Use scenery in a sentence
Sentences starting with scenery
- Scenery itself alters to some extent under the operation of agencies brought to bear upon it for its own improvement or for the improvement of something else. [4]
- Scenery as always: stretch upon stretch of almost unbroken forest, on both sides of the river; soundless solitude. [5]
- Scenery and mechanical contrivance may heighten the effects, but they are not absolute essentials. [4]
Sentences ending with scenery
- His wooden image, with his bow drawn, above the doors of taverns, was a frequent feature of the scenery. [5]
- They said they were wet and felt ridiculous and did not care anything for descriptions of scenery. [5]
- He will go upon the recommendation of two gentlemen of taste and travel whom we met at Baddeck, residents of Maine and familiar with most of the odd and striking combinations of land and water in coast scenery. [4]
- His pages are too much like those artists' studios all hung round with sketches and "bits" of scenery. [6]
- Then she wanted to ride it, and look at the scenery. [5]
- In these theatres there was a drop-curtain, but little or no scenery. [4]
- We went by the way of the Te^te Noir, and after we reached high ground there was no lack of fine scenery. [5]
- No one takes the state turnpike nowadays except crazy tourists who are willing to risk their necks and their horses' legs for the sake of scenery. [9]
- Irene raved about the scenery. [4]
- No, it isn't the railroad, it's scenery. [4]
Short sentences using scenery
- He is great on scenery. [4]
- It's not tunnel, it's scenery. [4]
- Incomparable scenery! [9]
Sentences containing scenery two or more times
- When he showed us scenery he loved, it made him melancholy to have us speak of scenery elsewhere that was finer. [4]
More example sentences with the word scenery in them
- Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
- We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver--we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color. [5]
- The latter were wild specimens of rugged scenery, and full of interest--we were in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, now. [5]
- And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights. [9]
- I stumbled my way in the dark among the ranks of canvas scenery, and stood on the stage. [5]
- The stage scenery was ruined, trap-doors were so swollen that they wouldn't work for a week afterward, the fine costumes were spoiled, and no end of minor damages were done by that remarkable storm. [5]
- And I, myself, was not able to say that I had seen it mentioned in a book; and yet the autumn foliage, with all other American scenery, has received full and competent attention. [5]
- The dreamy haze was beginning to soften the landscape, and the mast delicious days of the year were lending their attraction to the scenery of The Mountain. [6]
- It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. [5]
- At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
- Indeed, from Lucerne to Interlaken we had the spectacle, among other scenery, of an unbroken procession of fruit-peddlers and tourists carriages. [5]
- We had nothing to do; nothing to do but enjoy the trip; nothing to do but shove the donkeys off our corns and look at the charming scenery of the Nile. [5]
- In the mean time he was studying history for its facts and principles, and fiction for its scenery and portraits. [6]
- But when I thought I had borne about enough of this kind of talk, I threatened to make Harris tramp back to the summit and make a report on that scenery, and this suggestion spiked his battery. [5]
- As a rule, they looked at their laps, and left the scenery to take care of itself. [5]
- Why bless you, there's scenery on that route. [5]
- Perhaps Bob held them in on account of the scenery that September afternoon. [9]
- We can find them anywhere--the little bits of scenery that please the eye, the pleasant households, the group of delightful people. [4]
- 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]
- But however delightful the scenery of the country might be, its aesthetic attractions did not sufficiently counterbalance its agricultural disadvantages. [4]
- The locality of the romance, the scenery as we say of the drama, I have copied as faithfully as possible from the landscapes I beheld in Goshen and on the Sinai peninsula. [10]
- We move up the river--always through enchanting scenery, there being no other kind on the Upper Mississippi--and pass Moline, a center of vast manufacturing industries; and Clinton and Lyons, great lumber centers; and presently reach Dubuque, which is situated in a rich mineral region. [5]
- The scenery is the reverse of bold. [4]
- Through openings in the foliage we glimpsed picturesque scenery that revealed ceaseless changes and new charms with every step of our progress. [5]
- When you add the constant presence of charming scenery and the nearly constant absence of dust--well, if one is not content then, he ought to get out and walk. [5]
- The sail up the breezy and sparkling river was a charming experience, and would have been satisfyingly sentimental and romantic but for the interruptions of the tug's pet parrot, whose tireless comments upon the scenery and the guests were always this- worldly, and often profane. [5]
- It was at the Boston Theatre, and while I was talking with them a very heavy piece of scenery came crashing down, and filled the whole place with dust. [6]
- It is scenery that one grows to love, and that responds to one's every mood in variety and beauty. [4]
- The Misses Arbuser talked about the quality of the air, the variety of the scenery, the exhilaration of the drives, the freedom from noise and dust, the country quiet. [4]
- We forgot to take a lantern along, consequently we missed all the scenery. [5]
- As for me," still speaking of scenery, "these mountains about here, that I see every day, are no more to me, in one sense, than a man's farm is to him. [4]
- We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco, through wild mountain scenery, and by hamlets and villas, and disembarked at the town of Lecco. [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]
- I have sometimes speculated whether the prevailing dull tints of the scenery in the above named countries may not have affected the appreciation of bright colours by the birds inhabiting them. [1]
- I stood there some time enjoying the trip, but at last it occurred to me that we did not seem to be gaining any on the scenery. [5]
- This was satisfactory, so I shut up the book and chose a good position to view the scenery as we passed along. [5]
- The evening sun shone gloriously upon its red towers as we approached it, and gave a mellow tone to the rich scenery of the vega. [4]
- Mr. Nicholls and she went to visit his friends and relations in Ireland; and made a tour by Killarney, Glengariff, Tarbert, Tralee, and Cork, seeing scenery, of which she says, "some parts exceeded all I had ever imagined. [14]
- Last night the scenery was striking and picturesque. [5]
- There was other scenery in the trip. [5]
- In depicting this scenery in the present romance, I have endeavored to reproduce the reality as closely as possible. [10]
- If the Virginia scenery had seemed to King beautiful when he came down, it was now transcendently lovely. [4]
- The more immediate scenery consisted of fields and farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf and a moustached woman inside it. [5]
- What grander river scenery can be conceived, as we gaze upon this enchanting landscape, from the uppermost point of these bluffs upon the valleys below? [5]
- The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. [5]
- It was a rough and unsavory audience in pit and gallery, but it was a responsive one, and it enjoyed the acting with little help to illusion in the way of scenery. [4]
- We had been robbed of all the fine mountain scenery on our little journey by a system of railroading that had three miles of tunnel to a hundred yards of daylight, and we were not inclined to be sociable with Florence. [5]
- For comfort I ride a tiger or a leopard, because it is soft and has a round back that fits me, and because they are such pretty animals; but for long distance or for scenery I ride the elephant. [5]
- The light was restored to her in Baden the 5th of January, 1839 We made several excursions on foot to the neighboring villages, over winding and beautiful roads and through enchanting woodland scenery. [5]
- And I will remark here, in passing, that all scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. [5]
- 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]
- If all the poetry and nonsense that have been discharged upon the fountains and the bland scenery of this region were collected in a book, it would make a most valuable volume to burn. [5]
- If the principal personages made their entrance at once, the reader would have to create for himself the whole scenery of their surrounding conditions. [6]
- With such weather perpetual and such scenery always present, sin in this world would soon become an impossibility. [4]
- At ten minutes past six we reached the Kaltbad station, where there is a spacious hotel with great verandas which command a majestic expanse of lake and mountain scenery. [5]
- We walked all over the building with the hermits afterward, and then sat on the lofty battlements and smoked while we enjoyed the cool air, the wild scenery and the sunset. [5]
- The Cathedral six or seven miles behind us; vast, dreamy, bluish, snow-clad mountains twenty miles in front of us,--these were the accented points in the scenery. [5]
- It is my opinion that the most costly scenery in the world is thrown away upon a pair of newly plighted lovers. [4]
- It stands just on the edge of the chalk hills whose drives gently slope down to the German Ocean, and the scenery around offers an unvarying expanse of flats. [4]
- Of the beauty of the scene, however, I can not say enough, nor can I imagine where those travelers carried their eyes who have described the scenery of the lake as tame or uninteresting. [5]
- The whole appearance of the scene is precisely what we would expect and desire the scenery of Genessaret to be, grand beauty, but quiet calm. [5]
- This is one of the most charming of the little lakes that dot the interior of New York; without bold shores or anything sensational in its scenery, it is a poetic element in a refined and lovely landscape. [4]
- In the manner of costumes and scenery it was fine and showy enough; but there was not much action. [5]
- In the opinion of a well-informed colonel, who urged us to make the trip, it is the finest piece of scenery it this region. [4]
- I do not object to the witness dragging a mountain forty-five miles to help the scenery under consideration, because it is entirely proper to do it, and besides, the picture needs it. [5]
- But it is notable how soon passengers on a steamer become indifferent and listless in any sort of scenery. [4]
- The question is not between Mr. Olmsted's admirably arranged, but remote pleasure-ground and our Common, with its batrachian pool, but between his Excentric Park and our finest suburban scenery, between its artificial reservoirs and the broad natural sheet of Jamaica Pond. [6]
- It is only necessary, however, to explain to the public that the travelers are not gormandizers of scenery, and were willing to leave some portions of the State to the curiosity of future excursionists. [4]
- I think we must have a Burg in New York, and Burg scenery, and a great company like the Burg company. [5]
- But there was more than scenery to interest us here, for, moving quickly towards the Slide, was a boat with three people in it. [11]
- Irene and Mr. Meigs rode in the carriage in advance of his, and King thought the scenery about the tamest he had ever seen, the roads bad, the horses slow. [4]
- The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. [5]
- The day was lovely, and the passengers stood about on deck holding their noses and admiring the scenery. [4]
- A bright and lovely dawn, the harbinger of a fair and prosperous day, had arisen over the beautiful little village of Cumming, which is surrounded by the most romantic scenery in the Cherokee country. [5]
- Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. [5]
- There was more life and amusement here in five minutes, he declared, than in five days of what people called scenery--the present rage for scenery, anyway, being only a fashion and a modern invention. [4]
- Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. [5]
- I do not know how this scenery would appear in the daytime, but by moonlight it is wonderfully wild and romantic, especially after passing the summit of the Sierra. [4]
- We had this kind of scenery, finely staged, all the way to Ballarat. [5]
- To Margaret, with its languidly moving pleasures, its well-bred scenery, the luxury that lulled the senses into oblivion of the vulgar struggle and anxiety which ordinarily attend life, it was little less than paradise. [4]
- In this way it is that the associations with the poetry we remember come up when we find ourselves surrounded by English scenery. [6]
- The writer of it had not troubled himself to invent probabilities, but had borrowed his scenery from the Arabian Nights and his lunar inhabitants from Peter Wilkins. [6]
- The present "plant" is that of a Philadelphia company, whose enterprise has infused new life into all this region, made it accessible, and spoiled some pretty scenery. [4]
- But the scenery is so charming and noble, the drives are so varied, the roads so unusually passable for a Southern country, and the facilities for excursions so good, that Asheville is a favorite resort. [4]
- Where the scenery is monotonous and repeats itself mile after mile and hour after hour, an intolerable weariness falls upon the company. [4]
- There is an intoxication of heart and soul in looking over such scenery at this genial season. [4]
- But after indulging in this dream, it occurred to him that it was not so much a natural aptitude for the art as the lovely scenery and Allston's companionship that had attracted him to it. [4]
- Outside of it in the loggia, where the breezes blow and the tall arches divide up the scenery and frame it. [5]
- In one place in the island of Hawaii, we saw a laced and ruffled cataract of limpid water leaping from a sheer precipice fifteen hundred feet high; but that sort of scenery finds its stanchest ally in the arithmetic rather than in spectacular effect. [5]
- She stood, steeped in reverie, a while, and then she said: "I think I could always enjoy icebergs--as scenery but not as company. [5]
- He said that in his opinion nothing on earth but Niagara Falls was superior to it in the way of natural scenery. [5]
- We were repaid, however, by a night amidst the scenery of the Sierra Morena, seen by the light of the full moon. [4]
- In the evening hours and on Sunday Charley had worked at his drawings for the scenery and costumes of the Play, and completed his translation of the German text, but there had been days when he could not put pen to paper. [11]
- No doubt she had felt its wildness and beauty, but now for the first time she looked at it as scenery, as she might have looked at a picture in a gallery. [4]
- The scenery was grand and varied and beautiful, and there was no hurry; we could always stop and examine it. [5]
- Sometimes, in the glens, we came upon luxuriant orchards of figs, apricots, pomegranates, and such things, but oftener the scenery was rugged, mountainous, verdureless and forbidding. [5]
- The former town gets its name from a huge, squat pillar of rock, which stands up out of the water on the Missouri side of the river--a piece of nature's fanciful handiwork--and is one of the most picturesque features of the scenery of that region. [5]
- The Derwent's shores furnish scenery of an interesting sort. [5]
- He said-- 'You'll find scenery between here and St. Paul that can give the Hudson points. [5]
- At sunset my eyes sought the mountains, mountains unreal, like glorified scenery of grand opera, with violet shadows in the wooded canon clefts, and crags of pink tourmaline and ruby against the skies. [9]
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