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Sentences starting with picture

Picture it to yourself as you will! [10]
Picture them seated here on the floor, poring by the light of their dark-lanterns over some of the books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting a moral uplift. [5]
Picture her there as she stands alone, Cold, in the glow of the afternoon; Picture, I ask you, that patient wife, Numb with fear for her husband's life, When a sharp click-click awakes her brain To life, with the needle-points of pain. [11]

Sentences ending with picture

A heart pierced with seven swords: what an exquisite picture! [10]
Look from your window where you would, there was fascination in the picture. [5]
It was a whimsical picture. [11]
Young as he was, he could enjoy a fine picture. [11]
Already the darkness was so heavy that one could not see far; these people and the old turrets, being partly in deep shadow and partly in the red glow from the great torch-baskets overhead, made a good deal of a picture. [5]
In them the voluptuous, the indulgent, seemed part of the picture. [11]
The artist had unconsciously worked his nationality into the picture. [5]
The hills seem to leap up against the sky as I describe that region where Cynthia Ware was born, and the very old country names help to summon up the picture. [9]
We have seen Tintoretto's monster picture, which is seventy-four feet long and I do not know how many feet high, and thought it a very commodious picture. [5]
He put the time, the manners, the movements, the men, as in a picture. [11]

Short sentences using picture

The picture was weird. [11]
I saw again the picture. [9]
The sky's a picture. [11]
Allston, Washington, unfinished picture, 334. [6]
Isn't it an oriental picture? [5]
The picture lacks nothing. [5]
Constantinople makes a noble picture. [5]
The picture fascinated Janet. [9]
What a picture it was! [5]
I'll show you his picture. [9]

Sentences containing picture two or more times

At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
When that picture, which I am daily expecting, arrives, I shall have it framed and hung by the side of Herring's picture of Plenipotentiary, the horse I saw win the Derby in 1834. [6]
They made a picture in the moonlight that was more different than any picture I ever see. [5]
I wish you had sent pictures of yourself and family--I'll trade picture for picture with you, straight through, if you are commercially inclined. [5]
He sprinkled fine dust of various colors on the still surface of a basin of water, and out of these sprinklings a dainty and pretty picture gradually grew, a picture which a breath could destroy. [5]
The figure should be--the figure should be in harmony with all that, but, oh, what we get in the conventional picture, and it is always the conventional picture! [5]

More example sentences with the word picture in them

Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
The latest picture you have of him in health and strength must be such a comfort to you! [5]
As certainly as you can tell a good picture from a bad one, or a good egg from a bad one. [4]
If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
Besides, during the years of her intercourse with Massi she had heard many things about his residence--nay, every member of his household--and therefore she could now form a picture of his future life. [10]
She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance. [5]
I have often wondered that Hogarth did not add one more picture to his four stages of Cruelty. [6]
The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
Mr. Dwyer's house, with its picture gallery, was across the street. [9]
Gaston had acted with coolness and common-sense; and when he sat down and began talking of the Englishman's picture again as if nothing had happened, the others followed, and the meal went on cheerfully. [11]
Almost mechanically, yet with a curious vividness and permanency of vision, her eyes drifted from the patriarch's chair to the cradle in the corner; and that picture would remain with her till she could see no more at all. [11]
How those checker-paned windows bring back the picture of that village green! [9]
It was a wilder picture than those solitudes had seen for many a day. [5]
Yet there my wife was, a picture of coolness and delight; the intense heat seemed only to make her the more refreshing to the eye. [11]
I know a wife awaiting you, whom you will rather see than any picture in the glass, even were it that of a fairy. [10]
The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
I saw cripples whom I had seen around Camelot for years on crutches, arrive and pray before that picture, and put down their crutches and walk off without a limp. [5]
How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
She left it where she found it--behind the picture over the Louis Seize table. [11]
Five of them were of old dates, the others of various later crops; the list closed with a picture taken by Falk in Sydney a month before. [5]
What memories that week in Salisbury and the excursions from it have left in my mind's picture gallery! [6]
And Thurlow and Weed's picture in the September number; I would not have died without seeing that, no, not for anything this world can give. [5]
In the picture we see him sad and weary and downcast, with the scepter falling from his nerveless grasp. [5]
In these days, we photograph the new criminal, and hang his picture in the Rogues' Gallery for future reference; but that Frenchman, in his day, used to take a print of the ball of a new prisoner's thumb and put that away for future reference. [5]
As soon as we had swung clear of the cove he made for the weather stays, where he assumed a posture not unlike that in the famous picture of Farragut ascending Mobile Bay. [9]
Now, as she watched the day fleeing, and night with swift stealthiness coming on, that unforgettable picture of the Roumanian hills came to her again. [11]
That picture is washed with my own tears. [9]
But the picture was to be displayed to-day, as being the feast of the dead, in the hall of the embalmers. [10]
One of these was Tintoretto's three-acre picture in the Great Council Chamber. [5]
So noble, indeed, was the picture which Mr. Billings' eloquence raised up that his voice shook with emotion as he finished. [9]
And how glowing was the picture given of the Bride's beauty by the old man, and by the judges and officials who had seen her! [10]
But now there was needed an entanglement, intrigue, amour, and then America should shriek at his picture of one of the British aristocracy, and a gentleman of the Commons, "on the loose," as he put it. [11]
But Tom he was huffy, and said me and Jim was a couple of ignorant blatherskites, and then he says: "Suppose there's a brown calf and a big brown dog, and an artist is making a picture of them. [5]
No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
Yet the picture was bold, open, and strong. [11]
His honest face was a picture of consternation. [9]
In one place was a hilarious picture of a student of the green cap corps with a bottle of champagne in each hand; and below was the legend: "These make an evil fate endurable. [5]
Perhaps the picture was a clanging bell, until Time muffled it and sweetened it. [5]
The young culprit wanted to slip past his teacher with a low "good night," but the latter called him, and pointing to the picture, smilingly asked: "Did you paint this? [10]
But what I want is to get the physical effect, so to speak-get that sized picture into our page, and set the fashion of it. [8]
But her mind wandered still, and she sat mechanically looking before her at a picture of the father of the late Seigneur, which was let into the moulding of the oak wall. [11]
It was completely wainscoted with wood, and from the centre of the richly-carved ceiling a strange picture gleamed in brilliant hues. [10]
He drew a vivid, picture of the villain at last overtaken by the vengeance of Heaven. [5]
The picture is very valuable, on account of the portraits, which are authentic. [5]
I made a very nice picture of that man's house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn't answer, seeing I was the pupil of such a master, so I sold it to him for a hundred. [5]
These, it is useless to say, were probably not the "barnacle geese" which the nautical travelers used to find, and picture growing upon bushes and dropping from the eggs, when they were ripe, full-fledged into the water. [4]
A strong impulse urged him to sketch boldly and without long consideration, the picture of the Madonna, as it had once lived in his soul, but he restrained himself, repeating the warning words which had so often been dinned into his ears: Draw, draw! [10]
He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and shadows. [4]
To give herself up to memory, to pray, to dream, to picture herself in the other world among her beloved dead--and besides that to eat and drink, which she was always ready to do very freely--this was all she asked henceforth of life on earth. [10]
I have bundled up Livy's picture and will try and recollect to mail it tomorrow. [5]
It was not until Henderson had time to take in the warmth of this domestic picture that Carmen rose. [4]
A grim and unsightly picture met his eye. [5]
As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
Just behind the unconscious Alonzo stood his mother, a picture of astonishment. [5]
That he ordered two wreaths is perfectly certain; and if he meant one for Korinna's picture, he surely intended the other for our mother. [10]
A picture or two of Vandyke's had not quite faded out of my recollection. [6]
Another had "here two days slept and three nights lain awake," on account of this same "Dr. K." In one place was a picture of Dr. K. hanging on a gallows. [5]
To understand that, try to picture to yourselves what it is that they think they are losing. [10]
After all the trouble, we could be certain of only one thing--the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that crowned it was the Parthenon, whose picture we knew in infancy in the school books. [5]
It was not tropical, this picture of Sheila Llyn; it was a flick of northern life in a summer sky. [11]
My mind went travelling back, and presently lighted upon a picture--a picture which was still so new and fresh in my memory that it seemed a matter of only yesterday--and indeed its date was no further back than the first days of January. [5]
It was a tranquil and dreamy picture, beautiful to the eye and restful to the spirit. [5]
The Viennese lady told me that in a chapel of the Mosque there was a picture or image of Mrs. Eddy, and that before it burns a never-extinguished light. [5]
A lady has told me that in a chapel of the Mosque in Boston there is a picture or image of Mrs. Eddy, and that before it burns a never-extinguished light. [5]
The smith then told him what he had provided and arranged, adding: "the picture on the standard--you say you painted it yourself. [10]
Is anything wanting to this picture of the degradation of woman? [4]
They both ran to the window and saw dashing down the avenue--a picture out of Fenimore Cooper; a saddleless horse with a rider whose fingers merely touched the bridle, riding as on a journey of life and death. [11]
Every novel is, to some extent, a compound of truth and fiction, and he has done his best to picture conditions as they were, and to make the spirit of his book true. [9]
I should like to sell him my picture of Alexander saluted by the priests in the temple of Jupiter Ammon. [10]
It is needless to say that the plush rocking-chair and the picture of the liqueur-bottle lady did not jar on his sensibilities. [9]
It was impossible to rid myself of the picture of Mrs. Falchion as I had seen her by the precipice in the storm. [11]
It worried her to picture his attire when he should wake up. [9]
She was unable to picture him in a great executive office: This tram of thought led her to the unaccustomed task of analyzing his character. [9]
He never attempted to picture her as a civilised being. [11]
I always said to my customer: '"I am a fool to sell a picture of Francois Millet's at all, for that man is not going to live three months, and when he dies his pictures can't be had for love or money. [5]
He now purposed to make her a present--as in some degree a substitute for the representation his friend had projected, and which had come to nothing--of the picture which she had hoped to find pleasure in reproducing. [10]
But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. [5]
I had learned to feel other woes and joys besides my own, and I could full well picture in my mind the despair which at this hour, must wring the soul of that poor fellow. [10]
He is about to enter the horse-car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching picture of misery, puts out her lean hand and begs for rescue from hunger and death. [5]
Privately, and unknown to any one, I painted my great picture, "Heidelberg Castle Illuminated"--my first really important work in oils--and had it hung up in the midst of a wilderness of oil-pictures in the Art Exhibition, with no name attached to it. [5]
She had passed through hours of torment; for her concern about Melissa, who had become very dear to her, had given her much more anxiety than even the loss of her beloved picture. [10]
For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
To look upon this picture, and sail upon this sea, they had forsaken home and its idols and journeyed thousands and thousands of miles, in weariness and tribulation. [5]
And it was this picture which caught Anne's eye that day. [9]
A long while this picture was thought to be Bindi Altoviti's portrait; now somebody will again have it to be the self-portrait of Raphael. [5]
I consider that this picture is much more than a work of art. [5]
The composition of this picture is beyond praise. [5]
The surroundings of this picture are fine. [5]
Another picture represented this lofty throne, on which sat the ruler of Persia dispensing justice. [10]
I confess that this little picture of a fire on the hearth so many centuries ago helps to make real and interesting to me that somewhat misty past. [4]
I like to think that "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" will be looked upon, fifty or a hundred years from now, as the picture of buoyant, dramatic, human American life. [5]
And when you think of the leagues of blighted, blasted, sandy, rocky, sun-burnt, ugly, dreary, infamous country you have ridden over to get here, you think it is the most beautiful, beautiful picture that ever human eyes rested upon in all the broad universe! [5]
There is no thing of beauty that does not conform to a law of order and beauty--poem, story, costume, picture, statue, all fall into an ascertainable law of art. [4]
Regaining the carriage, they drove out to the end, Agassiz's Point, where, when the mist lifted, they saw the sea all round dotted with sails, the irregular coasts and islands with headlands and lighthouses, all the picture still, land and water in a summer swoon. [4]
In one of these shops, where I went to choose a picture post-card, I caught sight of an artistic display of a delicacy I had thought long obsolete--the everlasting gum-drop. [9]
As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. [5]
At the instant there came to my mind whom the picture on his breast resembled: it was Mrs. Falchion. [11]
I can picture them now, sitting together with their sewing on the porch of the cottage at Mattapoisett. [9]

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