Many artists attempted to fix that glance and that smile with pencil or burin, but how few were successful!
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
A leap to the ground, two bounds up the steps leading to the house, an eager rush through the corridor that separated him from the room in which Myrtilus was, the bursting instead of opening of the door, and, as if frantic with happy surprise, he impetuously embraced his friend, who, burin and file in hand, was just approaching the threshold, and kissed his brow and cheeks in the pure joy of his heart.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers