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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pourtray.

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Examples

  • In how despicable a view he had pourtrayed the character of a coquette.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • 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

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Her strong sense was pourtrayed in every action of her life, and in every word she uttered.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • 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.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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

  • 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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