Adjective : a picturesque fishing village. ,a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle. ,a picturesque hat. From Dictionary.com.
No very highly imaginative mind is surely necessary to conjure up a scene of wonderful picturesqueness from the foregoing. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour in Mongolia] Reference
"Tony," she said, "the quality which I admire most in a donkey-driver, besides truthfulness and picturesqueness, is imagination.". From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
The Thirty-Years War abounds with what may be called picturesqueness in its events, and still more in the condition of the people who carried it on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference
The spectacle ought certainly to have the interest of picturesqueness which is inherent in the fortuitous. From Wordnik.com. [New York After Paris] Reference
Something nearer "picturesqueness" and "the beautiful" came to please the sense and to soothe the spirit at Oak Knoll. From Wordnik.com. [Authors and Friends] Reference
Pompey, or even of Caesar -- a picturesqueness which is produced in great part by these very doubtings which have been counted against him as insincerity. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
This certainly lent an element of picturesqueness to the. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
A canal running through the town adds to its picturesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
What they did was greatly to further the picturesqueness and joy of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Its only present utility is to add picturesqueness to a scene of still life. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
But the picturesqueness of former visits -- the motley crowd of Moors, Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Pays Bas is remarkable, and therein lies its picturesqueness, if not grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
A crooked stick on a heath has its picturesqueness as well as the Corinthian column. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Each had aimed at picturesqueness or stately magnificence, and neither had failed to obtain it. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The incidents and characters are portrayed with all the freshness and picturesqueness common to. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Its valley, or bed, being spanned by a number of bridges, adds not a little to its picturesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Location finally became apparent as harbor scenes presented an unique picturesqueness of territory. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
The French expression has certainly, in view of Dr. Magnan's disclosures, a melancholy picturesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
For drinks, liquors mixed with brandy or absinthe: in the whole thing neither originality nor picturesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
He added scores of them, full of virility, picturesqueness, and flavor to the every-day speech of the American people. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The author is no dry chronicler, or plodding statician, but an artist, fully alive to the picturesqueness of his topic. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
These add greatly to the picturesqueness of the wide massive wall -- wide enough for two or three persons to ride abreast. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
The burghers arrived in the customary picturesqueness of woollen shirts, round hats, rough coats, and leathern veldt-broeks. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
A hackneyism lacks the picturesqueness of originality, but is as useful in its way as a public road to a desired destination. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Quebec retains much of its old-world picturesqueness while keeping up well with the times; its inhabitants number about 700,000. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
I cannot boast too much of the picturesqueness and harmony of our evening prayers at Kilronan, at least until Father Letheby came. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Did she know of these harmonies of color or of the picturesqueness of her appearance as she came across the bridge in the sunlight?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Camels are employed for all sorts of work in Northern India, and add greatly to the picturesqueness of the road and street traffic. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Artists consider that this adds to the picturesqueness of the river, but I would have preferred a clear view up to the mountains at its head. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
It came off on the 8th of September, and for costumes, picturesqueness, and general effect, might have been called, to copy from piano literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It maintained, however, partly perhaps by the intention of its designers, but chiefly through accident, a character of picturesqueness and homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
It is inferior in picturesqueness to some other portions of Switzerland, but superior in grandeur of its glaciers, in which respect it has no rival but Zermatt. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
All this would furnish studies innumerable to those who are able to fabricate mouldy walls and tumble-down picturesqueness out of little tubes of colour and gray canvas. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Of course the best of St. John's belonged to the lodgers, and the best was delightful to tastes that prefer picturesqueness with moderate comfort to smug and dapper luxury. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The greater picturesqueness and reality of back courts, and everything appertaining to the rear of a house, as compared with the front, which is fitted up for the public eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
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