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Sentences starting with picturesque

Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. [5]

Sentences ending with picturesque

Is it "low" to dwell upon these things of the senses, when one is on a tour in search of the picturesque? [4]
When he asked to be allowed to report the coming Carson legislature, Goodman consented, realizing that while Clemens knew nothing of parliamentary procedure, he would at least make the letters picturesque. [5]
They make trees take fifty different shapes, and so these quaint effects are infinitely varied and picturesque. [5]
You descend into some of the streets by long, deep stairways; and in the strong moonlight, last night, these were very picturesque. [5]
But so high-bred, so picturesque. [5]
Last night the scenery was striking and picturesque. [5]
The country he saw was wild but not picturesque. [5]
He represented this route as shorter and infinitely more picturesque. [4]
The deep-dyed sinner raising the standard of piety is picturesque. [11]
Are these things picturesque? [5]

Short sentences using picturesque

Is that picturesque? [5]

More example sentences with the word picturesque in them

The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
The landscape presented when the lantern flashed into the room was picturesque, and might have been funny to some people, but was not to us. [5]
In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
As if people were obliged to be shapely or picturesque for the sake of a wandering artist! [4]
Her own costume was picturesque, but it might appear unusual in London society. [11]
Sometimes, when Mavick was over, a party was made up for the East Side, to see the foreign costumes, the picturesque street markets, the dime museums, and the serious, tragical theatres of the people. [4]
It is a very picturesque drive, as are all the drives in this region, and if King did not enjoy it, it was not because Mrs. Farquhar was not even more entertaining than usual. [4]
Slightly picturesque this valley is with its winding river and high hills guarding it, and perhaps a person would enjoy a foot-tramp down it; but, I think he would find little peculiar or interesting after he left the neighborhood of the Basin of Minas. [4]
We were a utilitarian people who would never create a great literature, and he reminded me that the days of the romantic and the picturesque had passed. [9]
If it's the unhappy who see unhappiness, think what misery must be revealed to people who pass their lives in the really squalid tenement-house streets--I don't mean picturesque avenues like that we passed through. [8]
These little settlements under the cliff, called marinas, are worlds in themselves, picturesque at a distance, but squalid seen close at hand. [4]
Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]
He was unkempt, uncombed, and clad in the same old ruin of rags that had made him picturesque in the days when he was free and happy. [5]
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
Showing that the town has grown in sympathy with human needs and eccentricities, and is not the work of a surveyor, the streets are irregular, forming picturesque angles and open spaces. [4]
He stepped across to where the old man sat, with his bald head shining like ivory under the gas-jet, and his fine patriarchal length of bearded mask taking picturesque lights and shadows, and put out his hand to him. [8]
It once seemed to us that, if we ever reached it, we should be contented to abide there, in a place so remote, in a port so picturesque and foreign. [4]
Friends urged him to embody in a lecture the picturesque aspect of Hawaiian life. [5]
He would have to drop out a number of the most picturesque incidents; the public would say such things could never happen. [5]
He piloted us through one picturesque street after another, and in due course deposited us where we belonged. [5]
V Many of those picturesque features of the older England, that stir us by their beauty and by the sense of stability and permanence they convey, will no doubt disappear or be transformed. [9]
The "George" of this letter was Mark Twain's colored butler, a valued and even beloved member of the household--a most picturesque character, who "one day came to wash windows," as Clemens used to say, "and remained eighteen years. [5]
What a contrast, this frantic luxuriance of vegetation, with the arid plains of India; these architecturally picturesque crags and knobs and miniature mountains, with the monotony of the Indian dead-levels. [5]
Then we took things leisurely and comfortably, jumping tolerably wide and probably bottomless chasms, and threading our way through picturesque lava upheavals with considerable confidence. [5]
He said now there was a state of things to make a man glad to be alive; and added, "I leave it to you if you ever saw anything more deliriously picturesque than eight lightning-rods on one chimney? [5]
Coming back over their tracks from Baroda, they had another picturesque stroke of luck: "'The Lohars of Oodeypore' put a traveler in their charge for safety. [5]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. [5]
The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
Just at dusk the steamer landed midway in the lake at Green Island, where the scenery is the boldest and most romantic; from the landing a park-like lawn, planted with big trees, slopes up to a picturesque hotel. [4]
At high noon the scene is very lively, and even picturesque, for the ladies here dress for bathing with an intention of pleasing. [4]
It possesses essentially the same character to the north, although the shore is occasionally higher and bolder, as at the picturesque promontory of Magnolia, and Cape Ann exhibits more of the hotel and popular life. [4]
The life of the river-men was exciting, hardy, and perilous; tending to boisterousness, recklessness, daring, and wild humour: that of the salmon-fishers was cheerful, picturesque, infrequently dangerous, mostly simple and quiet. [11]
One portion of the platz is now a lively and picturesque forest of evergreens, an extensive thicket of large and small trees, many of them trimmed with colored and gilt strips of paper. [4]
I've tramped round the place, and, taking out a cottage or two, there isn't a picturesque or pleasing view anywhere. [4]
She would love the picturesque in life, though her own tastes were so simple and fine. [11]
A taste for the picturesque had impelled him to arrange for two relays of horses, and this fact saved him and the twenty thousand dollars he carried. [11]
He looks for the picturesque and the striking. [6]
Age about 45--and the most picturesque of men, when he sits in his fluttering work-day rags, humped forward into a bunch, with his aged slouch hat mashed down over his ears and neck. [5]
Through openings in the foliage we glimpsed picturesque scenery that revealed ceaseless changes and new charms with every step of our progress. [5]
An elephant on the desert, fronting the Atlantic Ocean, had, after all, a picturesque aspect, and all the more so because he was a deserted ruin. [4]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]
The hotel at the bottom of the ravine, on the side of Round Nob, offers little in the way of prospect, but it is a picturesque place, and we could understand why it was full of visitors when we came to the table. [4]
Let us be thankful that the vicious picturesque is only a remembrance, and the virtuous commonplace a reality of to-day. [6]
The New York tea merchants who need picturesque signs are not likely to run out of Chinamen. [5]
No alarm was taken when they threw out a skirmish-line of magazines and began to deploy an occasional wild poet, who advanced in buckskin leggings, revolver in hand, or a stray sharp-shooting sketcher clad in the picturesque robes of the sunset. [4]
There have been such nearly ideal places, and how strong nature, always working against man and in the interest of untamed wildness, likes to riot in them and reduce them to picturesque destruction! [4]
It tumbled in such a way as to establish itself in a picturesque attitude. [5]
It is a striking, picturesque town, built up a steep promontory, the old part at the bottom, very dingy and mouldy, the new part at the top, very showy and elegant. [6]
I wish to state, also, not as a correction, but as matter of opinion, that Mount Hermon is not a striking or picturesque mountain by any means, being too near the height of its immediate neighbors to be so. [5]
At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picturesque costumes, and bearing halberds. [5]
After we leave Stalden, the walk becomes more picturesque, the precipices are higher, the gorges deeper. [4]
From the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. [5]
It offered a splendid, and at the same time a pleasing prospect to the ships which sailed by at its foot, for it stood, not a huge and solitary mass in the midst of the surrounding gardens, but in picturesque groups of various outline. [10]
Certainly there was something picturesque in the idea of the Missouri private who had been chased for a rainy fortnight through the swamps of Ralls County being selected now to join in welcome to his ancient enemy. [5]
The press was so great, that it was difficult to get through it; but the crowd was a picturesque one, and in the highest good humor. [4]
It would be showy and picturesque enough, all things considered, though I would have preferred noonday, on account of the more theatrical aspect the thing would have. [5]
The Castle's picturesque shape; its commanding situation, midway up the steep and wooded mountainside; its vast size--these features combine to make an illumination a most effective spectacle. [5]
The lake at Saratoga is the most picturesque feature of the region, and would alone make the fortune of any other watering-place. [4]
It is the same tendency which often leads us to prefer the picturesque to the beautiful. [6]
The flat, plastered roof is garnished by picturesque stacks of fresco materials, which, having become thoroughly dried and cured, are placed there where it will be convenient. [5]
There is no ride on the continent, of the kind, so full of picturesque beauty and constant surprises as this around the indentations of St. Ann's harbor. [4]
Between the two refusals we enjoyed the most picturesque bit of scenery of the day, at the crossing of Camp Creek, a swift little stream, that swirled round under the ledge of bold rocks before the ford. [4]
One could invent quicker ways, and fully as sure ones; but none that would be as picturesque as this; none that could be made so dramatic. [5]
Especially the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements. [5]
This costume is picturesque, but not beautiful. [5]
It is very picturesque, and withal so natural that one might almost imagine it still flowed. [5]
Lord Faramond, himself picturesque, acute, with a keen knowledge of character and a taste for originality, saw material for a useful supporter--fearless, independent, with a gift for saying ironical things, and some primitive and fundamental principles well digested. [11]
It overlooks a picturesque region of wooded hills and ravines; and is not unpicturesque itself, being well smothered in flowering weeds. [5]
They went in picturesque procession to the American Consul's; to the great gardens; to Cleopatra's Needles; to Pompey's Pillar; to the palace of the Viceroy of Egypt; to the Nile; to the superb groves of date-palms. [5]
It was a picturesque load of passengers. [4]
After leaving the picturesque highlands about Lewiston, the country is flat, and although the view over the lovely sheet of blue water is always pleasing, there is something bleak even in summer in this vast level expanse from which the timber has been cut away. [4]
He looked a picturesque figure with his blond moustache, a little silk-lined brown cloak thrown carelessly over his shoulder, a gold-headed cane, and a brisk jacket half ecclesiastical, half military. [11]
Miles Hendon was picturesque enough before he got into the riot on London Bridge--he was more so when he got out of it. [5]
It is a picturesque detail; and so is that rainbow, too--the only one seen in the forty-three days,--raising its triumphal arch in the skies for the sturdy fighters to sail under to victory and rescue. [5]
Her captain, a picturesque Canadian by the name of Xavier Paret, was presented to us; we bade our friends farewell, and stepped across the plank to the deck. [9]
Inclined to the picturesque by nature, melodramatic and empirical, his earlier career had been the due fruit of habit and education. [11]
It was very picturesque and tumble-down, and dirty and interesting. [5]
The big one picturesque and superior in a raw kind of way. [11]
That would be picturesque and pleasant, now, wouldn't it? [6]
Perhaps it's the people, or the Frenchiness of it, or the tumble-down, picturesque old creole quarter, or the roses; I didn't suppose there were in the world so many roses; the town was just wreathed and smothered with them. [4]
From the mountain's peak its broken turrets rise above the groves of ancient oaks and olives, and look wonderfully picturesque. [5]
They are a part of the picture, always to be seen slowly dipping along in the horizon, and the impression is that they are manoeuvred for show, arranged for picturesque effect, and that they are all taken in at night. [4]
I was sought out, I was what was called picturesque, I suppose. [9]
Thousands of citizens, openmouthed, gazed down the long arenas of green festooned with every sort of decoration and picturesque invention. [11]
It is not only the most picturesque city in the world, rich in all that art can invent to please the eye, but how calm it is! [4]
We just called on him as comfortably as if we had known him a century or so, and when we had finished our visit we variegated ourselves with selections from Russian costumes and sailed away again more picturesque than ever. [5]
There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character. [5]
It is full of variety, full of incident, full of the picturesque. [5]
Now came one of those picturesque spectacles so admired in that old day. [5]
During the remainder of the act the lucky performers were those whose parts required changes of dress; the others were a soaked, bedraggled, and uncomfortable lot, but in the last degree picturesque. [5]
The picturesque groups of idlers and traffickers were more interesting to us than the palaces with sculptured fronts and old Roman busts, or tombs of the Scaligers, and old gates. [4]
The pretty town of Asheville is seen to cover a number of elevations gently rising out of the valley, and the valley, a rich agricultural region, well watered and fruitful, is completely inclosed by picturesque hills, some of them rising to the dignity of mountains. [4]
With the exception of a wild pond or two, we saw nothing but rocks and stunted firs, for forty-five miles, a monotony unrelieved by one picturesque feature. [4]
There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank, flinging his statue-rigid reflection upon the still water and watching for a bite. [5]
This ruin had nothing very imposing or picturesque about it, and there was no great deal of it, yet it was called the "Spectacular Ruin. [5]
Ancient Jericho is not very picturesque as a ruin. [5]
But there is no question that these picturesque maidens sadly lack comeliness. [5]
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. [5]
The traveler finds no city with more flavor of the picturesque and quaint than Berne; and I think it must have preserved the Swiss characteristics better than any other of the large towns in Helvetia. [4]

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