Picturesque

Examples

• Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This is the picturesque front, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was not that she wanted them to be more disinterested; but she would have liked them to be more picturesque. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Here were the picturesque costumes! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Some people call that picturesque, said Sir Percival, pointing over the wide prospect with his half-finished walking-stick. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The city basked under the noon-day sun, and the venerable walls formed its picturesque boundary. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was a picturesque old house in a fine park richly wooded. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The course of the Rhine below Mayence becomes much more picturesque. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• No date--Anchored off the picturesque city of Cagliari, Sardinia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Because it commands so excellent a view of that picturesque pile. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The greatest example of all search lights, however, is not to be found on the sea, but in the picturesque altitudes of the Sierra Madres in Southern California. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Miss Keeldar smiled, and turned her picturesque head towards the questioner. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Ancient Jericho is not very picturesque as a ruin. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her picturesque and romantic history stands apart from the general drama of human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Last night the scenery was striking and picturesque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Troops of picturesque peasant girls, coming from work, hooted at us, shouted at us, made all manner of game of us, and entirely delighted me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It suggests no crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The old captain was a fine and picturesque type. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Knighthood was becoming a picturesque affectation in the sixteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this picturesque dress he looked handsomer than ever, and had quite recovered his bombastic air, which terror had deprived him of during the storm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Caliphronas is a picturesque freebooter, and simply plunders on a large scale. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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