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  • The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
  • Quite as in some great racing-stable an ambitious horseman might imagine that he detected in some likely filly the signs and lineaments of the future winner of a Derby, so in Berenice Fleming, in the quiet precincts of the Brewster School, Cowperwood previsioned the central figure of a Newport lawn fete or a London drawing-room. The Titan
  • The bulky sage arose from his seat, and, approaching the young soldier, fixed on him his keen large dark eyes as if he were in the act of internally spelling and dissecting every lineament and feature. Quentin Durward
  • The influence of crustal lineaments on the distribution of igneous activity and their influence on its geochemistry are also illustrated by the location of metalliferous deposits.
  • Some magmatic activity is concentrated along basement lineaments and other volcanism appears to be related to rifting in a similar way to that of major rift valleys.
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  • On the basis of lineament interpretation of High-resolution SPOT image in complex terrain region.
  • The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do. Book Review Roundup: Lennon, Dylan, Sinatra And Marilyn Monroe
  • From this small epitome in the brain, the child is an extended copy -- _extended_ from a mathematical point, where all the members and lineaments are _intended_. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
  • Basanites were sampled from six localities within the outcrop of the Batain Nappes and define two lineaments, similar in trend to the Qalhat Fault.
  • This rules out significant increments of both strike-slip and dip-slip post-emplacement displacements on the lineament.
  • While the waters of Venice and the ruins of Rome were sunning themselves for the pleasure of the Dorrit family, and were daily being sketched out of all earthly proportion, lineament, and likeness, by travelling pencils innumerable, the firm of Doyce and Clennam hammered away in Bleeding Heart Yard, and the vigorous clink of iron upon iron was heard there through the working hours. Little Dorrit
  • his lineaments were very regular
  • Built some 4,500 years ago as way-stations to the afterlife, they are the lineaments of gratified desire. Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
  • The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
  • The light of the fire was upon it, and its every lineament was revealed distinctly. Barnaby Rudge
  • There breathes in the face a sweet air of the purest grace, with the hair gathered simply, and all the lineaments are formed to beauty and to modesty.
  • His soul revolted at the sinister and ferocious expression pervading every lineament, and lurking in every wrinkle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
  • When we stood still, he got opposite to him, and drawing his hand across and across his open mouth with a curious expression of a sense of power, and turning up his eyes, and lowering his grey eyebrows until they appeared to be shut, seemed to scan every lineament of his face. Bleak House
  • I missed it's lineament, and missed the very large No. of friends, neighbors and relatives who either left abroad or dead. Iraq: They Call This Freedom
  • Could they be identified as the same being? or, while strictly alike in shape and lineament, was the one a tenant of the earth, the other only a phantom, permitted to show itself among those of a nature in which she did not partake? Anne of Geierstein
  • a deep impression on the beholder; there must be a great force of will and withholding of resources, giving a sense of depth below depth, which we call sternness; or else there must be that purity, flowing as from an inexhaustible fountain through every lineament, which drives far off or converts all baser natures. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • Their final powerful lines reduced to lineaments around the eyes.
  • The pug's miniaturized ‘bulldog’ lineaments rendered it not just fashionable in the late eighteenth century but - at a period of war with France - patriotic.
  • There, a lesser, coniform elevation of the continuous chain, is mantled in living green; while perhaps by its side, another pains the eye with the well defined lineaments of desolation. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
  • These preglacial valleys were eroded along zones of weakness in the bedrock, and thus both the main fjords and their tributaries mirror the structural bedrock geology by following the trend of bedrock lineaments.
  • Her actions were marked with the lineaments of her character.
  • I cannot therefore believe that even the body, much less the mind, can really be changed into bestial forms and lineaments by any reason, art, or power of the demons.
  • Imagery of the Lake District has been used to analyse the lineament pattern of the region.
  • His vanity is a lineament in his character which had entirely escaped me.
  • ‘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)
  • Recognising in those fear-filled, treacherous glances the lineaments of Judas, Leonardo enticed him to the cenaculo with a gift of silver. The same man was the model for Jesus Christ and Judas
  • Gravity and magnetic data also portray the NE-SW-trending lineament outlined by the Mesozoic faults, suggesting a link between the Hardangerfjord Shear Zone and the Highland Boundary Fault.
  • Based on satellite imagery and the digital elevation model, a number of lineaments (megascopic linear features in the landscape) were identified in Sagalassos 'ancient territory. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 4
  • But all as in most exquisite pictures they vse to blaze and portraict not onely the daintie lineaments of beautye, but also rounde about it to shadow the rude thickets and craggy clifts, that by the baseness of such parts, more excellency may accrew to the principall; for oftimes we fynde ourselues, I knowe not how, singularly delighted with the shewe of such naturall rudenesse, and take great pleasure in that disorderly order. Shepheardes Calendar
  • He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. Chapter 2
  • The aeromagnetic data suggest that the lineament corresponds to a tectonic break.
  • They come at an affordable price rate and I really loved all its quality and lineaments. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 580
  • As this remark, a sort of half interrogatory, was made, Pathfinder looked behind him; and, though the most partial friend could scarcely term his sunburnt and hard features handsome, even Mabel thought his smile attractive, by its simple ingenuousness and the uprightness that beamed in every lineament of his honest countenance. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
  • Imagery of the Lake District has been used to analyse the lineament pattern of the region.
  • Here's a man who clearly knows how to achieve the lineaments of gratified desire on the faces of his women, as I think William Blake once phrased it.
  • This paper tentatively identifies two lineaments and a fault that may relate to sinistral strike-slip faulting in the pre-Paradox Formation basement beneath Upheaval Dome.
  • My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology. The Guardian World News
  • The logic of these morally obtuse but deeply sentimental preenings of high-office holders is disturbing on many levels, but principally because it dramatizes something real: liberals, long sundered from the lineaments of any majoritarian politics, have succumbed to the worship of getting and holding power for its own sake. The Feel Good Presidency
  • In places these are offset along lines that run at right angles to the magnetic lineaments, but the reasons for this remained a mystery.
  • Those idle rimes to note the odious spot and blemish that deformes the lineaments of modern poesies habiliments. Shakspere and Montaigne
  • He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile; but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • The region east of the gravity lineament has witnessed intensive magmatism and basin development since Mesozoic time.
  • While their contrarieties indicate a different external civilization, a slight acquaintance with their morals proves their similarity to their fellowmen in the lineaments of a fallen nature. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876

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