lineaments

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Her Lineaments so fine that were She from the Fayrie tooke, Her Beauties and Complection cleere By nature from the Brooke.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

The most trifling Actions of a Man, in my Opinion, as well as the smallest Features and Lineaments of the Face, give a nice Observer some Notion of his Mind.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Lineaments were now observed which could never coexist with folly or associate with obdurate guilt.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

Yet sometimes, when the Sun shone very clear, there appear'd faint Lineaments of a sixth and seventh.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir