limned

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Limned with dark hues, his models’ bodies are thrillingly aglow.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

Builded of marble, lofty, turretted, It looms beneath the moonlight o'er the trees Like some etherial castle in the skies, Limned in white alabaster, glistening, grand, Unreal, weird, not made by mortal hands.

From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by Dawson, George Francis

Always I shall be Limned on the darkness like a shaft of light That glimmers and is gone.

From Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Teasdale, Sara

Limned against that scene, she gave it life—wild, sweet, young life—the poignant meaning of which haunted yet eluded him.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane

A sort of fancy sketches, Limned on the mind's retina, with a grace More subtle than the wakeful artist catches, And tinted with a more ethereal trace.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various