catch a likeness
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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
Can a chap catch a likeness flying along a rail road? can he even see the feature?
From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It isn't everybody who can catch a likeness.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
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
He could catch a likeness in a moment.
From Where the Path Breaks by Charles de Créspigny
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