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The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia.

A Sicilian Romance 2004

Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful, or wise, or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher, or the lover could depicture.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

And I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity, and a bit regretful of the world she loved and of its blundering men, and unhappy, -- for she could never be entirely happy without Peter, -- and I feared, indignant.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

Indeed, madame, this rascal that shares equally in my least faculty is a most pitiful, ignoble rogue! and he has aforetime eked out our common livelihood by such practices as your unsullied imagination could scarcely depicture.

Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful or wise or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher or the lover could depicture.

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude 1901

Analogy does not depicture an inward struggle in his own mind, but as

Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture. 1821-1902 1860

Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic.

The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

She sat as motionless aa a statue; and Jane went on with the courage of an Apostle to depicture, in their true colours, her character and conduct.

A New England tale, and Miscellanies 1852

What language is adequate to depicture the goodness and the fortitude of that heart which dared to contend alone, against the chilling repukes of a frozen-hearted world and the strong arm of misfortune?

"The Life and Character of John Howard," Senior Speech of Richard T. Weaver, April 1846 1846

Like Nestor, who preaches about the fine fellows he remembered in his youth, Lepidus (although barely yet in his grand climacteric!) will depicture, with moving eloquence, the numerous precious volumes of far-famed collectors, which he has seen, like Macbeth's witches,

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811