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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of depicture.

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Examples

  • His figure, tall and thin, was well adapted to the character he represented, and his mask, which depictured a lean and haggard face, worn with care, yet fiery with crazy passions, exhibited, with propriety the most striking, the knight of the doleful countenance.

    Cecilia 2008

  • They had only a single scene for the whole performance, which depictured a camp, and which here served for a street,

    Camilla 2008

  • She paused a moment, before she emerged from the shade, to gaze upon the happy group before her — on the complacency and ease of healthy age, depictured on the countenance of La Voisin; the maternal tenderness of Agnes, as she looked upon her children, and the innocency of infantine pleasures, reflected in their smiles.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • The astonishment and anguish depictured on her countenance increased the apprehensions of this unfortunate father, and he renewed his question.

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

  • Julia now for the first time distinguished the unhappy lover of Cornelia, on whose features was depictured the anguish of his heart, and who hung pale and silent over the bier.

    A Sicilian Romance 2004

  • I will here subjoin a little poem, so strongly expressive of my abhorrence of despotism and falsehood, that I fear lest it never again may be depictured so vividly.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • “Apotheosis of Homer” is depictured, and not feel how much of pleasing association, how much that appeals most forcibly and most distinctly to our minds, is lost by the admittance of any theory but our old tradition?

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

  • “Apotheosis of Homer” [36] is depictured, and not feel how much of pleasing association, how much that appeals most forcibly and most distinctly to our minds, is lost by the admittance of any theory but our old tradition?

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • Pity and surprise were strongly depictured in your Mother's countenance, during the whole of my narration, but I am sorry to say, that to the eternal reproach of her sensibility, the latter infinitely predominated.

    Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

  • American Forest, or piece of Creation, which this Emerson loves and wonders at, well Emersonized, depictured by Emerson, filled with the life of Emerson, and cast forth from him then to live by itself.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

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