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  • There's another amazing one called 'Lineament' that uses text cut from a book line by line, then wound into balls about the size of a fist...pbs included her in a documentary a few years ago, one of the Art 21 series.

    Random thoughts Lemon Hound 2009

  • But before you call me Nostradamus, what I didn't predict was the elevation of the West Beverly Hills Lineament to the northern portion of the Newport-Inglewood fault line, at least the "inferred" extension according to Metro's "independent experts."

    John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011

  • But before you call me Nostradamus, what I didn't predict was the elevation of the West Beverly Hills Lineament to the northern portion of the Newport-Inglewood fault line, at least the "inferred" extension according to Metro's "independent experts."

    John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011

  • “I was struck with profound Veneration at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover the most consummate Virtue, the greatest Intrepidity and Firmness of Mind, the truest Love of his Country, and general Benevolence for Mankind, in every Lineament of his Countenance ....

    Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels 1946

  • Intrepidity and Firmness of Mind, the truest Love of his Country, and general Benevolence for Mankind, in every Lineament of his

    Collected Essays 1900

  • [What, Lineament is.] +_Lineamente, shalbe the certaine and constant prescribyng, conceiued in mynde: made in lines and angles: and finished with a learned minde and wyt.

    The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

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