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Example sentences for "lineament"

Lexicographically close words:
lineages; lineal; lineall; lineally; lineam; lineaments; linear; lineas; lineau; lined
  1. His face was clouded, and pity and anxiety were in every lineament of his manly features.

  2. Treachery is written on every lineament of their black and fearsome faces.

  3. On seeing distress depicted on every lineament of her faithful Abigail's face, the younger of the two said, with a faint smile: "Poor Mathilde!

  4. She twined her arms around his neck, and gazed at him as though her longing eyes would devour every lineament of his features.

  5. I think every lineament on my face must be stereotyped on his memory.

  6. Kerr, as he signaled to her with every lineament of his enlivened face, his interest, his defiance, his uncontrollability, was not the man of her imaginary conversations.

  7. She could see no features, no lineament of this strange thing to recognize, yet instantly she knew what it must be--what she had feared and thought impossible.

  8. Deerslayer started, and turning to his friend with admiration expressed in every lineament of his face, he fairly laughed, in his silent but hearty manner, at the ingenuity and readiness of the conjecture.

  9. Roger asked aloud, with no change in any lineament of his hard, gray face.

  10. But Darrell was for once oblivious to the scene; his eyes were fastened on Kate's face, a look in them of insatiable hunger, as though he were storing up the memory of every line and lineament against the barren days to come.

  11. Look into my face, and you will see every lineament of your own mirrored there.

  12. Her composure was now only the effect of utter desperation: but so unruffled was her countenance, that not a lineament was so changed as to be calculated to engender suspicion.

  13. But to-night its every lineament filled his soul, vying with the memories of his mother in its vividness and power.

  14. Youth, health, hope spake in every lineament of his face and brightened every glance of his wide-awake eye.

  15. His features were small, delicate, and almost effeminately handsome; and in every lineament a want of decision and force of character was visible.

  16. It was one of those wonders of art that transform dead colours into seeming life, and, while giving to every lineament a faultless reproduction, heightens the charm of each.

  17. Toil and painful wounds, And long imprisonment in unwholesome dungeons, Have marr'd perhaps all trace and lineament Of what I was!

  18. Toil and painful wounds And long imprisonment in unwholesome dungeons, Have marred perhaps all trait and lineament 200 Of what I was!

  19. She gazed for an instant, ere she replied, on his youthful face, on each lineament of which his bold character was written, while his ardent spirit spoke eloquently in every look.

  20. Hitherto she hath condescended to impart her sorrows to her poor friend; but to-day she shut up her griefs in her own bosom, albeit I could read unspoken suffering in every lineament of her sweet countenance.

  21. In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development.

  22. Sometimes the face, while preserving the likeness to the peculiar face of the engineer, as I was wont to see it when he was alive, seemed to spread itself out and then contract, and every lineament of it seemed to be in convulsive motion.

  23. In the searching light every lineament was clearly portrayed, and the twitching of his mouth, and the white look that chased the bronze from his cheek, became plainly visible to the eyes of his followers.

  24. The open, generous and manly disposition of the young Lieutenant shone in every lineament of his countenance.

  25. The stream, the rocks, the hills, and trees are all commingled in chaotic grandeur, varying in lineament at each step, and defying every attempt to detect a feature of regularity.

  26. There is a spirit given to man with a capacity to know and to will, and here is a draught and lineament of God’s face which is not engraven on any sensitive creature.

  27. There is both less sin and less misery in it, for it is almost the only lineament and refreshment we get in all our miseries.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lineament" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.