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Sentences starting with pictures

Pictures are the thing. [5]
Pictures of all she had lived and seen came back to her then--pictures of days long before Mahommed Selim came into her life. [11]
Pictures of the saints were pasted on the walls, and a crucifix hung over the door. [10]
Pictures of the old manor were found, and so we have a place that is no patchwork, but a renewal. [11]
Pictures are given of the Persian water pipes, and descriptions of the mode of preparing it for use. [4]
Pictures of home, of a home such as Maximilian Cour painted in his music, had passed before him now and then since that great day on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
Pictures of the near past--her father's illness and last moments--rose one after another to her memory. [2]
Pictures of things, little and big, which had happened to her in her life, flashed by her inner vision in furious procession. [11]
Pictures flashed before his eyes, strange imaginings. [11]
Pictures flashed before him. [11]

Sentences ending with pictures

The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
Some of them were bodied and barked like the sycamore; some were of fantastic aspect, and reminded one of the quaint apple trees in Japanese pictures. [5]
A magnificent reception was to be prepared for the young conqueror, and Coello received the commission to adorn a triumphal arch with hastily-sketched, effective pictures. [10]
I had the Unabridged, and I was ciphering around in the back end, hoping I might tree her among the pictures. [5]
Her back was turned to him, her face was towards the pictures. [11]
There are some touches of description here, vivid, high-colored, not so much pictures as hints and impressions for pictures. [6]
If I were to write down here all the abuse I expended on those stirrups, it would make a large book, even without pictures. [5]
But it seemed to her that life must be dull in any of them, and with that idea in her head her dreaming fancy had drawn these pictures. [6]
It vexes me to hear people talk so glibly of "feeling," "expression," "tone," and those other easily acquired and inexpensive technicalities of art that make such a fine show in conversations concerning pictures. [5]
It was walled three feet above ground with squared and heavy blocks of stone, after the manner of Bible pictures. [5]

Short sentences using pictures

It has its pictures too. [12]
Pictures can make dates stick. [5]
Three Great Pictures. [6]
Not humorous pictures. [5]
Pictures? [9]

Sentences containing pictures two or more times

There's no denying that the pictures have sold this first number; but I expect the literature of this first number to sell the pictures of the second. [8]
Her books, but only those worthy to be bound and read again; the pictures she had bought when she had grown to know what pictures were; the music she had come to love for its eternal qualities--these were her companions. [9]
The mosaic pictures in the dome were huge, and were made of thousands and thousands of cubes of glass as large as the end of my little finger, but those pictures looked smooth, and gaudy of color, and in good proportion to the dome. [5]
In one hand he holds the soft paper, the pictures that deceive--kings, queens, and knaves; in the other, pictures in gold and silver--money won from the pockets of fools. [11]
He had often brought pictures under Caesar's notice, for he was the first living authority as a connoisseur of painting, and as having written many descriptions of pictures. [10]
It will be a starchy book, and should be full of snappy pictures --especially pictures worked in with the letterpress. [5]

More example sentences with the word pictures in them

She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
Look at these woodcuts,--the first anatomical pictures ever printed, Doctor, unless these others of Jacobus Berengarius are older! [6]
Contrast these reports with the lively and faithful pictures of the French Assembly which are served to the Paris papers. [4]
Then to bed, with drowsy brains harassed with a mad panorama that mixes up pictures of France, of Italy, of the ship, of the ocean, of home, in grotesque and bewildering disorder. [5]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
It was all wild but exquisite, a refined wildness recalling the pictures of Rousseau. [4]
The first thing which struck me was that the pictures had been rearranged in such a way that I could find nothing in the place where I looked for it. [6]
The Signora's apartments, which she permitted us to see, were quite in the nature of an oratory, with shrines and sacred pictures and relics of the faith. [4]
The hanging-scaffold, on which he had lain for months, working on the master's pictures, had been removed, but there was still something to be done to the walls. [10]
And what wonder, when there are twelve hundred pictures by Palma the Younger in Venice and fifteen hundred by Tintoretto? [5]
They never know what to do with their money, but they find out that people buy pictures, at one point. [8]
I believe that what I have written and may still write about pictures will give them pain, and I am honestly sorry for it. [5]
What pictures and what harmonies are thine! [6]
All the doors were open, all the furniture was being carried out or moved about, and the mirrors and pictures had been taken down. [2]
We might as well say that there are no more good pictures to be painted as that there are no more good stories to be told. [4]
In the pictures we always saw the angels with wings on--and that was all right; but we jumped to the conclusion that that was their way of getting around --and that was all wrong. [5]
Months after this was written, I happened into the National Gallery in London, and soon became so fascinated with the Turner pictures that I could hardly get away from the place. [5]
By chance she was turning over the Academy pictures of the year, and came at last to one called "A Japanese Beauty of Old Days"--an exquisite thing. [11]
Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
I retained a vivid remembrance of many pictures, which had been kept bright by seeing great numbers of reproductions of them in photographs and engravings. [6]
Pictures--it was all vivid pictures, that awful visualisation of sorrow which, if it continues, breaks the heart or wrests the mind from its sanity. [11]
Another day we visited Stafford House, where Lord Ronald Gower, himself an artist, did the honors of the house, showing us the pictures and sculptures, his own included, in a very obliging and agreeable way. [6]
Some malignant and vindictive Sheik, some brutal Mezentius, must have sat for many pictures of the Divinity. [6]
Here died Jan van Eyck, the father of oil painting; and here, in the hospital of St. John, are the most celebrated pictures of Hans Memling. [4]
When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? [14]
They also showed us a portrait of the Madonna which was painted by St. Luke, and it did not look half as old and smoky as some of the pictures by Rubens. [5]
When I entered upon my last term, my Leporello list was long enough, and contained pictures from many different classes. [10]
Ebers was born under a lucky star, and the pictures of his early home life, his restless student days at that romantic old seat of learning, Gottingen, are bright, vivacious, and full of colour. [10]
His imagination wavered uncertain for a while between pictures of various modes of ridding himself of existence, and fearful deeds involving the life of others. [6]
Yet have we two witnesses to attest them, the prose and the pictures, both in his own book; and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them. [4]
I have imagined two or three pictures and concocted the accompanying remarks to see how the thing would go. [5]
His garden was turned into a corn-field, and the splendid ground-floor rooms, with their mosaics and pictures, are now dirty stables for cows and sheep, and pigs are fed in the rooms that belonged to Hathor and Dorothea. [10]
Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
It is impossible to travel through Italy without speaking of pictures, and can I see them through others' eyes? [5]
The pictures used to seem exaggerations--they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. [5]
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. [5]
Joseph is gone to Nice to educate himself in Kodaking--and to get the pictures mounted which Mamma thinks she took here; but I noticed she didn't take the plug out, as a rule. [5]
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]
The youth, accustomed to Moor's wonderful clearness, Titian's brilliant hues, found Filippi's pictures indistinct, as if veiled by grey mists. [10]
All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. [2]
It is justifiable to do this; for why should I let my small infirmities of disposition live and grovel among my mental pictures of the eternal sublimities of the Alps? [5]
We were well-disposed to do his will, and the Pernharts no less; on a certain Wednesday the pictures were carried to his house, and on the morrow, being Thursday, I would go and know whether he were content. [10]
This requires us to compare the reality with the pictures in our own minds, seen with the inward eye, before we saw the reality. [10]
We watched the tinted pictures grow and brighten upon the water till every little detail of forest, precipice and pinnacle was wrought in and finished, and the miracle of the enchanter complete. [5]
Suspended pictures were thrown down, but oftener still, by a curious freak of the earthquake's humor, they were whirled completely around with their faces to the wall! [5]
During the next three months the one who is to die shall paint with all his might, enlarge his stock all he can--not pictures, no! [5]
I have seen thousands and thousands of pictures in my time --acres of them here and leagues of them in the galleries of Europe --but never any that moved me as these portraits do. [5]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me," said he to himself, passing in review the principal pictures of the magic lantern of life and regarding them now in the cold white daylight of his clear perception of death. [2]
But why mention this, or the magnificent town hall, or St. Bavon, rich in pictures and statuary; or try to put you back three hundred years to the wild days when the iconoclasts sacked this and every other church in the Low Countries? [4]
The walls of this fine chamber were hung with Flanders tapestry, and I can to this day see the pictures which were so skilfully woven into it. [10]
I used to think the pictures exaggerated these distances and these dimensions beyond all reason, and that they made Versailles more beautiful than it was possible for any place in the world to be. [5]
They shut your things up in their houses where nobody comes, and after a while they overeat themselves--they don't know what, else to do--and die of apoplexy, and leave your pictures to a gallery, and then they see the light. [8]
There were other things on sale also, not for eating and drinking, but for wear and household use--from pots and pans to rag- carpets and table-linen, from woollen yarn to pictures of the Virgin and little calvaries. [11]
We always marked these paragraphs, and sent the papers to all the people who had bought pictures of us. [5]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
The pictures of these bizarre cottages, with the family and friends seated in front, show very serious groups. [4]
Yes, it was there, with pictures of himself and Andree. [11]
Some fine pictures there, lent by the S. of A. several of them they bought, the others came to them by gift. [5]
I didn't answer them--I just sent him two post cards with no writing on except the address--just pictures. [9]
The pictures on the walls of the fourth room were worth looking at. [10]
Poor thing, many's the time I made myself go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old scrap-book and read in it when her pictures had been aggravating me and I had soured on her a little. [5]
The scene of the third act represented a palace in which many candles were burning and pictures of knights with short beards hung on the walls. [2]
The front of the temple, rising from the earth in the form of an obtuse angle, had somewhat the appearance of a fortress, and was covered with colored pictures and inscriptions. [10]
Here is not the slightest thing that ever we have seen save in pictures--and we always mistrusted the pictures before. [5]
She was not the serene, inexorable dame whom we have seen in pictures holding her scales above the jars of earth. [9]
The speaker had the power of putting those vivid pictures before one. [5]
These cases take the place for him of pictures and all other ornaments. [6]
But most of the pictures were taken on dry land, of single persons, couples, and groups in their bathing suits. [4]
This law: that the merit of every great unknown and neglected artist must and will be recognised and his pictures climb to high prices after his death. [5]
Melissa rarely interrupted the garrulous old woman; but, while she listened, pleasant pictures of the future rose before her fancy. [10]
These pictures of the future occupied his thoughts so deeply that he neither saw nor heard what was passing around him. [10]
The pictures and the figures so impressed me, that I could see the beautiful colossus before me, and I kept on thinking about him for the next two hours; then I reached New York, and he dropped out of my mind. [5]
Straight up in the air, out of the mountain, rose a white pillar, spreading out at the top like a palm-tree, or, to compare it to something I have seen, to the Italian pines, that come so picturesquely into all these Naples pictures. [4]
In one of the Academy salons (in the suite where these pictures are), a fine bust of Landseer stands on a pedestal in the centre of the room. [5]
They learned then that the stagecoach is but a poor, plodding, vulgar thing in the solitudes of the highway; and that the pirate is only a seedy, unfantastic "rough," when he is out of the pictures. [5]
I am sure that the pictures painted by the imagination,--the faded frescos on the walls of memory,--come out in clearer and brighter colors than belonged to them many years earlier. [6]
I know now that the pictures never came up to the subject in any respect, and that no painter could represent Versailles on canvas as beautiful as it is in reality. [5]
It was now that the idea of pictures occurred to me; then my troubles passed away. [5]
I could say that the Church of the Annunciation is a wilderness of beautiful columns, of statues, gilded moldings, and pictures almost countless, but that would give no one an entirely perfect idea of the thing, and so where is the use? [5]
He always said that pictures were no good--future disguises could make them useless; 'The thumb's the only sure thing,' said he; 'you can't disguise that. [5]
Its altar, like that of all the Greek churches, is a lofty screen that extends clear across the chapel, and is gorgeous with gilding and pictures. [5]
You can see that if Williams had had a chance he would have made some very good pictures. [5]
The guide said that after Titian's time and the time of the other great names we had grown so familiar with, high art declined; then it partially rose again--an inferior sort of painters sprang up, and these shabby pictures were the work of their hands. [5]
There was something terrible in this repetition of sensation--the law of habit answering to the machine-like throbbing of memory, as, a kaleidoscope turning, turning, its pictures pass a certain point at fixed intervals--an automatic recurrence. [11]
The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. [5]
It was the tattle of the town that the first owner of the pictures in the gallery of the Stott mansion used to tell the prices to his visitors; the third owner is quite beyond remembering them. [4]
Yet such people talk of "character" and presume to interpret "expression" in pictures. [5]
Senator Dilworthy lived sumptuously, and Washington's quarters were charming --gas; running water, hot and cold; bath-room, coal-fires, rich carpets, beautiful pictures on the walls; books on religion, temperance, public charities and financial schemes; trim colored servants, dainty food --everything a body could wish for. [5]
Both pictures were sublime, both were beautiful; but that in the lake had a bewildering richness about it that enchanted the eye and held it with the stronger fascination. [5]
Those sad gums stood up out of the dry white clay, pictures of patience and resignation. [5]
Those creations in stone were only a kind of water pictures, after all. [5]
It was a stately room, surrounded by marble columns, which bore witness to the owner's wealth, for the floor was beautifully adorned with bright-hued pictures, mosaic work executed in colored stones by an artist from Syracuse. [10]
He found a stately dignitary occupying a very official chair behind a long green morocco-covered table, in a room with sumptuously carpeted and furnished, and well garnished with pictures. [5]
If a person starts in to jabber-jabber-jabber about scenery, and history, and pictures, and all sorts of tiresome things, I get the fan-tods mighty soon. [5]
So also, generally speaking, are the two or three terse sentences which accompany the pictures. [5]
It seems a sort of sacrilege to disturb the glamour of old romance that pictures her to us softly from afar off as through a tinted mist, and curtains her ruin and her desolation from our view. [5]
But there are some good pictures. [8]
Her disquieting, submissive smile haunted him as he roped his way down the stairs to the street, and then the face in the photograph replaced it--the laughing eyes, the wilful, pleasure--loving mouth he had seen in the school and college pictures of Preston Parr. [9]
What pictures yet slumber unborn in his loom Till their warriors shall breathe and their beauties shall bloom, While the tapestry lengthens the life-glowing dyes That caught from our sunsets the stain of their skies! [6]

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