A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.
1 To this autumnal limning , the following spring picture may be a fitting accompaniment:-
2 Finally, a horned moon began to climb above the horizon, limning it with light.
3 Hilarius crimsoned, he was weary of limning ever with blue and gold, he faltered.
4 In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert.
5 New-Sirius and his Companion, with light limning their human shapes, trudged across the green ground.
6 It was almost as though something tangible were limning the man's soul upon his face.
7 She was pointing up ahead, preparatory fire already glowing in her palms and limning her fingers.
8 Lloyd's skin was stretched tightly across his face, limning every curve and angle of the skull beneath.
9 How could it be otherwise after the limning of such a scene as that described in Henry IV?
10 By limning Mr. Briggs, his ways
11 I pictured him moving above me, the gold light limning his body, but leaving his face in shadow.
12 How the imagination fills up this outline limning by her friend, and, if truth must be told, admirer!
13 The particles slowly drifted toward the water just offshore, falling into a pattern and limning the shape she'd know anywhere.
14 One fact may be set down, as limning some true figure of him on the landscape of those years in that peculiar country.
15 And over the hill to the north, even Waggit's poor eyes could see that campfires glowed, limning the hills and trees with light.
16 Diana furnishes a text for a dissertation on Meredith's limning of the sex, and of his conception of the mental relation of the sexes.
Other examples for "limning"
Grammar, pronunciation and more