What is "lineaments"

Usage examples of "lineaments".

As I looked at his lofty forehead, still and pale as a white stone -- at his fine lineaments fixed in study -- I comprehended all at once that he would hardly make a good husband: that it would be a trying thing to be his wife.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

Why had God seen fit to shower him with that combination of lineaments and expressiveness, charm and intensity, whose sum is beauty?

She recognizes his red hair first before anything, and after that the lineaments of his face.

It was hard to read age on her face, for she did not possess the exact lineaments of a human face but something like and yet unlike, kin to him and yet utterly different.

He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious.

Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed.

A young lady, on whom all eyes were bent, and whose beauty might have served the painter for a model of Semiramis or Zenobia, more majestic than became her years, and so classically faultless as to have something cold and statue-like in its haughty lineaments, was moving through the crowd that murmured applauses as she passed.

Regarding the chief attentively, I thought his lineaments appeared familiar to me.