All 3 Uses of
delineate
in
Jane Eyre
- Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory — you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye; — What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!†
Chpt 16
- This is a gentle delineation, is it not, reader?†
Chpt 29 *
- Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination, — tall, fair, blue-eyed, and with a Grecian profile.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(delineate) show the form or outline of; or determine the essential quality of