To-day, perchance, the awakening impulses of an age becoming aware of its own lineaments in the prophetic image of a world convulsion, may arouse in the author an impulse to complete what was so magnificently begun.
Rolland the historian does not hesitate to borrow some of the lineaments of his heroes from the biographies of great men.
But if the time ever comes when his lineaments are fully revealed to sight, he will be found neither much greater nor much better than his generation justified.
Their fantastic forms and features, conveying a symbolic meaning which was lost on the Spaniards, seemed to their eyes only the hideous lineaments of Satan.
His countenance was distorted into hideous lineamentsof symbolical import.
Friends wished to look upon what they believed to be the lineaments of those who had long since gone to the spirit-land.
In short, every person who heard about this mystery determined to verify the wonderful tales related, by looking upon the ghostly lineaments of some person, who, they believed, inhabited another sphere.
How is it possible that human features and human lineaments essentially alike can be wrought into such heaven-wide contrast?
But harsh hands seized it; fierce goblin lineaments were impressed upon it; and all is over with him forever!
It seemed like a company of solemn worshippers fixed in devotion,--so true were the forms and lineaments to life.
Thus it was when the evil destiny of Wieland assumed the lineaments of something human.
They confronted each other with the pitiless immovability of two statues in whose marble lineaments emotions were fixed for all eternity.
Only for a moment, though; for he recognised the hideous lineaments and beady eyes of the Shoshone slave girl.
In the grim painted lineaments he recognised, to his astonishment, the countenance of War Wolf.
Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.
These two expressions seemed to alternate, and even to mingle vaguely, upon the upturned lineaments of the waiting throng--the hope of some unnamed stroke of fortune and the dread of some adverse decree.
In his own lineaments he seemed to combine all that was most comely in the lineamentsof his race.
And, as before, the jewels about which the brothers had once been so anxiously concerned were scattered as in mockery in a shower of sparkling and variegated brilliancy upon the immobile lineaments within.
Then he fell backward, without motion, the exultinglineaments settling in the gloom of death, as shadows obscure the smiling brightness of the sun.
While nature had stamped on his lineaments those distinguishing marks which characterize the race from which he sprung, she had not done it to that revolting degree to which her displeasure against that stricken people is often carried.
There was understanding in the look that met his gaze, though death was but too plainly stamped on the pallid lineaments of the wounded man.
The face was that of a man of fifty, with the lineaments rather indurated than faded by time.
Our father, Henry the Eighth, whose lineaments frown upon us from that wall, had not authority for all he did.
A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel bookes.
Here and there however were to be seen forms, unlike the rest, of stately stature, of fair proportions, wearing the divine lineaments of Grecian beauty.
No metamorphosis of divinity can change the lineaments he wore on earth.
The sculptors have dealt fairly with all, and not one has the lineaments of utter baseness.
Lady, to find in other features dim The longed for, loved, true lineamentsof thee.
These pictures exhibit not only the lineaments of the masters, but also their art.
As I gaze thereon, I find the lineaments and limbs of a Titanic man chained and nailed to the rock.
The first is physiognomy, which discovereth the disposition of the mind by the lineaments of the body.
For thelineaments of the body do disclose the disposition and inclination of the mind in general; but the motions of the countenance and parts do not only so, but do further disclose the present humour and state of the mind and will.
Expression is the effect of the conflicting static or dynamic (passive or active) state of the mind, so far as this state is revealed in the lineaments of the face.
What lineaments divine we trace Through all his figure, mien, and face!
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