lineament

How To Use lineament In A Sentence

• He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. Chapter 2
• ‘CAN you?’ he said again; and every lineament of his expressive countenance added the words ‘resist me?’ Master Humphrey's Clock
• Grand genealogies and family lineaments fall like granite upon the final iamb, The OLM Blog
• Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
• The town sits astride a major fault that is well exposed west and east of the town and forms an obvious east-trending lineament on the satellite imagery.
• And the girl, looking up into the peaceful old "lineaments," smiled faintly, and knew there was healing in them. Four Girls and a Compact
• There could be no doubt about the features of either; he recollected the exact expression they had worn at different passages of their conversation, and recognised in every line and lineament the Giants of the night. Master Humphrey's Clock
• lineament," and fetid conspiracies for inclusive ordinations and orientations. Second Terrace
• Beyond loomed the fortress, all its lineaments blurred, softened, qualitied like a dream by the flooding moonlight. Sir Mortimer
• He makes it according to the beauty of a man, in comely proportion, with those limbs and lineaments that are the beauty of a man, but are altogether unfit to represent the beauty of the Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)