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Example sentences for "delineator"

Lexicographically close words:
delineates; delineating; delineation; delineations; delineative; delinquencies; delinquency; delinquent; delinquents; deliquescent
  1. The paper has gone to press and he is alone; a wayward talented gentleman, this Mr. Scalper, and employed by The Eclipse as a delineator of character from handwriting.

  2. The delineator is writing busily and feels that he is writing well.

  3. The delineator opens a second envelope, surveys the writing of the correspondent with a critical yet charitable eye, and writes with more complacency.

  4. The baffled delineator lets fall the string and returns to finish his task.

  5. The elegant motions and fine heads point to that Watteau who was to become soon afterwards the unsurpassable delineator of feminine coquetry.

  6. He, who passed his whole youth in the idyllic loveliness of the woods, was fitted to be the delineator of that mellow English nature.

  7. The leading characters belonged to the class which he drew best, so far as he was a delineator of character at all.

  8. He is neither moral nor immoral, but a calm and profound observer of human society and human passions, and a minute, patient, and powerful delineator of scenes and characters in the world before his eyes.

  9. In the little masterpiece, Bettine, he has, apparently with the greatest ease, accomplished one of the most difficult tasks for a delineator of character.

  10. It was a great regret to everyone that The Delineator did not put in an appearance for dinner; he pleaded headache and retired to bed early, perhaps in the hope of getting some sleep before The Instigator came to share the room.

  11. Foiled again, The Instigator collected The Delineator and My Lady, and started to walk to the northern end of the lake, where The Jehu could pick them up, when the washing, packing and harnessing allowed of an onward move.

  12. The Delineator had made out a plan which would drive any member of the R.

  13. The Delineator said that that formula, when one considered the various cookings, including the Oriental style we had lately sampled, exactly described the cause of his passing illness, from which he was now happily recovered.

  14. He is eminently a popular writer, a vivacious delineator of life and manners, even when he exhibits his versatility at the cost of some of his most attractive characteristics.

  15. Björnson first became famous as the delineator of the Norwegian peasant.

  16. Krylov was a fabulist: a dexterous delineator of animals and a delicate humourist.

  17. Menzel was a master draughtsman, Leibl an admirable delineator of character, and to name these three is to name all.

  18. Upon my word, friend Sparkle, you are an admirable delineator of Society," said Dashall.

  19. Thackeray dwells lovingly on Cruikshank's success as a delineator of children and the humours of childhood; and particularly on his inimitable illustrations to children's books.

  20. The Norwegian spring changing the earth into one carpet of moorland, broken by marshes, found its delineator in Erik Bodom.

  21. Even his sketches are often of great delicacy of colour, and the ethnographical accuracy which he also possessed has long made him the most highly valued delineator of Oriental life and a popular illustrator of works on Egypt.

  22. Chapman was too much of a scholar and a thinker to be a successful delineator of men.

  23. As a lecturer, a teller of stories, and delineator of character, he had scarcely a rival in his ability to draw and entertain vast audiences.

  24. With every qualification to ensure success, Rowlandson, as his story indicates, deliberately threw away the serious chances of life, to settle down as the delineator of the transitory impressions of the hour.

  25. As a faithful delineator of the various phases of American wood interiors, Mr. Whittredge has deservedly won a permanent place in the popular favor.

  26. Child life finds a warm friend and delineator in S.

  27. Cropsey, who, beginning life as an architect, became eventually an agreeable delineator of our autumnal scenery, and at one time executed a number of paintings remarkable for their truth and artistic beauty.

  28. It remains to the delineator of the character of Elizabeth to inquire in what manner she acquitted herself, to her country and to posterity, of the awful responsibility imposed upon her by its possession.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delineator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.