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Meanings of limn in English
Usage of limn in English
1
I drew rein, and out pencil and brush to limn her for thee.
2
Well did the old painters limn it as an arrow or a wind!
3
To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
4
Here, had I my will, I would limn you Mary Jane herself, that parched nymph.
5
In the darkness, I couldn't see more than a limn of his face, floating over me.
6
Then, by the Prior's command, Hilarius set himself to limn a great picture for the High Altar.
7
I behold Anti-christ in the midst of thronging multitudes, with an aspect such as only you could limn.
8
Surratt leaned over the tombstone and blew a limn of white dust from one of the chiseled letters.
9
So featly for to limn
10
The pencil, in the hand of the Indian, is often made to limn exquisite figures, and to trace delightful landscape-work.
11
To describe the beauty of Cliges I will limn you a portrait, the traits of which shall be very briefly told.
12
She has enlisted the sunbeam in her service to limn for us, with absolute fidelity, the faces of the friends we love.
13
Overhead, stars throbbed heavy in a velvet sky and the slice of moon lent the faintest blue-green limn to the warm water.
14
There are artists in colored chalks, who limn the heads of Christ and Napoleon on the pavement, with the inscription: 'I am starving.'
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.
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.
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Translations for limn
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Limn through the time