No more will he mount his car drawn by Venetian steeds, filling the course round Limna with the prancing of his trained horses. Nevermore in his father's house shall he wake the Muse that never slept beneath his lute-strings; no hand will crown the spots where rests the maiden Latona 'mid the boskage deep; nor evermore shall our virgins vie to win thy love, now thou art banished.英文原著 · 《Hippolytus》
Oh, who would paint a goldfield, And limn the picture right, As we have often seen it In early morning's light; The yellow mounds of mullock With spots of red and white, The scattered quartz that glistened Like diamonds in light; The azure line of ridges, The bush of darkest green, The little homes of calico That dotted all the scene.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
"He debated a moment, his face rigidly set, inscrutable to my glance. Then he relaxed into one of those whimsically appealing smiles that somehow are acutely eloquent of pathos. 'Serious parts-- with this low-comedy face of mine!' he responded. And my query had been answered. Yet he went on, 'No, I shall never play Hamlet. I can give a good imitation of a bad actor but, doubtless, I should give a very bad imitation of a good one. "Et vailet, Messieurs." I remarked to myself. The man with a few simple strokes of the brush had limned me his portrait.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
He went to his mirror, and, gazing long--long and piercingly--at the William there limned, enacted, almost unconsciously, a little scene of parting. The look of suffering upon the mirrored face slowly altered; in its place came one still sorrowful, but tempered with sweet indulgence. He stretched out his hand, as if he set it upon a head at about the height of his shoulder.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
She could only see her lover, as if transfigured, limned dark against the looming red wall. "That was one of Charley's queer jokes. I told you to beware of him. Flo is married, yes--and very happy. I'm unutterably happy, too--but I'm not married. Lee Stanton was the lucky bridegroom. Carley, the moment I saw you I knew you had come back to me."
End英文原著 · 《The Call of the Canyon》
They don't limn the truth of an indefinable essence.美剧 · 《Billions》