Example Sentences

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So vivid a word painter as Tomlinson acknowledges that the chance rewards which make travel worth while are seldom matters that a reader would care to hear about, for they have no substance.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

But Keats was a word painter, his treatment more sensuous than Coleridge's, and fuller of imagery.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

The old lady was mad and blamed it on the valet, who come up and had to take as sweet a roasting as you ever heard a man get from a lady word painter.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Because they lend themselves so readily to the word painter or to the artist's brush, these lurid features are played to the almost complete exclusion of others, only slightly less important.

From History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by Sweeney, William Allison

Dick was a word painter, and he drew such a picture of the game and of a "certain player" in it that a certain player blushed.

From A Boy Knight by Scott, Martin Jerome