lineaments

• His bronze lineaments, his strange golden eyes, had not changed expression Werewolf," he said What?" —  011 - Brand of the Werewolf
• Every thought of artifice--of practised effect--or of haughty pretension, fled before the childlike innocence--the sweet feminine timidity--and the more than cherub loveliness of that countenance, which yet in its lineaments was noble, whilst its expression was purely gentle and confiding. —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
• But we all readily recognize cruelty, unfairness, inhumanity, partiality, over-reaching, hard-dealing, by their ugly and familiar lineaments, and in order to know and to hate and despise them_, we do not need to sit as a Court of Errors and Appeals to revise and reverse God's Providences There are certainly great evils of civilization at this day, and many questions of humanity long adjourned and put off. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• Nelly knew full well those lineaments, with their mingled fire and gloom. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• Retaining the shape, lineaments, and motion the man had in life, it is immediately recognised upon appearing. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

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