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Significats de limn en anglès

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To trace the shape of.

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        Make a portrait of.

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              Ús de limn en anglès
              1
              I drew rein, and out pencil and brush to limn her for thee.
              The Cloister and the Hearth
              2
              Well did the old painters limn it as an arrow or a wind!
              The Dark Flower
              3
              To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
              Leaves of Grass
              4
              Here, had I my will, I would limn you Mary Jane herself, that parched nymph.
              A Christmas Garland
              5
              In the darkness, I couldn't see more than a limn of his face, floating over me.
              The Vital Abyss
              6
              Then, by the Prior's command, Hilarius set himself to limn a great picture for the High Altar.
              The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
              7
              I behold Anti-christ in the midst of thronging multitudes, with an aspect such as only you could limn.
              The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
              8
              Surratt leaned over the tombstone and blew a limn of white dust from one of the chiseled letters.
              Serena
              9
              So featly for to limn
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917
              10
              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
              11
              To describe the beauty of Cliges I will limn you a portrait, the traits of which shall be very briefly told.
              Cliges: A Romance
              12
              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
              13
              Overhead, stars throbbed heavy in a velvet sky and the slice of moon lent the faintest blue-green limn to the warm water.
              Antiphon
              14
              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...
              15
              She abode by the tomb a whole month; then she let fetch painters and caused them limn her portraiture and that of the king's son.
              Tales from the Arabic — Volume 01
              16
              Silhouetted, Luna was a disk of black from here except for a thin limn of white along one edge and a webwork of city lights.
              Nemesis Game
              Sobre aquest terme
              Translations for limn
              Limn a través del temps