limned

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The characters are closely studied and clearly limned, and they are created by one who knows human nature.... It would be hard to find its superior for all around excellence.... No one who reads it will regret it or forget it."

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  • Something suddenly snapped into focus as she stared over to the left, at the neon-limned bar and the stools spaced in front of it. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
  • For a moment he was still, his face half-limned by golden light in a tableau as subtly magisterial as a campaign photograph. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • Copyright (c) 2008 Matthew Johnson Back to Table of Contents Poetry: CHILDREN by P M F Johnson Every dusty village has its roadway out, and not one blue-limned talisman that's hung on twine inside the door for health, protection or abundance can prevent the exodus of blood, the empty chair pushed to the wall, the dog's small, potent sighs. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • “No,” he said, rubbing his palm down the red-limned curve of her shoulder and arm. —  AWinterHaunting
  • He raised his hand, touching the fresh-limned lines of Alcuin's marque. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
 

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