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Definition of Lineless
1. having no lines [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lineless
Literary usage of Lineless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"We know, of course, that lines are not really imitative, as lineless colour may
be, but they are most valuable and convenient as a means for expressing ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"It is very deep, 354 fathoms, but the line broke in coming up, and the rest was
stolen by night, so I am lineless now. All the chronometers are dead ..."
3. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin (1903)
"It is a sufficient occupation for a windy morning, on the lineless, level mesa,
to watch the pair of them eying each other furtively, with a tolerable ..."
4. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"... on a “lineless, level floor.” It was all so beautiful and strange that we
could not accept it as real. On the chart this place was called Pearl Harbor, ..."
5. The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin (1857)
"... the unbroken twilight rests long and luridly on its high lineless forehead,
and fades away untraceably down its tiers of confused and countless stone. ..."
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