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Unlined? Unlined what?

 
 
Reply Sun 28 Aug, 2011 12:22 am

Context:
Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly. She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was her immobile bronze face. Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics. The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races. She was self-possessed and walked with a dignity that surpassed even Mammy’s, for Mammy had acquired her dignity and Dilcey’s was in her blood.

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Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Sun 28 Aug, 2011 12:23 am
@oristarA,
The phrase means her "immobile bronze face" had no wrinkles.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 28 Aug, 2011 12:28 am
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:

The phrase means her "immobile bronze face" had no wrinkles.


Perfect!
Thank you.
fresco
 
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Reply Sun 28 Aug, 2011 03:18 am
@oristarA,
William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18
Quote:

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


You might be interested in this intentional ambiguity of facial lines and lines of poetry.

izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 28 Aug, 2011 07:19 am
@fresco,
This poem was allegedly written about Henry Wriothesley, Earl of SOUTHAMPTON.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2010/1/23/1264276375315/Nigel-Adkins-001.jpg
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