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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pourtray .
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Examples
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In how despicable a view he had pourtrayed the character of a coquette.
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Ardashir rejoined, By Allah, O Minister, I have seen the whole dream pourtrayed in painting, as I had eyed it with mine own eyes; but I found therein a circumstance which was hidden from the
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Her strong sense was pourtrayed in every action of her life, and in every word she uttered.
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We have brought her thus up to the present time when she was mistress of Clavering Park, in the midst of which Mr. Pinckney, the celebrated painter, pourtrayed her with her little boy by her side.
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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion
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So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
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So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion
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The soft melancholy impressed upon their countenances, pourtrayed the situation of their minds, and excited in Julia a very interesting mixture of pity and esteem.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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But this cannot be supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her life, she being pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as
The Vampyre 2004
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