A picturesque village. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A picturesque description of the rainforest. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Sadda'l-Aktár," a term picturesque enough to be preserved in English. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
For a week or two it seemed that a cottage might drop in their way; but it happened to be what you call picturesque, and a rich man snapped it up. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
D., is best known, and her surroundings must have been in picturesque contrast with her traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference
An old man leaning upon his staff, with white locks streaming in the wind, they call a picturesque object. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch. From Wordnik.com. [NESSIE ON THE HALF SHELL] Reference
Musicians with string instruments furnish pleasing airs, and women in picturesque costumes do the singing and dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Six Months in Mexico] Reference
I want him to be picturesque – there 's no use being in Italy if you can't have things picturesque, is there, Gustavo?. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
The Comune di Venezia -- the city government -- has set up a web site to help helpless romantics who wish to be married in picturesque Palazzo Cavalli, on the Canal Grande. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Married In Venice] Reference
I know most of the schools are located in picturesque cities and towns, but I'd like to spend a month in Mexico City before heading off to travel and study around the country. From Wordnik.com. [Learning Spanish in Mexico City] Reference
What is called a picturesque style is generally a great trial. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference
I was sought out, I was what was called picturesque, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside of the Cup — Complete] Reference
And in an exceedingly happy description of what is termed the picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets]
It was scarcely to be called a picturesque ruin, except inasmuch as every ruin is picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Boycotted And Other Stories] Reference
She is not exactly pretty, but what I should call picturesque-looking, and her eyes are beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,] Reference
I used often to arrange my sheep and dogs for him into what he would call picturesque groups and attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
THE town of Fayetteville, North Carolina, although situated amid the piney woods, may be called a picturesque place. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
He was a splendid stylist, possessing powers of expression picturesque, eloquent, and captivating, if sometimes fantastic. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
They were of the kind which are called picturesque, with old tiled roofs, minute windows, and a general air of dilapidation. From Wordnik.com. [The Key]
As a young man his name had been synonymous with every kind of picturesque profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
These negative thoughts have become fictitious characters, marching out to 'get you' in such a 'picturesque' manner!. From Wordnik.com. [entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Rockport did indeed look "picturesque" in the snowy winter dusk as we walked back to Hester's snug, clapboard house on a hilly side street. From Wordnik.com. [Working Murder]
They then go into the field and take "picturesque" snapshots according to the guidelines set out by Kodak and by the picturesque aesthetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Picturesque and the Kodak Moment] Reference
“Sadda’l-Aktár,” a term picturesque enough to be preserved in English. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
With all the pieces in place, it will offer a very "picturesque" quality, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Times Record News Stories] Reference
His plans were based on the ideas of the 'picturesque' that were popular at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference
The home is in the kind of picturesque East Bay neighborhood where everyone knows one another. From Wordnik.com. [KTVU.com - Local News] Reference
It may have automatic window-cleaning arrangements, but they will be hidden by "picturesque" mullions. From Wordnik.com. [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference
We tried to seek fun and color those days by getting the most "picturesque" school day or pencil case. From Wordnik.com. [teczcape- an escape to Food] Reference
She was struck by Vivian's exterior, and that "picturesque" in look and in manner which belonged to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Hence it is not what is called a picturesque land ” full of bits of scenery that make the artist's fingers itch. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend John Burroughs]
Well I remember my father's signal, for attracting our notice to any slip of the "picturesque" that might catch his eye. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference
Have we not seen libraries working off the word "picturesque" when literature would have cut the throat of the word "fantastic"?. From Wordnik.com. [Parisians in the Country] Reference
The town was considered "picturesque" by citizens of the smaller farm villages standing bleakly where the prairie lanes intersected. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle's Heart] Reference
Her peaceful days were passed in a kind of picturesque haze, like the mist that, seeming in itself a rosy light, sometimes veils a tranquil. From Wordnik.com. [The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy] Reference
"picturesque" when referring to the westside unincorporated areas. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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