liny

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Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look.

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He found Copley's style too "liny," harsh and emphatic in outline but felt that could be corrected by "a sight of what has been done by the great masters."

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The "liny" style of his "little way in Boston" turned out, in the end, not to be a provincial flaw.

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Time Corp., which makes 400, liny gyroscopes a month for guided missiles, is working on a plan to combine them with servomotors to control the bucking whirlybirds with a miniature autopilot.

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They are shouting from that deep irregular pool, all glass now, where, on two long, smooth, liny slides, half a dozen ragged urchins are slipping along in tottering triumph.

From Our Village by Mitford, Mary Russell