catch a likeness
Example Sentences
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Naturally, it is said that if there is little representation and less saltimbancery in primitive art, that is because the primitives were unable to catch a likeness or cut intellectual capers.
From Art by Clive Bell
V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture†; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
He could catch a likeness in a moment.
From Where the Path Breaks by Charles de Créspigny
It isn't everybody who can catch a likeness.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
We expect to catch a likeness of our hairy visitor, even if the trap fails to work, and hold him a prisoner.
From Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol by Alan Douglas
