Both may be “inartistic” in the sense that the artist’s conception is wanting; but for historical human documents they outweigh all the portraits ever limned or modelled.
His English portraits might have been limned by Romney or by Gainsborough, but his American ones could have been painted only by Gilbert Stuart.
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.
You have a vision limned against the mystery of the future.
There were faces, shadows, moving images and pictures, scenes of the warlimned against the blackness.
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.
Whoever limnedthis night-piece, the lad's share in it seems to have been small.
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.
She sees her assailant now, has his portrait limnedin her mind, would know him if she met him in the street, though she does not know by what means she identified him.
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.
Thereupon the poor man came forward and kissing the ground before the king, said to him, "O king of the age, I am he who limned yonder likeness.
In the span over the High Altar he set Blessed Benedict himself with the face of Prior Stephen, and round him the angel virtues; even as one Giotto, a shepherd lad, had limned them in the Church of the Little Brothers.
IV ON Sunday my little tree was limned in white and the sparrows were craving shelter at my window from the blizzard.
The same hand that had so lately limned Paul Revere, Theodosia Burr, and the last profile of Washington himself, sketched the typical youth of 1801.
All the madness of the world is fiercely limned in an outburst of derisive rage.
The cultural history of inspired and heroic periods, cannot be limned in fugitive sketches; careful grounding is indispensable.
His unassailable supremacy springs from the versatile working of his insight and intellect, by virtue of which his pen limned with unerring precision almost every gradation of thought and emotion that animates the living stage of the world.
All these and all that els the Comick Stage With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced, By which mans life in his likest image Was limned forth, are wholly now defaced .
The pale glimmer of the swinging lamp tossed a mild flare against the blackness and lighted two faces which were limned against that pall.
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.
To thousands and thousands of playgoers, and to those who dearly love their Shakespeare, Henry Irving has illumined the superbly limned design of Shylock.
In the same inexhaustible play she was called upon, a little later on, to enact the prettily limned Mary Meredith.
History records of her that she was not only an admirable actress, but a good and charitable woman, and it is from this pleasant point of view that Charles Reade has limned her in his dainty little cabinet picture.
The picture, limned on parchment stretched on a wooden frame, depicted a forest scene.
His giant squid-shaped body was limnedby the magma's red light.
The sitting sun limned the figure of a young girl sitting on a log by the path, rubbing her ankle.
The biggest limned picture that was made of Prince Henry, being limned in a set laced ruff and gilded armour and a landskip, wherein are some soldiers and tents, in a square frame with a shutting glass over it.
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.
How to descant upon charms and graces he sees limned in beauty before his eyes?
Instead of depicting vice as something terrible or ridiculous, which might have corrected him, they have limned an idea of perfection and heroism of which man is not capable, and they exhorted him to aim at what is impossible.
Far away to the northward, the conical outline of grand old Mount AEtna, king of volcanoes, was faintly limned upon the sky which hung over the Sicilian coast.
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.
The command was taken up and carried along, and noiseless shapes limned briefly in the fire glow, scuttled quickly to their appointed places.
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.
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.
This was an apparition too holy to be limned in artificial light.
Then returning to the jungle he said to his men, "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.
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