Pictures
['pɪktʃəz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries. To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative enterprise. To destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using strenuous means to establish your rights. To buy them, foretells worthless speculation. To dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing, denotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there will be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal understanding of ideas and plans. To dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old and modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings and desires for higher attainments, compared to which present success will seem poverty-stricken and miserable. See Painting and Photographs.
Editor: Manuel
Examples
- The taking of the pictures. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That of the evolution of motion pictures follows. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He delivered the jewels to the Abbot, and then showed him the pictures. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These pictures are so perfect in detail that, when photographed and enlarged, objects no greater than a blade of grass may be distinctly recognized. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Through this intermittent movement I obtain a longer period of rest for each picture, which accomplishes perfect projection of pictures without flicker. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But their solid carvings are at least as old as their first pictures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They went into the great blank rooms, the walls of which bore the marks where the pictures and mirrors had hung. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was also Mr. Isaacs, who did a great deal of photographic work, and to whom we must be thankful for the pictures of Menlo Park in connection with Edison's work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I used once to see pictures in the fire,' said Lizzie playfully, 'to please my brother. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On either side are represented as hanging small pictures of Tycho's patron, Frederick II of Denmark (d. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Vare is de most fine pictures? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A crowd in a little roomMiss Woodhouse, you have the art of giving pictures in a few words. Jane Austen. Emma.
- They are ten inches high and seven or eight inches wide, and each is made up of three small pictures, separated by lines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Are the pictures all as they used to be? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You're like the pictures on the walls of a deserted house: 'The Portrait of a Gentleman. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Such pictures were quickly made, and were much in vogue forty years ago, but are now obsolete. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You know, uncle, I never see the beauty of those pictures which you say are so much praised. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Turn to the wall and study your four pictures of a woman's life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He spread the pictures before him, and again surveyed them alternately. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Again, in a moment, there arose before my mind innumerable pictures of myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The pictures drawn in these books were so vivid, that we seemed to have experienced the results depicted by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- True, he had seen pictures in his books of men with great masses of hair upon lip and cheek and chin, but, nevertheless, Tarzan was afraid. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This little instrument was slung in a case looking like a cartridge box, and its sensitive roll was able to receive 100 successive pictures. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Today the years glide by like pleasant pictures. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They look at each other, like two pictures. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Manuel