Tenne anche lui , qualche momento , fisso nell'aspetto dell'innominato il suo sguardo penetrante , ed esercitato da lungo tempo a ritrarre dai sembianti i pensieri ; e , sotto a quel fosco e a quel turbato , parendogli di scoprire sempre più qualcosa di conforme alla speranza da lui concepita al primo annunzio d'una tal visita , tutt'animato , - oh ! - disse: - che preziosa visita è questa ! e quanto vi devo esser grato d'una sì buona risoluzione ; quantunque per me abbia un po' del rimprovero !<>
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Non sapeva piú ritrarre la mano dalla mano di lui, scostare il volto dal volto di lui, se egli la attirava troppo a sé.(Pirandello - Novelle per un anno)<>
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Egli s'aggirava tra le rovine ; e gli sembrava di aver l'obbligo di scavare , di ritrarre i cadaveri dalle macerie , i tesori di sottoterra , ma di non potere , cosí solo com'era , cosí debole , cosí incerto sul punto da incominciare .( Grazia Deledda - Canne al vento)
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* Per poco ora il dolore si ravvicinerà e urlerà allo spettacolo orrendo della chiusura del cadaverino nella cassa già pronta; poi, subito dopo il seppellimento, tornerà ad allontanarsi, a rifarsi in fretta di quel breve riavvicinamento crudele, finché non scomparirà a poco a poco nel tempo, dove di tratto in tratto soltanto la memoria, volando s'affannerà di raggiungerlo e lo scorgerà in fondo in fondo, e si ritrarrà oppressa e stanca, richiamata da un sospiro di rassegnazione... ( Pirandello - Il fu Mattia Pascal )<>
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* E io dovrei star fermo e zitto e ritrarrai nella cella del contemplator taciturno o nella camera calduccina dell' uomo assestato , che ormai lascia andare il mondo a sua posta purché non manchi la cena ? Piuttosto morire che una fine cosi ! Io devo dire quello che ho in corpo ; il mio dovere è di far sì che gli altri non dicano più certe cose , non le pensino e non le scrivano a quel modo . (G .Papini - Un uomo finito)<>
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manichino
= fantoccio snodabile che serve agli artisti come modello per ritrarre nelle varie posizioni la figura umana <>
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retrarre
= verbo trans. variante di ritrarre, che ricorre soprattutto nel linguaggio scientifico e tecnico <>
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Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placedin the gallery at Pemberley.<>
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Youthink it a faithful portrait undoubtedly.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could havelittle to fix the attention of a stranger.<>
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The spectral figures in the Dance ofDeath, the most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayedon canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick, with his hands in his pockets and his hat cockedcompletely over his left eye, was leaning against the dresser, shakinghis head from side to side, and producing a constant succession of theblandest and most benevolent smiles without being moved thereunto byany discernible cause or pretence whatsoever; old Mr. Wardle, witha highly-inflamed countenance, was grasping the hand of a strangegentleman muttering protestations of eternal friendship; Mr. Winkle,supporting himself by the eight-day clock, was feebly invokingdestruction upon the head of any member of the family who should suggestthe propriety of his retiring for the night; and Mr. Snodgrass had sunkinto a chair, with an expression of the most abject and hopeless miserythat the human mind can imagine, portrayed in every lineament of hisexpressive face.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A stout country lad opened a door at the end of the passage, and thethree friends entered a long, low-roofed room, furnished with a largenumber of high-backed leather-cushioned chairs, of fantastic shapes, andembellished with a great variety of old portraits and roughly-colouredprints of some antiquity.<>
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IN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFUL PORTRAITURE OF TWODISTINGUISHED PERSONS; AND AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF A PUBLIC BREAKFASTIN THEIR HOUSE AND GROUNDS: WHICH PUBLIC BREAKFAST LEADS TO THERECOGNITION OF AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANOTHERCHAPTERMr. Pickwick's conscience had been somewhat reproaching him for hisrecent neglect of his friends at the Peacock; and he was just on thepoint of walking forth in quest of them, on the third morning after theelection had terminated, when his faithful valet put into his hand acard, on which was engraved the following inscription:-- Mrs.<>
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He was sitting in anexcellent attitude for having his portrait taken; and here it is.<>
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Accordingly, when she had gained her bedchamber, bolted herself in, andbegan to meditate on the scene she had just witnessed, the most terrificpictures of slaughter and destruction presented themselves to herimagination; among which, a full-length portrait of Mr. Peter Magnusborne home by four men, with the embellishment of a whole barrelfulof bullets in his left side, was among the very least.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) '"So I take the privilidge of the day, Mary, my dear--as the gen'l'm'nin difficulties did, ven he valked out of a Sunday--to tell you that thefirst and only time I see you, your likeness was took on my hart in muchquicker time and brighter colours than ever a likeness was took by theprofeel macheen (wich p'raps you may have heerd on Mary my dear) althoit DOES finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete,with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and aquarter.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Here they stopped, while the tipstaff delivered his papers; and here Mr.Pickwick was apprised that he would remain, until he had undergone theceremony, known to the initiated as 'sitting for your portrait.<>
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Sitting for my portrait?' said Mr. Pickwick.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) During the whole of this time the countenance of Mr. Samuel Wellerhad exhibited an expression of the most overwhelming and absorbingastonishment that the imagination can portray.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As Lowten DID mean yes, he said no more on the subject, but inquired ofJob, in an audible whisper, whether the portrait of Perker, which hungopposite the fireplace, wasn't a wonderful likeness, to which Job ofcourse replied that it was.<>
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Just at this moment, Mr. Bob Sawyer, whose wit hadlain dormant for some minutes, placed his hands on his knees, and madea face after the portraits of the late Mr. Grimaldi, as clown.<>
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The face was gauntand rather sinister, the brow bald, and the scanty curls dark grey, likeiron rings; and, despite the damage done by the bullet wound in thetemple, Underhill had no difficulty in recognizing the features he hadseen in the many portraits of Sir Humphrey Gwynne.<>
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In another long room beyond could be seen, through thehalf-open door, the dark colours of the rows of family portraits.<>
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"You couldsec from the family portraits how strong the likeness ran.<>
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But Maurice was clean-shaven, and, by the portraits shown to me, certainly quite beautiful;though he looked a little more like a tenor than a gentleman ought tolook.<>
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He could not bear a reference to the old tie; a portrait oran anecdote or even an association.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "The third point," went on Father Brown, "is James Mair's curious mannerof mourning--destroying all relics, veiling all portraits, and so on.<>
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