Extent of limb, a broad capacious chest, heaving in agony, and prodigious muscular force, so exerted as to pourtray the excruciating torments of mind and body, all contribute to give a fearful picture of the ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was not particular as to details, but in order that he might properly pourtray his sufferings, he thought he should have some slight inkling as to what really had happened to him. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When these were done there would be fresh Snobs to pourtray. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Chapter 4 1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But the same sentiment that first led me to pourtray scenes replete with tender recollections, now bids me hurry on. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Let fancy pourtray the joyous scene of the twentieth of June, such as even now my aching heart recalls it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In writing this novel, I have rather endeavoured to pourtray passions than manners. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Congress has appointed instead of Church, Dr. Morgan of this City whose Character I will pourtray for your Satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (1963)
I wish I were at perfect Liberty, to pourtray before you, all those Characters, in their genuine Lights, and to explain to you the Course of political Changes in this Province. ❋ Unknown (1963)
This circumstance caused serious reflections in my mind, as to the situation of slaves, and caused me to contrast the condition of a white boy with mine, which the following occurrence will more vividly pourtray. ❋ Jacob D. Green (N/A)
She, however, by no means pretends to pourtray the scenery in the course of her narrative, with minute accuracy. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Author may have had to the unfortunate cause of the Stuarts, it has not, however, been her intention only to pourtray the bright ornaments of the party. ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)
The companionship of one who by his 34th year "had so much dispatched the business of life that the oldest rarely attain to that knowledge and the youngest enter not the world with more innocence," [V] might have induced Earle to pourtray more than the weaknesses of immature manhood. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
Finding, however, that although accurate in its representation of _fine_ fruit, it did not pourtray the difference, nor convey the precise idea of those qualities which constitute the superiority of the author's; and aware that such would have been obvious to every experienced gardener, the design was necessarily abandoned, trusting, that as it was merely intended for an embellishment, its deficiency will not render the work less valuable to the profession. ❋ Thomas Watkins (N/A)
At one time, I, merely in common civility, asked after her cough – immediately her long visage relaxed into a smile, and she favoured me with a particular history of that and her other infirmities, followed by an account of her pious resignation, delivered in the usual emphatic, declamatory style, which no writing can pourtray. ❋ Unknown (1931)
I desire therein to be delineated in mine owne genuine, simple and ordinary fashion, without contention, art or study; for it is myselfe I pourtray. ❋ Unknown (1909)
That what he lately learned, he cause him to set forth and pourtray the same into sundrie shapes, and then to accommodate it to as many different and severall subjects, whereby he shall perceive, whether he have yet apprehended the same, and therein enfeoffed himselfe, 11 at due times taking his instruction from the institution given by Plato. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Who could pourtray the mountains 'purple smiles -- ❋ Robert Lloyd Praeger (1909)
