Adjective : a picturesque fishing village. ,a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle. ,a picturesque hat. From Dictionary.com.
It was a healthful, peaceful spot, and not unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She drank herself to death, -- a most unpicturesque suicide. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
The town, however, viewed from the sea, is not unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
I venture to think that an allotment is not an unpicturesque thing. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
An isolated man is immensurable; he is also unpicturesque, unnatural, untrue. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
Guernsey shirt; and the two unpicturesque objects of the party -- Picton and myself. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
It may be said to be the picturesque art of a hitherto unpicturesque time and people. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
It was a slightly-built but well-knitted young fellow, in the not unpicturesque garb of our marine service. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
It represented his worthy but very unpicturesque self in the hands of an oculist, and the endurance of a cataract. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829] Reference
Madrid commonplace and unpicturesque because it is not obviously old, is now finding a charm in it peculiar to the place. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Weary of costume painting, I had determined to try my hand on modern life, with all its drawbacks of unpicturesque dress. From Wordnik.com. [William Powell Frith - Life at the Seaside (Ramsgate Sands)] Reference
Though as a rule physically unpicturesque, it has some great wonder-places and beauty spots, such as the Yosemite Valley, the Grand. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
In the summer of 1791 occurred that remarkable riot, perhaps the most dramatic event in the philosopher's not unpicturesque career. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Works as a desolate, unpicturesque, uninviting spot, and Camille had skirted the truth, at least, when she referred to the inherited acres as. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
It would have made an interesting, and not unpicturesque illustration, if one could have obtained a photo of the "Primera Vista" camp that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina from a British Point of View] Reference
Maud's life was such a one, and her years had been rather unpicturesque until now, when the shadows began to deepen and the lights to grow more intense. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
They churned along a deep lane, turned a corner and looked down on South Mardian: squat, unpicturesque, unremarkable and as small as a village could be. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The descent from Buxa is gradual at first and not unpicturesque: after passing a small chokey about half a mile from Buxa, sandstone of a coarse nature commences. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
He stood stock-still, in that somewhat unpicturesque attitude -- his mouth wide open, his eyes strained, and his cheek glowing with all the colours of the rainbow. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
He talks ungrammatically; walks with a strange, awkward gait and stooping shoulders; is altogether unpicturesque, but wins one's confidence by his very lack of grace. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Here is no lack of diversity, here are studies in unity, both simple and complex, and here, too, even civilized man need not necessarily be unpicturesque; witness Launt. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not, and its long limp ends straggled over his closely – buttoned waistcoat in a very uncouth and unpicturesque fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
It is a muddy, grey-coloured stream, very unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
One gaffer in work-day clothes, not unpicturesque of form and hue. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference
Surely the methods of modern justice are unpicturesque, unimpressive!. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
Rhodesian, however, the situation itself was not wholly unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
They were all about level with the water's edge; they all looked about alike to me; they were monotonously unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
But he determined that this one must sympathize with his work in the world, no matter how unpicturesque it might seem to her. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference
The stream is spanned by many bridges, and bridges cannot well be unpicturesque, especially if they have statues to help them out. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
They were driven about six miles through a flat, unpicturesque country, when they reached a branch road leading away from the main one. From Wordnik.com. [The Cash Boy] Reference
It overlooks a picturesque region of wooded hills and ravines; and is not unpicturesque itself, being well smothered in flowering weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
A small, unpicturesque, wooden town, in the languor of a provincial summer; why should we pretend an interest in it which we did not feel?. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
The road in the afternoon was not unpicturesque, owing to the streams and the ever noble forests, but the prospect was always very limited. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
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