"Lifelike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... some one whom it was possible the author might have met; but I shrank from the idea that I was capable of "taking off" people of my acquaintance, and for many reasons would have liked if the book had not been known to be mine in South Australia. There must, however, have been some lifelike presentment of my characters, or they could not have been recognised. About this time I read and appreciated Jane Austen's novels—those exquisite miniatures, which no doubt her contemporaries identified without much interest. ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence
... stories of life in a girl's college that has ever been written. It is bright, whimsical and entertaining, lifelike, ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... picture of "St. Francis Preaching to the Birds," was a little boy, he took care of his father's sheep in the fields. One day a noted painter, Cimabue, found Giotto drawing a sheep on a flat rock with colored stones. The picture of the sheep was so lifelike that the great man asked the boy, Giotto, to go with him and become an artist. He went, and one day years afterward the pope sent to Giotto for a sample of his work. Giotto sent him a big round O. It pleased the pope to find a man ...
— The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures • Lorinda Munson Bryant
... JOHNSON knew, And well that lifelike portrait drew. He is a Patron who looks down With careless eye on men who drown; But if they chance to reach the land, Encumbers them with helping hand. Ah! happy we whose artless rhyme No longer ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... set to work rearranging the little houses and figures, till he succeeded in giving quite a lifelike air to the creche, and Lady ...
— Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith
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