Pictured
[piktʃəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Picture
(a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
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Examples
- He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And the young man and the two old men; they, too, were much as he had pictured his own people to be. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- These then were the preparations for a battle, nay, the battle itself; far different from any thing the imagination had pictured. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Dreary and solemn the old house looks, with so many appliances of habitation and with no inhabitants except the pictured forms upon the walls. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There is not one man in seventy-five hundred that can tell what a pictured face is intended to express. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He pictured to himself a youth, whose eyes sparkled with genius, whose person was attenuated by famine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then other instruments and rooms of the observatory are pictured; Tycho's stud ents, of whom there were always at least six or eight, not to mention younger pupils. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He pictured himself as he was then, clinging to his mother's hand, and walking peacefully to church. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Nay, even the old mean Marshalsea was shaken to its foundations when she pictured it without her father. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have pictured my daughter, to myself, as perfectly forgetful of me--rather, altogether ignorant of me, and unconscious of me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But you seem to have fallen in love with this pictured Helena. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And yet your life is very different from the one you pictured so long ago. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then there is pictured Tycho's chemical laboratory, on which he has expended much money. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All, it is true, pictured the excess of desolation; yet I loved to find myself in those spots which had been the abode of my fellow creatures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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