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight. Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Vinciguerra singles out for special praise White, who in Thurber’s words limned “silver and crystal sentences which have a ring — like the ring of nobody else’s sentences in the world.” A magazine with sentences like ‘nobody else’s sentences in the world’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Fast-moving, substantive debate, with the heavily briefed candidates helping the moderators and audience limn their policy differences. Democratic debate: candidates spar on terrorism, Wall Street reform, healthcare — as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt best limns the larger constitutional stakes. The EPA Deserves a Stay 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But she limns story after story, pages upon pages of the dead, son and family upon son and family. What you think about dangerous inner-city neighborhoods is wrong 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The tissue expands in all directions uniformly and becomes transparent, and suddenly the tiny structures limned in fluorescence burst into view. Expansion Microscopy Stretches Limits of Conventional Microscopes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z “No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight,” the newspaper humbly reported on Jan. 1, 1905. Live Video: New Year's Eve in Times Square 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Fast-moving, substantive debate, with the heavily briefed candidates helping the moderators and audience limn their policy differences. Democratic debate: candidates spar on terrorism, Wall Street reform, healthcare — as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z On August 5th, a report in a newspaper close to the security establishment limned the likely case against them. Why Is Iran Detaining Jason Rezaian? 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification. Is a hot dog a sandwich? An extended meditation on the nature of America 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Two of the main causes he championed—pushing for officials to disclose their assets and campaigning for the education of migrants’ children—limned the publicly stated goals of China’s leadership. China's Tennis Champ Serves Up a Problem 2014-01-29T05:50:22Z This adrenaline-stoking series is addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes — and for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with their cars. The Top 10 Best Movies of 2013 2013-12-05T08:05:25Z Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times, “the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that ‘The Casual Vacancy’ is not only disappointing — it’s dull.” Common Sense: ‘Cuckoo’s Calling’ Reveals Long Odds for New Authors 2013-08-30T16:50:14Z Despite the fact that it will almost certainly win the upcoming general election, the LDP, too, isn’t limning the popular mood, with little more than 20% support. A Nervous Japan Swings Right Ahead of Elections 2012-12-14T21:35:33Z Enthralling and deplorable by turns, this tale of hot-rodders in the sky limns a life of quick thrills. Tony Scott: Hollywood Top Gun, Yes. Unstoppable, No. 2012-08-20T16:35:35Z It climbed in sheer walls, the broken ledges limned with pines. The Fight Over Fracking in Colorado's North Fork Valley 2012-07-12T23:27:28Z The painter had no other aim than to limn a perfect group of loving people, occupied in taking down the body of Christ. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Shall we glance at a short word picture of Jeanne, limned by a contemporary? Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Newspaper reporters, paragraphers, and magazine writers have never wearied of limning her life, recounting even the smallest incidents and making of her a conspicuous figure in the literature of the Northwest. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Your genius has limned with ineffaceable lines that everlasting disease of venerable big-wigs and mouldy specialists,—disdain of the laity, respect for their fellow-members, idolatry of the past. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z We are told by Gilpin that Charles "had singular skill in limning, and was a good judge of pictures." English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The sun struck his profile and limned it plainly, and Florence uttered a low cry. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z But the heart—the heart of the good man whose hand performed these curious and laborious limnings—should stamp a precious value on the book that contained them. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z The picture of the Jew, so elaborately limned, is chiefly valuable as affording keys to so many interesting facts. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z If I may hope that I have made a study, from which you will catch a passing suggestion for future use, in the limning of your own life-portraits, it is well. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z A bank of white fog, upon which he saw his own shadow most brightly limned by the light behind him, filled the outer passage and crept by him into the room. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z The authors shrewdly limn the tension between human beings' curiosity about the exotic and their attachment to home. Skimmer's Guide: All Business is Local 2012-01-24T05:00:00Z Between a fragile, mortal man and the eternal God, when each is limned in terms of ethics, appears a deep and high agreement. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z His mentality would flash more startlingly from six feet of rugged mountaineer, and his attainments would limn themselves forth in a more impressive forcefulness. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z One moment he was limned in the glow of the flashlight, then gunfire made a blasting hell of that fourth floor. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z He hath a rare gift of limning; and has, besides, the advantage of deare Erasmus his recommendation, for whom he hath alreddie painted our likenesses, but I think he has made us very ugly. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z He limned his ideas lightly, and gave them even fuller glimpse than he had ever yet done of his ultimate hopes; and, waxing eloquent, held them spellbound at the magnitude of the far-reaching possibilities. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Crowded, airless, dim, Where toes are trod and strained eyes smart, We watch a wand of brightness limn The old heroics of the heart. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z But, as if limned on her closed lids, she saw the two hands again, her own like a lanceolate leaf, lying within that great masculine engine of his. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The one is delicate and exquisite limning; the other, gross daubing:—the one faithfully represents; the other monstrously caricatures. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The three men led two competing teams of astronomers who were trying to use the exploding stars known as Type 1a supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to limn the expansion of the universe. Nobel in Physics Goes to Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess 2011-10-07T05:44:11Z It was limned in lines and letters of fire, and they cried to her to follow, follow, follow. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z She must pant, not paint; live, not limn. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z She was a beautiful and elegant woman; her likeness, limned by her own hand, is to be seen in Hampton Court. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z In other weeks, she combined Shel Silverstein and Habakkuk, Thomas Merton and Nikki Giovanni, all by way of limning such concepts as belief, gratitude, courage, choices. On Religion: For Psychiatric Patients, Faith, Hope and a Writing Workshop 2011-08-27T00:56:29Z He became silent, and stood with wide intent eyes, as if he saw that far distant past limned upon the air. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Sometimes in the great house there may be seen the counterfeit presentment of such a retainer limned fifty years ago, with dog and gun, and characteristic background of trees. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z We were not far removed from that period when young ladies employed their leisure by limning lachrymose females weeping over urns. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z Other men, including Sir Joshua, painted the auburn hair, the perfect mouth, the flower-like complexion, the bewitching eyes, and the infinite phases of expression; but Romney limned her with the insight of a lover. Romney 2011-08-02T02:00:24.233Z A manifesto, of sorts, that limns the crucial contribution of startups to our economic health—chiefly as our most prolific creators of jobs. Notable Features Through the Years 2011-08-01T16:05:00Z While he was limning Islam through the contest, the organizers and participants were expressing their attitudes toward the West to the documentary’s creative team. On Religion: A War-Hardened Filmmaker Delves Into Islam 2011-07-30T00:30:58Z I was also disappointed not to find the "limned effigy," as she would call it, of my dear Margaret of Newcastle. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z It ran along the wires, limning each stay luridly. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Thou art limn and debonair, and a very pretty boy, but come not here, because in thy face I see other things for thee. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The full light through the large windows limned his fine, aristocratic profile and his gaunt, tall form. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Perhaps to see shapes of light, aerial limning, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But his captors, with ready rifles, stood in close range around him, and behind him burned the log, its murky smoke and lapping blaze limning weirdly the beast's shaggy bulk, against the white forest. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z There, 'tis finished: And—on the whole—'twere well I had not limned it! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.440Z As the mist cleared, strange new valuations loomed, and she thought of lines that limned his portrait: "Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game." A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z She had gone on up to the crest of the orchard, and stood clearly limned against the sky, her hands thrust into the pockets of her sweater. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Long usage had made them almost a necessity to her skin; but the same had taught her skill in their limning. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Half an hour later, when I was returning to my tent, the whole east was glowing gorgeously and every smallest detail of the landscape was limned in vivid light. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z By and large, these pieces don’t pierce the dark heart of Corporate America, or limn its existential dilemmas. Off the Shelf: Workplace Fiction That?s True to Life 2011-04-16T15:56:06Z Then with a hurried touch, the grim, ghastly device is limned upon him, and he is taken up to the pole as the other. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Tell me not that I am painting a picture, limning the creature of a distorted fancy. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Or, perhaps, mothering each of its kind, had, with painstaking care, here limned a deceiving screen like the play of sunlight or moonlight through leaves on the dark limb of a tree. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z How to descant upon charms and graces he sees limned in beauty before his eyes? Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Corsican life and topography is limned, however, with a fidelity which has too often been lacking in Dumas’ description of foreign parts. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z In an art review on Friday’s paper, our colleague Roberta Smith sizes up the photography of J. Henry Fair, who limns the environmental degradation caused by factories, power plants, coal mining and oil companies. Green: Toxic Disasters as Abstract Effluvia 2011-01-14T21:32:14Z Charter reflected upon the man's eyes, which had the startling look of having penetrated beyond the formality of Death—into shadows where inquisition-hells were limned. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Under the full light, which the boy had switched on as he went out, her face and figure were sharply limned. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z So Dr. Sandage, a fresh Ph.D. at 27, inherited the job of limning the fate of the universe. Allan Sandage, Astronomer, Dies at 84; Charted Cosmos?s Age and Expansion 2010-11-18T07:20:00Z His Fancy Farm speech limned the more popular libertarian talking points: the tax code is 16,000 pages long; the federal regulatory code is 79,000 pages long. The Kentucky Test: Is Rand Paul's Brew Too Strong? 2010-08-12T08:00:00Z Ask a Question » Send Us Your Photos The New York Heat Wave We're looking for photos that explore depict, or otherwise limn the theme of it being wicked wicked hot out. New Rules Worry Community Garden Advocates 2010-07-06T21:21:00Z And then they looked up to the portrait gazing down at them from the chimneypiece, seeming almost to smile sadly upon them as they watched the skilful limning of the beloved features. By Birth a Lady He limned the project fully, but declared with scorn that it needed a man of courage to carry it out, and there was not one such in his court. The Great Mogul At first, while distance intervenes, the city, softly limned against the azure sky, seems like some phantom mirage; but soon the picture, rapidly growing in distinctness, becomes clear in detail. The Story of Malta The other nights of dalliance which he had known returned, limned upon his conscience in lines of burning fire. The Man from Jericho The pencil of Callot, of Rembrandt, or of Goya is requisite to limn the strange, hideous, and fantastical appearance of this multitude. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 She knew it so well that she limned it in her forehead as faithfully as had the Chinese sabre in his. The Way of the Gods Higher, to the very ceiling, the walls, as well as the columns, were gay with graven and limned images with the symbols of the gods of both �gypts. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity Far away to the northward, the conical outline of grand old Mount Ætna, king of volcanoes, was faintly limned upon the sky which hung over the Sicilian coast. The Story of Malta He thought also that Bryant and Whittier hardly seemed happy in these belated revisions, and mentioned especially Bryant’s “Water-Fowl,” “As darkly limned upon the ethereal sky,” where Longfellow preferred the original reading “painted on.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beautiful as any Welsh hills are the Connemara Peaks, faintly limned against the forget-me-not Irish sky. Lafcadio Hearn Slowly the cold gray morning fills the chamber, and the sun,— "Eternal painter, now begins to rise, And limn the heavens in vermilion dyes." Faith and Unfaith But now, I knew that all his art had but limned some of the tints of her sunshot hair and traced a few points of her beauty. A Top-Floor Idyl The limning of years could not be effaced by the desecrating power of mortified vanity. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. A cleft in the bank to his right held a small hole, dimly limned by a wisp of starlight. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Somehow the arches and curves of its branches seemed to limn a pattern so dreadful that his heart beat faster as he gazed upon it. The Tree of Life Not a fragment of the old glazing remained, and neither arms, badge, nor device, was to be found anywhere on the building, sculptured or limned. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West These were said to be drawn from well-known Edinburgh rou�s of the time, and certainly the various types are limned and contrasted with a masterly hand. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series Within the radiant circle was limned a strange picture. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam Her chariot of a snail's fine shell, Which for the colors did excel,— The fair Queen Mab becoming well, So lively was the limning; The seat the soft wool of the bee. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The rolling hills were sparsely timbered, against an empty north sky a jumble of saw-toothed peaks were limned like carvings, and everywhere was the same unending hush of winter. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Dworn caught one faint glimpse of a winged shape against the sky, limned by the flashes that stabbed from it as it leveled out of its terrific dive. World of the Drone The dark curve of Titan's bulk was limned against thin white fire that streamed outward toward the stars like comet's hair. Big Pill I shall be a Painter limning Pictures that shall never fade; Round the scenes I have portrayed Shall be gathered gazing throngs: Mine shall be a Titian’s palette! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 The portrait of her, limned by the astute Bodoeri, came back to his mind's eye. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Checkers A Hard-luck Story How we transpose and dislocate while we limn in aerial colours! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) His strong, splendidly molded face, massive and dignified, cast in lines that would have appealed to a sculptor who wished to limn the features of a patriarch of old, wore an aspect of settled calm. The Silent Barrier For a moment I half doubted that I had ever seen it in the more definitely limned form—but then I thought of the legends. The Shunned House Full and rosy was her face, Like the faces limned by Greuze; And from out her heart-shaped mouth Flashed the splendour of her teeth! Atta Troll Here, too, he limns the scenes of his comedy-tragedy, and depicts the changing fashions of the time. Home Life of Great Authors Imagination, who limns in air, has none of those difficulties to contend with that always beset, and often baffle, artists in oils or waters. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) She was even more attractive than usual, in a house dress of light color, her arms bare to the elbows, and her pale, expressive face limned against the black background of the night. Mystery Ranch The overhead light shimmered off her hair and limned her figure with shadows. Industrial Revolution The picture limned by the desperado was as plain to him as though it had been done in fire. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist But to the limning of that sketch all the past of Portugal was necessary, though then it emerged for the first time from the Unconscious to the Conscious. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe What kind of painter could these clear lines limn? Needlework As Art The flashlight limned a ghastly, obscenely fat body and a long tapering tail. The Fifth-Dimension Tube But now and again he stopped to look over at the outline of Building A, limned hard against hot blazing sky. The Stowaway So limned on his brain did the scene become that after a time he could close his eyes and see it in every important detail. The Pathless Trail Then, instead of a transcendent personality in whose portrait divine and human features are distinctly limned, we have a blur. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology That was the question which seemed to dance before Philippa's tired eyes, limned in letters of flame against the black wall of doubt and difficulties which barred the way she was to take. East of the Shadows Thanks to Hazlitt's spirited memoir, based as it was on ample autobiographical notes, no personality of this group stands before us so clearly limned, and there is none more attractive. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Charmingly, possibly romantically, situated, it lies in a shallow valley with all the picturesqueness of its varied style limned against the sky in truly impressionistic fashion. The Cathedrals of Northern France From the very beginning of one's task in limning bud and blossom, we see them richer in grace and loveliness than ever before. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer In the partial darkness the little man ill discerned the figures, but divined their bearing in the relation of outlines limned against the obscure background. The Strollers That was limned upon his brain in startlingly perfect detail still––that and one other thing. Once to Every Man In the same place stood other stands, managed by Italians who looked like caricatures drawn by the same artist who limned their predecessors. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure But the words of Professor Maniel were limned on the retina of his brain in letters of fire. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 To one side he glimpsed two grotesque, bulky figures, one half of them limned glaringly against the blackness of space by the near-by planet's light. The Affair of the Brains Just as the old religious painters used to limn saints and Madonnas, let us now write works of artistic and moral fiction. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Standing thus, with the street light limning every unnatural angle of his twisted body and every queer abnormality of his huge features, he looked almost repulsive. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Mary rapidly limned the plan of the headquarters of the Purity League. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure His best effects are obtained by quiet satire conveyed in the gradual limning of his characters, and by occasional incidents of which each is allowed to give its own lesson to the reader. Australian Writers Rain and darkness made it hard for him to see it in detail, but lighted torches and candles glowing inside the windows limned its general shape. The Saracen: The Holy War With her galloped strong men whose faces limned the features of her favourite Western "lead." Sawtooth Ranch But perhaps the circumstances that she had abided more steadfastly than most by the pattern her imagination had originally limned distinguished her from her more fickle sisters. Too Old for Dolls A Novel They had long ago spurned their sister with bitterness, and his speculations as to the real object of their visit had not touched the remote horizons against which Lois was vaguely limned. Otherwise Phyllis For his face, late blue with rage, was now black with a limning of the sewer liquid. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire. The Doomsman How clear their figures were, in the sunshine, limned against the lazy yellowish sand, under the peaceful blue! Desert Dust Floods of sunshine submerged Chilhowee in liquid gold, and revealed that dainty outline limned upon the northern horizon; but over the Great Smoky mountains, clouds had gathered and a gigantic rainbow bridged the valley. . . . . . . . . Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader If Homer’s Achaian and Trojan heroes were falsely limned, not they, but Homer’s art, would suffer the injury. Old Familiar Faces Fragment by fragment, morsel by morsel, the great Figure limns itself against the shadow of the years. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Seen thus from an open boat under the lowering wings of night, there was something awe-inspiring—even to these who lived onboard them—in the stupendous fighting outlines limned against the last of the light. The Long Trick It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest. Royal Palaces and Parks of France His eyes had grown accustomed to the light, and her profile was now faintly limned in the dusk. The Madness of May In the momentary illumination details were limned sharply—the buildings, the groups of men on one side, the running figures on the other. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters We commend its graphic limnings and stirring incidents to the admiration of our readers. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 The dusk was fast closing down, but a saffron bar of light in the West still limned the dark outlines of the far-off hills. The Long Trick And he had, the aforesaid Philemon, yet other limnings of cunning craftsmanship in his closet. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country Suddenly he was aware of a face staring at him: a mere face vaguely limned on the darkness, as if a bodiless head were held before him by the hair. Drolls From Shadowland Rifle hanging loose, he swung in and out among the trees as if every obstacle were limned in daylight. The Return of Blue Pete The old face was white and limned with wrinkles, and one hand, as it rested timidly on the edge of the counter, was heavily veined and thin and swollen about the knuckles. Stubble Into Saturday Cove, all during that late afternoon, they came surging—spars and tackle limned against the on-sweeping pall of the gray fog—those wayfarers of the open main. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Every cloud that floats has all of its fleecy loveliness limned with a radiant clearness. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Nay, fairer still my rose than gilded screen, Though it be limned with perfect art, I ween.” Lilith The Legend of the First Woman There are artists in colored chalks, who limn the heads of Christ and Napoleon on the pavement, with the inscription: 'I am starving.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was standing upright on the surface of the planetoid, a shining needle in the shifting sunlight, limned against the star-filled darkness of space. A Spaceship Named McGuire The pale glimmer of the swinging lamp tossed a mild flare against the blackness and lighted two faces which were limned against that pall. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 We see it was quite inevitable that some such coarse caricature should be thus limned and transmitted to us. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 His light flashed out at the motor, riding perched on its swivel, limned against cold, hard points of light that were the stars. Tight Squeeze O her beauty burns As she were limned by lightning on the night! Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Such is a hasty limning of the personal outlines of the first journalist in Paris, the chief editor of the chief organ of the democracy in Europe, Armand Marrast, of "Le National." Edmond Dantès The thick curtain of the mist caught up the flare of the torches and reflected it upon her from the skies, and she was limned in fantastic fashion from truck to water-line. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 There are in all about a score of them; some having a plain head-board—a piece of painted plank, with letters rudely limned, recording the name and age of him or her resting underneath. The Death Shot A Story Retold He painted, too, their presumable fuel, much as I believe old preachers limned the flames of hell and their denizens. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales This was an apparition too holy to be limned in artificial light. The Dragon Painter For birds and flowers and butterflies and pictures of all the beautiful things on earth were limned by Arachne, and old tales grew alive again under her creative needle. A Book of Myths Presently he observed a shadow emerge from the yellow mist, to come within the circle of light, which, faint as it was, limned in against the nothingness beyond the form of a woman. The Lure of the Mask What cares he for worldly splendour, when in dreams he can summon up a fairy-land so gorgeous that in limning it even his own rainbow-dyed pencil fails? Olive A Novel These are skilfully limned, with scrupulous architectural accuracy and charming pictorial effect, and will give great delight to Cantabrians, old and young. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 Visions limned on rock and sand had been the more precious for their impermanence. The Dragon Painter There were no longer these telling situations to limn which spoke for themselves, and without straw, bricks are not to be made. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Within was warmth, light, and gladness; without, a cold place of shadows, limned in the grey of discontent and the black of want and desolation. The Sins of Séverac Bablon There was one only of the group who had not been limned by Miss Rothesay. Olive A Novel It is a tale of strife, limned by high lights and some shadows. Deep Furrows Nevertheless, slight though it is, the limning all through has touches of the most comic suggestiveness. Charles Dickens as a Reader From the helicopter they could see the rest of the flight limned clearly in the flash of the explosion. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 With a quick eye to all the pictorial beauties, so to speak, of Bunyan’s matchless limnings, Mr. Cheever adds a thorough knowledge and appreciation of all their high spiritual teachings. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Indeed, we can with truth say, that in our deliberate judgment, the ‘Christmas Carol’ is the most striking, the most picturesque, the most truthful, of all the limnings which have proceeded from its author’s pen. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Of course I could have been in the hole no longer than fifteen seconds, but it seemed hours, and every move is deep limned upon my memory. Winning a Cause World War Stories It is she the music limns from the very beginning of the work. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers His sketches of actors, male and female, native and foreign, are limned with an artistical hand. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 She could see now and then tall treetops limned against the starlit sky. North of Fifty-Three She went ashore, and we sailed away, 'Twas the first and the only time ever we met, But my memory limns her as lovely to-day, As she was on that day I can never forget. Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect A tree with its arms outstretching, Was limned on the distant sky, And my fancy saw a picture Such as gold can never buy. Our Profession and Other Poems Its tenderest, dream-like tone, Like one of Turner's landscapes limned on air— Has its fine perfume flown And left the memory bare? The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems With her galloped strong men whose faces limned the features of her favorite Western "lead." The Quirt When a flare, brighter than the others limned the whole prospect into a dazzling instant, the features burst into clarity with eyes glowing like madness, and lips parted in wild exaltation. A Pagan of the Hills The earliest school seems to have been made up from a gathering of artists at Toledo, who limned, carved, and gilded in the cathedral; but this school was not of long duration. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Nor are my passions limned for outward hue, For that no colours can depaint my sorrows; Delia herself, and all the world may view Best in my face where cares have tilled deep furrows. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana For the thousandth time his eyes kindled at the sight, for the thousandth time he experienced the artistic satisfaction of the connoisseur in collegiate architecture, and mentally limned the remainder of the plan. The Mayor of Warwick Between each group of figures the face of the rock was scored with mysterious signs and rudely limned weapons of war and chase. Raw Gold A Novel With rash hands I stripped false seemings from material beauty, and limned the naked divinity of Idea. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Lush white lilies line the pool Like laces limned on looking-glasses! Gentle Julia He could smell Krishna, cigarettes and booze and club and sweat, see the gold flecks in his dark irises, the red limning of his eyelids. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town The Wife of Bath is so distinctly limned that she could sit for her portrait. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country His face was so thin that the cheek and jawbones were limned distinctly against the light, producing the effect of the X-ray photograph, while the sun shone clean through his cheeks. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben On what storied fresco, limned by what worshipper of Satan, had these accursed lineaments, this lithe, seductive figure, been shown! Visionaries The captain had hung his lantern on a beam overhead, and its rays limned like a stage-setting an open space some six feet square. The Blood Ship She was stunned to see her life limned in such lines, and the truth in the drawing made it at first seem wholly true. The Mormon Prophet The picture still lives in my memory as fresh as though it had been limned but yesterday. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 These grim notes limned speakingly on everything, made it plain that a movement was in the air which could hardly be arrested. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation The command was taken up and carried along, and noiseless shapes limned briefly in the fire glow, scuttled quickly to their appointed places. Dan Merrithew I have tried to limn something, however vague, of the beauty of the land we saw through boyish eyes before the real estate agent had profaned it. The Pride of Palomar "O, Designer Infinite, must Thou then Char the wood before Thou canst limn with it?" Charred Wood The figures of the workers were limned grotesquely against the ruddy background with a startling and unreal absence of detail. The Voice of the People And what did the good man say but that which our own beloved and mourned poet has so beautifully limned in lines that shall be as immortal as his own fragrant deeds and revered memory? Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 In that blue glow the derelict took form, grim, ghostly, heaving, as a spirit picture might be thrown upon a black cloth, every detail limned in filmy perfection. Dan Merrithew Colette, as delicately and distinctly limned in the successive chapters, might have formed a figure in the fifteenth-century group, drawn by a home-inspired artist. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science The style is fluent and unforced; the description of character well limned; and the pictures of scenery forcible and felicitous. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Leaping clear of the shallows, Chancing the creaming bars, We heard the first faint cheering As the late sun limned our spars. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country There were faces, shadows, moving images and pictures, scenes of the war limned against the blackness. The Day of the Beast Then out against the glooming sky was limned the swaying form, working its way along the triatic stay hand over hand, in an effort to reach the mainmast. Dan Merrithew Clearly limned against the sky, they were like black outlines against a pink curtain. The Desert Valley Banneker started, at this ready application of his words to the problem which was already outlining itself by small, daily limnings in his mind. Success A Novel Written on the scroll of history, limned on the page of law, we find the words of the fathers, sane and helpful thought and good counsel. The Ramrodders A Novel The ship glided slowly up the Narrows; and from its deck Daren Lane saw the noble black outline of the Statue of Liberty limned against the clear gold of sunset. The Day of the Beast Her form was such as poets love to describe and painters limn; there was grace and ease in every movement; she appeared to glide rather than walk, so light was she of foot. Myths and Legends of China I was a woman born, And trod the streaming street, That ebbs and flows from Harlem's hills, Through caves and cañons limned in light, Down to the twisting sea. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil He read his screed in type with considerable satisfaction, feeling that it was an honest piece of work and that it limned a portrait of Bassett that was vivid and truthful. A Hoosier Chronicle The soft snow on the lawn gave him a surer footing and he crept after Wilton, who was carefully pursuing his way toward a house whose gables were faintly limned against the sky. A Reversible Santa Claus But gradually, as the days went by, other figures than Lane's were limned upon her fancy—vague figures of heroes, knights, soldiers. The Day of the Beast A blow comes, such as the present war, and seems to shatter the whole picture which so many hands have limned and so many eyes admired. The Unity of Civilization The only man who could have properly painted this was the enthusiastic BLAKE, who so successfully limned the ghost of a flea! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 This girl, seeking nothing for herself, refusing anything he could offer, had held up a mirror in which he saw himself limned against dancing, mocking shadows. A Hoosier Chronicle He crawled over the snow until he reached a large tree whose boughs, sharply limned against the stars, brushed the eaves of the house. A Reversible Santa Claus You have a vision limned against the mystery of the future. The Day of the Beast His face was ghastly white; haggard lines, limned by amazement and realization, were marked clearly on it. The Diamond Master Silver punchbowls set on silver tables offered refreshment to the gay throng that coquetted and danced and applauded beneath the triumphant picture of Mars limned upon the ceiling. The Story of Versailles Sometimes the clouds take the form of most airily-delicate brown crape, "hatchelled" on the sky in minute lines and limnings. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 I have before me as I write a pencil sketch, limned with considerable care, of a rather disagreeable looking young man, and beneath it is written— "D.W.A.H., by Himself." A Student in Arms Second Series May you live long, to limn and teach. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 The one I best recall has limned upon its cover in acceptable flesh tints a fair young face of flawless beauty framed in a mass of curling golden ringlets. Ma Pettengill And then, suddenly, as if it had been some apparition limned upon the air, there stood in the path the figure of a tall man. The Red Redmaynes He gazed down at the girl's dimly limned face, and his gaze seemed full of an unconquerable hopefulness. V. V.'s Eyes In his mania for acquirements that should be entirely useless he had gained some skill in illumination, or limning as he preferred to call it, always choosing the obscurer word as the obscurer arts. The Hill of Dreams In the time of Elizabeth the largest park in Warwickshire, and one of the very finest in England, was that which surrounded the castle rendered classic ground by the immortal limning of Scott—Kenilworth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 In what veil’d hymn Or mystic dance Would he that were thy Priest advance Thine earthly praise, thy glory limn? The Unknown Eros Assist me, my Muse, while I labour to limn him. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 And yet this phantom of the next age limns himself sometimes so large and plain that every feature is apprehensible, and challenges a painter. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I On comparing these instructions with those of the sixteenth century, one is struck with the emphasis they lay upon drawing and "limning." English Travellers of the Renaissance And now, above yon shadowy line That faintly limns the distant bar, Through darkening paths, with steps that shine, She comes at last, our favorite star, At Eventide. The California Birthday Book The sentence limned with precision the impression which London used to produce upon Drake. The Philanderers In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert. 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 Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 We can see the town, the station and carts on the road; and yonder three villages make harmony, sometimes more carefully limned by bursts of sunshine. Light Here are two of them, however, which have limned themselves with the distinctness of the camera obscura on the page of a chronicler of trifles. Cowper Its realism, even allowing for Rubens's unconscious exaggeration, might well have deterred the Gonzaga princess from being limned from life some twelve years later still. The Later Works of Titian And contrarily it was the same familiarity which limned his faults so clearly and perhaps exaggerated them. The Penalty The afternoon sun fell aslant the black oak parquetry where sat her Grace of Ellswold, Lady Constance and Mistress Penwick, engaged with limning and embroidery. Mistress Penwick As he slept he dreamed; a strange, vivid dream of the setting sun and a tiny horseman limned against the gold. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life Scattered through the libraries of Europe are the priceless manuscripts limned by Irish scribes. The Glories of Ireland Upon a mound of Hortensias rests the image of the Queen Hortense, and, in the far distance, like the limnings of a half-forgotten dream, are seen the towers and domes of Paris. Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era And the FORM, meanwhile, limned in the wonder of an undecipherable or at least untranslatable geometry, silently roaring, enthroned in the undiscoverable colors beyond the spectrum, swept towards them as he spoke. The Human Chord The mixture of these qualities in a personality so natural and so clearly limned renders Cellini a most precious subject for the student of Renaissance life and character. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts An oval mirror behind threw replicas of them into another mirror, receiving in exchange the reflected portrait of madame in her youth, and in the partial nudity in which innocence was limned in madame's youth. Balcony Stories Hitherto, he regarded building as the background to sculpture, or the surface on which frescoes might be limned. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti He hath a rare gift of limning; but in our likeness, which he hath painted for deare Erasmus, I think he has made us very ugly. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction What visions come, what dreams arise, What Edens youth will limn, When leaning over her whose eyes Have sweetened life for him! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The picture, limned on parchment stretched on a wooden frame, depicted a forest scene. The Tarn of Eternity Dost still think that it will soil thy brush to limn such an one as I? Gathering of Brother Hilarius I behold Anti-christ in the midst of thronging multitudes, with an aspect such as only you could limn. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Isopel Berners, hastily limned though she be, need fear comparison with no damsel that ever lent sweetness to the stage, relish to rhyme, or life to novel. Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest What dear, loved faces were limned upon that sordid clay! The Mad King His giant squid-shaped body was limned by the magma's red light. The Tarn of Eternity Hilarius crimsoned, he was weary of limning ever with blue and gold, he faltered. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The decorative painter, whose pencil runs so freely in limning these half-human processions of outlined fauns and wood-nymphs, is asked at last to paint an easel picture. Robert Louis Stevenson The invaders stood clearly limned by the searchlight, trying to pick out a target for their fire, when Madden reached for the coal pile. The Cruise of the Dry Dock "After him Horace, finding in your eyes Horace limned in lustrous wise, Would have made you melodies Fittingly to hymn your praise, Sweet Adelais." The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages The sitting sun limned the figure of a young girl sitting on a log by the path, rubbing her ankle. The Tarn of Eternity Tell me of the Monastery and the forest - stay, tell me rather of the New Jerusalem that Brother Ambrose saw and limned.’ Gathering of Brother Hilarius They caught the evanescent gleam, the passing shadow, and on unseemly canvas limned it for all time in forms of unuttered and unutterable loveliness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Power of a particular kind strongly limned itself in all her traits, and that power was not my kind of power: neither sympathy, nor congeniality, nor submission, were the emotions it awakened. Villette Already certain limnings, more or less grotesque, more or less fading and watery, have appear'd. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy In the faint moonlight that struggled through the clouds, the towers and spires of old Bannister were limned against the sky-line. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Then, by the Prior’s command, Hilarius set himself to limn a great picture for the High Altar. Gathering of Brother Hilarius He therefore induced Mr. Gilchrist to limn the rustic novelty to the greatest advantage, which was done accordingly in the first number of the 'London Magazine.' The Life of John Clare Lil’s tired, smiling face was limned with hairs that had snuck loose of her ponytail. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom She has enlisted the sunbeam in her service to limn for us, with absolute fidelity, the faces of the friends we love. The Pleasures of Life And then that other portrait was limned with equal accuracy before his eyes. The Three Clerks It was almost as though something tangible were limning the man's soul upon his face. Darkness and Dawn It was the Colonel beyond doubt, and Margaret had limned him to the life. The Yeoman Adventurer Each successive phase is limned indelibly—that's the sort of literary style I've got, if wanted—on the tablets of my memory. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel The picture limned in those sad words is mine. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles Even his shop girls, in the limning of whom he did his best work, are not really individuals; rather are they types, symbols. The Best American Humorous Short Stories Keener than ever before in his whole life, his mental pictures now limned themselves with lightning rapidity upon his brain. Darkness and Dawn Jack still stared at the earth, his profile limned in gold and the side of his face toward Prather in shadow. Over the Pass Besides, you bound us to your praise With many strong indentures By limning Mr. Briggs, his ways And countless misadventures. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 29, 1917 Alas! for man, if in his prosperous hour, Fate faintly limns the shape of happiness, Soon comes the sponge and wipes the picture out; And sad is the beginning, worse the end. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles It rose from just beyond the table so that the lower portions remained invisible, but I saw the outline limn itself upon the air, as though slowly revealed by the rising of a curtain. Three John Silence Stories All dislike and disapproval seemed to have vanished from it; he saw her only as one sees a face in a daguerreotype of long ago, or looks at features limned by a soulless etcher. A Man and His Money Duchemin could see for miles up and down the valley, a panorama wildly picturesque and limned like a rainbow. Alias the Lone Wolf She seemed to see then how he was comparing the image he had limned upon his memory with her face. The Desert of Wheat The memory of her interview with the King in his own Palace flashed across her like a scene limned in fire. Temporal Power The hand that limned this work has long ago suffered 'a sea change.' Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Now he fancied that he could distinguish the head of the reptile limned in fire and resting on the edge of the rock as he had seen it that morning. The People of the Mist How could it be otherwise after the limning of such a scene as that described in Henry IV? Inns and Taverns of Old London It now must bear aloft a hymn, The call of God proclaiming; Pictures of blood its lines shall limn, Drawn bold in letters flaming,— Its name shall be: "The Free North's Hymn!" Poems and Songs The pencil, in the hand of the Indian, is often made to limn exquisite figures, and to trace delightful landscape-work. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians She paused, naturally, for just the right flash of an instant in the arched doorway, limned against the darkness behind her, the soft glow of the indirect lighting full upon her. The Little Lady of the Big House "You have limned a frightful picture, reverend sir," said Roland Graeme; "yet I guess not whom you would charge with the purpose of effecting a change so horrible." The Abbot And all at once the secret of your dream is revealed, with the rising of many a luminous memory,—dreams of the Idyllists, flowers of old Sicilian song, fancies limned upon Pompeiian walls. Two Years in the French West Indies The set jaw relaxed; the straight limned lips weakened…. A Fool There Was By 7 A.M. a corner was reached where the ice-wall trended southward, limned on the horizon in a series of bays and headlands. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Between her figure and those of the divinities the wall was covered with hieroglyphs as fresh to-day as on that when the artist had limned them. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales As Bacon says, Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Before them Rainier lifted its majestic, snow-crowned head high into the heavens, its serrated slopes softened by a purple haze, its soaring crest limned in blazing glory by the sun. The Silver Horde Great paintings hung in the temples, and frescoes limned upon their walls or ceilings, explained better than words the doctrine of the Six States of Existence, and the dogma of future rewards and punishments. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation It was dusk, and the distant highlands were limned in silhouette against the twilight sky. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 “Deny if you can that she limned the caricature of me which was handed about the theatre, and made me and my dogs the laugh of the town for a week?” interrupted Lee. Janice Meredith It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cut for a fistula in ano. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue She made a wonderful gesture of both hands that limned in empty air the curves of her detested rival. The Eye of Zeitoon "I have seen strange sights, Mother, mighty limnings worthy of thy magic, but how know I that they are more than vapours of thine own brain cast upon yonder fire to deceive and mock us?" Ayesha, the Return of She Midway of the clearing there was a railroad grade with a telephone-pole or two limned against the sky. Rainbow's End She saw the door open and limned in a penumbra of darkness the white comely face of a woman. A Texas Ranger Like the Mole, the Yellow Moth wore no paint except a white cross limned on his breast over a clan sign indecipherable. The Hidden Children Neale saw those staring eyes fix upon his; he realized a dull, opaque blackness of horror, hideous veils let down over the windows of a soul, images of hell limned forever on a mind. The U. P. Trail Always limned in figures of fire against the black memory would be the forms of those wild and violent bandits! The Border Legion Emma forgave the insistance on a certain bluntness of the nose, in consideration of the fond limning of his honest and expressive eyes, and the 'light on his temples,' which they had noticed together. Diana of the Crossways — Complete Emma forgave the: insistance on a certain bluntness of the nose, in consideration of the fond limning of his honest and expressive eyes, and the 'light on his temples,' which they had noticed together. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 Behold the frost-work on the pane,—the wild, fantastic limnings and etchings! can there be any doubt but this subtle agent has been here? Winter Sunshine Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly limned upon the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. What the Animals Do and Say In that dim corner of the vast room her slim figure showed faintly limned against its blurred greens and greys like that of some pallid statue. The Lamp of Fate One fact may be set down, as limning some true figure of him on the landscape of those years in that peculiar country. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields Her large, limpid gray eyes smiled youthfully; on her temples, however, thin radiate wrinkles were already limned, and silver hairs glistened over her ears. Mother He was as crisp as a new dollar bill—as clean, sharp, firmly limned. The Titan Sweet were those lips as ever master painter, dreaming his dream of the very soul of woman's sweetness, saw in vision and limned upon his canvas—and asleep, nor wistful for awakening. The Metal Monster The man with a few simple strokes of the brush had limned me his portrait. Merton of the Movies But instead of the rich brown bloom and dark-eyed beauty so hauntingly limned on his memory, he saw a white, beautiful face, strained and quivering in anguish, and eyes that pierced his heart. The Man of the Forest On Mazin's upper lip two black streaks were limned, his face was fuller. Mother I have full cognizance of the place and have limned it clearly in my mind; so now there will be no difficulty in finding it. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 By Allah, O king, I limned it not, neither know I who she is; but there came to me a poor man and looked hard at me. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] She abode by the tomb a whole month; then she caused fetch painters and bade them limn her likeness and the portraiture of the king's son. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] Said the sick man, "He who painted yonder picture never could have limned it save after the likeness of some beautiful woman." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 Every detail of that scene stood clearly limned before his mind. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Even more interesting perhaps is the gallery of Roman ladies, whose portraits are limned with so fine and discriminating a touch. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 Through the waning light of the winter's afternoon, Sara could discern the outline of a house limned against the dark background of woods that crowned it. The Hermit of Far End Mine lies flat by a great hole, and yours rising against yonder bank is that of a hooded man with hollow eyes—Death himself as I should limn him! Red Eve But the canvas of my imagination, when it came to limning the Man About Town, was blank. The Four Million It gleamed, dark and oily, limning a Scots Grey who had mounted a wounded Russian on his horse, and was bringing him back prisoner from the Balaclava charge. Five Tales He painted him with all his scars, and a wonderful portrait it is—perhaps the most complete picture of a great man ever limned in words. Character And at the same time, on my inner sight, was grotesquely limned a picture of a brain pulsing savagely against the veneer of skin that covered that cleft of skull beneath the dripping sou’-wester. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Moreover," he added, "five years ago I limned yonder swan upon this very shield with my own hand. Red Eve To describe the beauty of Cliges I will limn you a portrait, the traits of which shall be very briefly told. Cliges; a romance Then he passed to his father, portly, impressive, a high liver, a generous young blood, and then to the classic Saint—Memin profile of Aunt Susannah, limned delicately against a background of faded pink. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields HOW many are the scenes he limned, With artist strokes, clear-cut and free- Our Dickens; time shall not efface Their charm, and they will ever grace The halls of memory. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets Its fiery parabola was limned against the sky toward the east. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Speechless concern was limned on his young face. Piccadilly Jim She could only see her lover, as if transfigured, limned dark against the looming red wall. The Call of the Canyon And in particular, which his good mother used to say she prized above all the rest, he had caused his own portraiture be limned over the mantlepiece by a skilful hand. Chronicles of the Canongate When I looked from the wreck to the little Nina, I could see, limned as it were in air, the Viceroy's first colony, set in Hispaniola, beside Guacanagari's town. 1492 He went to his mirror, and, gazing long—long and piercingly—at the William there limned, enacted, almost unconsciously, a little scene of parting. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Presently I noticed casually that a procession of bacchantes limned on the wall immediately below the ceiling had begun to move, traversing the room from right to left in a gay and spectacular pilgrimage. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million The whole picture is limned against the brilliant blue of the Colorado sky, and stands out sharp and clear, one vivid block of color distinctly defined against the other. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister Beneath me stretched a panorama limned in feverish greens and unhealthy yellows. Fire-Tongue There stood the son of Siegmund in such dainty grace, as he were limned on parchment by skillful master's art. The Nibelungenlied That small group of men whom I tried to limn with loving care, but sparing none of their weaknesses, was characterised by a friendly reviewer as a lot of engaging ruffians. Notes on Life and Letters |
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