| I should always paint children, the limner thought, looking the boy in the eye. |
| He is a superb teller of a tale, a reveller in dodgy deeds, a keen observer of the febrile, dissimulating characters of court and embassy, and a splendid limner of the great jousts and entertainments of the age. |
| Altman infers that Burbage, trained both in rhetoric and as a limner, would have relished the composite otherness of Othello. |
| On the accession of James I, in 1603, his appointment as limner to the crown was continued, but he seems to have found the atmosphere of the new court less congenial to his art. |
| The limner was never solely a miniaturist, but worked in other formats and media too. |
| It was even said that lovers were able to see their reflections in each other's eyes, but the limner had no experience of this. |
