How To Use Picturesque In A Sentence
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Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
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The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
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Sadly now the road is grid-locked most days, the factory is on the verge of closing, the picturesque view of what used to be a boathouse now appears to be a rubbish tip and no-one cares.
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This section of the Umfuli was usually streamlike and picturesque.
Rainbow’s End
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Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages.
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A sheep dog is the unofficial greeter of Harberton Estancia, a picturesque ranch with red-roofed buildings and rolling terrain.
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The tiny village of Clonegal nestles in a picturesque valley, deep in the lush, rolling countryside where counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow meet.
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These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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So, have fun eating, drinking and being merry whether it's by a roaring fire or a slightly less picturesque roaring radiator.
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The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains.
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He was an extremely picturesque gardener, dressed in knickerbockers and leather gaiters, with a touch of red in his waistcoat, and a cardigan jacket and a cap on the side of his head.
Just Patty
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The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
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A picturesque setting overlooking the city of Bath.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
Little Women
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You can tell this isn't going to be a winter of picturesque snowscapes and mitten-clad children scampering around with their hoods up - it's one of the bleak, sub-zero temperatures variety.
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The medieval ports of Lannion and Treguier are short drives away, each with picturesque timbered houses and ancient churches.
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The houses were in a picturesque village, and the first one was absolutely bogging.
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A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale.
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South Windsor is a lovely little town and the drive down to the launch was picturesque with rolling cornfields and wildflower meadows.
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The scenery surrounding me was so picturesque, so grand that it took my breath away even though I'd seen it a myriad number of times before.
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The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
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Those trollers are so picturesque, and I'd always wanted to step aboard one.
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He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
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He seriously protested that the bow of Blandois was perfect, that the address of Blandois was irresistible, and that the picturesque ease of Blandois would be cheaply purchased (if it were not a gift, and unpurchasable) for a hundred thousand francs.
Little Dorrit
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In this exceptionally picturesque region, beauty and grinding toil continue to coexist, very much as described in John Steinbeck's novels, notably The Grapes of Wrath.
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A picturesque setting overlooking the city of Bath.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly the writer remembers the nameless malady of the poor — that mysterious disease which the rich share but cannot alleviate, which is too subtle for doctors, too incurable for Parliaments, too unpicturesque for philanthropy, too common even for sympathy.
The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses
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The picturesque old town, situated on the summit of a scarped hill, lies northwest of Reims and northeast of Paris.
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They're planning the conference in a picturesque locale: University of Victoria.
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Five picturesque Cornish villages are calling for a ban on new-build houses being sold as second homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountains were covered with good bunch-grass, (_festuca_;) the water of the streams was cold and pure; their bottoms were handsomely wooded with various kinds of trees; and huge and lofty picturesque precipices where the river cut through the mountain.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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They include an old dining-hall of much picturesqueness, kitchens, pantries, and butteries, some of them only lighted by very narrow windows.
Yorkshire
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Besides the dances common among us, a sort of fandango is a favourite here: it is expressly adapted to display the graces of a fine figure to the best advantage, and is danced by two persons, whose picturesque attitudes and motions are accompanied on the guitar, and by tender songs, according in expression with the pantomimical representations of the dance.
A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
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Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline.
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Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers.
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It was a magnificent day; but as I looked over the landscape I thought I understood why the woods, which one looks down on from a similar Italian height, are called macchie ” stains, whereas our ordinarily more picturesque language knows no such term and no such image.
What I Remember
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It has cypress and ilex and olive trees to set in picturesque contrast against the bleached earth.
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The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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They often looked quite picturesque, the womenfolk in their bonnets and the men folk in their straw hats.
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I mean to collect all the Erse traditions, poems, &c. &c., and translate, or expand the subject to fill a volume, which may appear next spring under the denomination of 'The Highland Harp,' or some title equally picturesque.
Life of Lord Byron
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I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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There is something picturesque and original in the first sight of a place like Arras, or St. Omer, with the rich and lavish greenery, luxuriant trees, banks of grass by which the 'fosse' and grim walls are masked.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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He thought that a compromise between the two entremes was feasible, by which a certain element of picturesqueness might be introduced into our programmes without exposing us to the charge of deliberately seeking to denationalise ourselves.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
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Hussars, who swore the most picturesque foreign oaths, and had a wonderful sort of estate or property called the Vaterland in their country across the sea, she was filled with a sense of her own loneliness.
The Trumpet-Major
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That was a picturesque phrase.
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Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad).
In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
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Nor can he equal the sublime lyrism of his model; but he is little inferior in poetic conception, in dignified idealization, and in picturesque imagery.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Outside on the estate, the olives are arriving in their boxes at a small millhouse picturesquely situated on the property.
Times, Sunday Times
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2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window
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Then there is a film, Timeless Warps by Fahad Samar, which is a picturesque documentary depicting the art of making dhurries.
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The well-worn cliche of the writer starving in the garret is so much more picturesque than the bitter reality of living in poverty with a child.
Boing Boing: May 19, 2002 - May 25, 2002 Archives
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They are picturesque little spots, these locks.
Three Men in a Boat
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Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.
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That's why I am frequently called on to referee the All-Female Poetry Slams that are held around New England as fund-raisers for what A.J. Liebling disparagingly referred to as “the quarterlies”, the high-brow, low-revenue publications that pluck drops of verse from the torrent of poetry that is showered on them, providing them with a brief, mayfly-length existence, before they are recycled at one of the region's many picturesque do-it-yourself town dumps.
The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale
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You can see the picturesque shores beside the river.
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From the very beginning there are pictures of English vegetable gardens and Scottish cabbage patches - examples of a long-lived genre, the rural picturesque.
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A sheep dog is the unofficial greeter of Harberton Estancia, a picturesque ranch with red-roofed buildings and rolling terrain.
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A group of kids escorts his motorcade to the picturesque town square, where a crowd of about 100 has gathered.
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Lorenzago, picturesquely perched on one of the lower slopes on Monte Cridola, claims to be the scene of the martyrdom of Saint Florian, a popular Tyrolean saint, whose intercession is supposed to be of especial efficacy in cases of fire; while Monte Cornon is said to derive its name from an incident in the history of Cadore thus related by Mr. Gilbert: –
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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In all this I cannot too strongly mark the utter absence of any trace of the feeling for what we call the picturesque, and the constant dwelling of the writer's mind on what was available, pleasant, or useful: his ideas respecting all landscape being not uncharacteristially summed, finally, by Pallas herself; when, meeting
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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The beachfront is lined with unique bed and breakfasts set in picturesque coves of golden fine sandy beaches and rocky mountain points that tumble down to the blue Pacific.
Troncones Secluded Vacation near Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Virtual Cumbria, which offers complete 360 x 360 degree views of 150 of the county's most picturesque landscapes and honeypots, went online on Monday.
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The superficial glamour of its picturesque figures has faded.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The most picturesque approach to Kyburg castle is through the Eschenberg forest, past the Bruderhaus deer park.
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Blessed with picturesque locales, the city may soon become the ‘most favoured destination’ for the glitterati of the film world.
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Ashill, the picturesque east Devon village where Stone lives, is easy to overlook: a tiny dot on the map, west of the M5.
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The Suspension Bridge at Niagara is an artificial wonder as great, in its degree, as the natural miracle of the mighty cataract which thunders forever at its side; while no triumph of inventive economy could more aptly lead the imaginative stranger into the picturesque beauties of Wales than the extraordinary tubular bridge across the Menai Strait.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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It ends at a picturesque and listed tidal mill next to film studios, housed in a former gin distillery.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I want to treat this as a piece of realism rather than the picturesque tradition, which tends to depict an idealised version of English heritage.
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The scene itself is picturesque in the highest conceivable idea of architectural representation; far more so, indeed, from its dilapidated state …, than can possibly consist with any entireness, however accompanied, of the most complicated and magnificent edifice (195-6).
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
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Of china, of jewelry, of gold-headed canes, valuable arms, picturesque antiquities, with what eloquent entrainement might he not speak!
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
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In the picturesque port city of Bahia, Flor, a lovely young woman, marries the wastrel Vadinho, a compulsive wencher who beats her.
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It has a long, sandy coastline with picturesque fishing villages and dramatic scenery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Illicita libido is = præpostera seu postica Venus, and is expressed by the picturesque phrase indicare (seu incurvare) aliquem.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The slopes are covered with thick forests while the basins hold orchards, fields and picturesque hamlets.
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However, the most picturesque of all bee-eaters in the world is the crimson plumaged carmine bee-eater, which I had seen once - in a bare, dark thorny tree in Masai Mara, Kenya.
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They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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The house is at the centre of a picturesque crescent of houses surrounding a green.
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Luxembourg is a country of vast woods, picturesque villages and rolling hills covered in vines.
The Sun
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You can spend your day meandering through the maze-like cobbled paths that are lined with picturesque Venetian-style houses painted in rainbow pastels.
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In the most dark and dingy quarters of the city, the drawing-room window resembles frequently a bank of flowers; every spot capable of vegetation has its grassplot and flower-bed; and every square its mimic park, laid out with picturesque taste, and gleaming with refreshing verdure.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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The Republic of Mozambique is located on the southeast of Africa with picturesque view and pleasant weather. Its capital Maputo is one of the largest ports in Africa.
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When he depicts a bridge, as he frequently does, he chooses an unpicturesque bridge, which offers an excuse for making a striking pattern of light and shade.
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A 200-year-old mansion in the heart of Ayrshire with a picturesque practice course and 10 local courses.
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Today Bergerac remains a most pleasant and picturesque town.
The Wine Roads of France
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Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve's most picturesque village.
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The French Quarter, with its picturesquely spalling walls and tendrilly weeds spilling from cornices, often feels like a movie set, especially in the light of summer.
All the Street’s a Stage
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Shiroka Luka is located along a picturesque river valley in the Rhodope Mountains.
Kukeri
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The hall, which had been picturesquely decorated by the officers and a few of the inmates, presented a bright and festive appearance.
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And the picturesque Coate area of south Swindon will be one of the sites up for discussion.
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They disapproved of dressiness; but there were many who achieved a striking picturesqueness in their clothes ...
Birthplace of a Magazine
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Sindhu belongs to a family of coffee plantation workers, in the village of Balayagudi in the picturesque Coorg district of Karnataka.
Indians Suspect U.S. Motives Behind Charity
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The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length.
'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
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As with much of Austria, the town is picturesquely set against mountains and ripe with street cafes and surrounding areas that look like something out of the movie Heidi.
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The old village of Freshwater is picturesque, but the new lodging-house portion, only lately sprung up because it has become a fashion with doctors to prescribe Freshwater as a holiday and sanitary place, is hideous in its newness of fiery red brick and freshly uptorn earth.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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Elegant oil paintings alternated with picturesque watercolours, while a number of acrylic paintings enlivened the display spread over two rooms at the gallery.
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Sylvia's position and outlook from this level then, I thrust my way through what I impatiently dismissed as the "flummery"; by which I meant the poetry, the picturesqueness, the sacrosanct glamour surrounding his
The Message
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The triathlon course is of Olympic distance and is spread over a challenging, picturesque and rugged terrain.
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Halifax, surprisingly, had quite an array of picturesque buildings.
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These sturdy wooden boats mingle picturesquely alongside the quay, while they are relieved of their morning's catch or stocked with sacks of spices.
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Mr. Berner introduced Mr. Shepherd to his "punker" friends in Prien, a picturesque town near the Austrian border.
U.S. Deserter 'Having Time of My Life' as He Seeks Asylum in Germany
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Having been fully persuaded of the dangers of exploiting teak, we embarked instead on an exploration of the best beaches by visiting the most picturesque beachside properties on offer.
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Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings.
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‘Picturesque associationism and the ‘esemplastic’ romantic imagination here replace the empirical obsession of eighteenth-century travel writing’.
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It occupies a picturesque spot with riverside and woodland walks nearby.
The Sun
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Previously the pictures had hung in picturesque confusion in what had been a canon's brewhouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is curious to consider — and the thought occurred to me this day, when I was out for a stroll pondering over the duties of this evening, which even then were looming in the distance, but not quite so far off as I could wish — I found it very curious to consider that though the newsman must be allowed to be a very unpicturesque rendering of
Speeches: Literary and Social
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Another realist was Frederic Remington, whose lively representations of the picturesque Old West brought him popularity in sculpture, painting, and illustration.
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The full dress of a Proctor's man or "bulldog", as he is vulgarly called-is picturesque enough, for it is of a seventeenth-century pattern and consists in a long blue cloak studded with brass buttons.
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Allithwaite, which lies to the west of Grange, north of Kents Bank, is also close to picturesque Humphrey Head, the tallest limestone cliff in Cumbria.
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People like Austrian resorts for their village atmosphere and picturesque settings.
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Elegant oil paintings alternated with picturesque watercolours, while a number of acrylic paintings enlivened the display spread over two rooms at the gallery.
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Far better for society's conscience, then, that a bum should fall through the cracks and freeze to death on a park bench, than that he should live an unpicturesque life in an SRO, within the bounds of society.
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They are picturesque little spots, these locks.
Three Men in a Boat
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The region of Morelia, in addition to Art and Culture, also offers Natural Beauties such as the Route of Health, Morelos National Park, and Picturesque Towns such as Charo, Capula, Tiripetío, Cuitzeo and Huandacareo, the last of which offers the opportunity to visit archaeological zones of La Noapalera and Tres Cerritos, and enjoyment of representative culinary treats such as pollo placero ( "marketplace chicken") and candies such as dried fruit pastes called "ates" and a caramel-based confection called "morelianas.
Introduction to Michoacán - the soul of Mexico
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The final leg of the journey took us on a spectacular ride through picturesque mountains, with the motorway reaching 5,000 feet above sea level.
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We stop off for lunch in tastefully picturesque little towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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The meandering blue outlines of the river Yamuna, painted along the eastern margin of the map, makes the city picturesque.
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The chasm is not a peaceful picturesque place, but a reminder of nature's power, which is emphasized by the scratchy crosshatching of the drawing.
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Many years ago, I went to the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in London to keep an appointment with the almost picturesquely reactionary Conservative politician Alan Clark.
The Pity of War
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Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty — its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows
The Scarlet Letter
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They settled in Ronco, a picturesque village near the Italian frontier.
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Delft is definitely a nice picturesque town to visit if you have a morning.
Schiphol Surprises
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There will also be an evening of Poetry, Prose and Music for a Summer Evening in the picturesque gardens of Burnt Norton House at the kind invitation of the viscount and viscountess Sandon.
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It ends at a picturesque and listed tidal mill next to film studios, housed in a former gin distillery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The university is split across three sites in and around the pedestrianised and picturesque city centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fire crews feared the worst as a blaze gutted two picturesque cottages in a Cotswold village.
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Like most Tour de France books, this one has terrific photos: close-ups of cyclists slogging their way up steep hills, or more picturesque shots of the peloton winding its way through mountain ranges.
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It is the picturesque focal point of this green and leafy town to the west of London.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gray, 42, sits at an outside restaurant table overlooking a picturesque stretch of canal, sipping broodily on a pint of beer.
David Gray: 'I'm trained to wash up'
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He is expected to announce that 1, 100 seater HSR trains will arrive and depart from a new London station, with the train route expected to pass through the picturesque Chiltern Hills to Birmingham.
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The old town around the splendid natural harbour is picturesque enough in a scruffy way.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The narrow, leaning buildings and the large city park, Vondelpark, make Amsterdam a picturesque city for walking or biking.
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Houses of this era often had formal parterres with coloured and patterned bedding on the garden side of the house, slipping into picturesque prospects beyond the terrace.
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At the time, Dorset was beginning the transition from picturesque dairy country to affluent summer artist colony.
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The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene.
Waverley
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We came to a picturesque cottage.
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Founded in 2001, Faxin Zhongxin Stickness Co. , Ltd is situated in Shenzhen, a modern coastal city with picturesque landscape.
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Yet its ports are picturesque and its history rich and colourful.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a changeover from the charm of backwardness to unpicturesque, unmagical modernization; and it was more or less total across the thirty-two counties, so that now a cottage with the thatch still on it is a rare sight.
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After stopping back in Savannah to fill-up and to have hamburgers in the car at the local Sonic, we struck out across country on picturesque back roads.
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Angular poles resemble trees and there are cylinders, a tyre swing, and large sandbox, picturesquely arrayed like a series of exhibits in a sculpture garden.
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Luxembourg is a country of vast woods, picturesque villages and rolling hills covered in vines.
The Sun
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It was a pretty town with a picturesque harbour and well-preserved buildings.
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Picturesque ruins become eloquent backdrops for biblical dramas, daydreams of shepherds and bacchantes, or meditations on the pettiness of modern life.
Museums: The Romance of Ruins
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UPSIDE Atmospheric house in a picturesque setting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century a picturesque rock landscape with a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave was constructed.
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My greatest pleasure of the weekend came from simply pottering about in the delightful and picturesque Jordaan district, which I'd love to call home forevermore.
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A man sits in Paris's Tuileries Garden flanked by colorful model sailboats , which are rented out and sailed in the park's picturesque fountains.
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In particular style products, picturesque writing boards, Choi clay sculpture shell packaging, students with plastic ruler, Dart matching plastic parts, children's educational toys and so on.
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The green terraced fields and the smoke coming from the kitchen chimneys of the cottages below look like a picturesque oil painting.
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Lahardane is a picturesque village nestling at the foot of Nephin and easily accessible from all major North Mayo areas.
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Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad).
In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town has a picturesque harbour where humble and luxurious yachts rub shoulders.
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But gradually, small, picturesque, red-earthern hamlets became large, dreary, grey-brick villages and, as dusk fell, the hazy sun disappeared behind thick sulphurous smog.
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And if you choose picturesque, multistemmed specimens there'll be a real sense of establishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Built on its reputation as a spa town, it now thrives on its connections with major cities, picturesque surroundings, and a reputation for good schools.
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As you can see, I was photobombed by the entire tour group: so much for a clean, picturesque backdrop of the desert.
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For the rest, the picturesque at Toulouse consists principally of the walk beside the Garonne, which is spanned, to the faubourg of Saint-Cyprien, by a stout brick bridge.
A Little Tour of France
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The extreme is screaming meemies, which Picturesque Expressions by Laurence Urdang notes originated as a World War II nickname for German rocket shells and is now often confused with the phrase streaming media.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Hill after seemingly endless hill take you through picturesque Broadstairs, Margate and back to Thanet.
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All the pleasure which the people of the nineteenth century take in art, is in pictures, sculpture, minor objects of virtù, or mediæval architecture, which we enjoy under the term picturesque: no pleasure is taken anywhere in modern buildings, and we find all men of true feeling delighting to escape out of modern cities into natural scenery: hence, as I shall hereafter show, that peculiar love of landscape, which is characteristic of the age.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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Constantinople, spied from the road — first under the blazing midday sun, then by "beautiful Oriental moonlight" on the return trip — views "so sublime and picturesque ... that in an enchanted dream alone one could hope to realize the effect of the mirage
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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Book a trip to a picturesque village in Switzerland at the very beginning of the ski season and this doesn't have to be a daydream.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are some particularly picturesque campsites in the surrounding countryside which could provide an alternative to B&B or a hotel.
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The festival brings inspiring and current music, urban culture and visual arts to the picturesque city for an unforgettable weekend in a beautiful setting.
The Sun
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From the picturesque splattering of autumn leaves on the dinner plates to sprinkle of tulips etched out on the grooved wine glasses, your crockery will now have a touch of elegance and sparkle.
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Perhaps most sinister of all was how the picturesque splendor and tranquil beauty of Beard's Hollow lulled my fiancée Cheryl and me into a false sense of security.
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The exterior of Sherborne Church has been called unpicturesque, owing to its low central tower and insignificant pinnacles.
What to See in England
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Some reports said the first plan would have involved removing most of the trees from the picturesque wooded knoll overlooking the harbour.
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It was just like Goa - picturesque, abounded in clean beaches, where, because of phosphorescence, waves glow on a full moon night, and provided a sense of tranquillity.
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There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
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We passed the day in strolling through the town and in looking at the well-supplied shops, and closed our ramble by lounging in the pretty promenade overhanging the sea, of which it commands a fine view, as well as of the picturesque rock on which the castle is built.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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Tusnad, north of Brasov, by a calm and picturesque lake, is important for bicarbonated and gaseous mineral waters and mofettes for treating cardio-vascular diseases.
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The sight of huntsmen and women riding around in red tunics amid a pack of hounds is often described as picturesque.
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As a helpless creature without male protection, a solitary woman should live in picturesque neglect.
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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And you'll have three planets - what is called by some a planetary trio, because we're going to have three of them - kind of scrunched them to a little spot in the sky during the first week of August and should make for a very picturesque scene for anyone who's looking in the
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At one stage yesterday afternoon - and again this morning - it all became too much and every bulb went out, leaving the picturesque old-fangled Edgbaston scoreboard to carry on manfully.
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For some years, moreover, the strange phenomenon has presented itself of the provincial towns being the prey of Parisian manufacturers, who reconstruct them and demolish their picturesque antiquity, in order to garnish their boulevards and fine mansions, while Paris, on the contrary, is directed and governed by provincials, who provincialize it just as the Parisian companies parisianize the provinces.
His Excellency the Minister
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Beijing natives, high-ranking officials and skilled workers habituate the central areas of the city; while pop stars and entrepreneurs occupy the picturesque suburbs.
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(AP) CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale.
Whale CRUSHES South African Boat...See The Amazing PHOTOS
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in the building trade such a trader is picturesquely described as a `brass plate' merchant
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But, somehow, we did not feel that we yearned for the picturesque nearly so much now as we had earlier in the day.
Three Men in a Boat
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Properties in the village range from picturesque cottages and council houses to large private homes.
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This section of the town, a sort of cour des Miracles, was occupied by poor people or persons working at trades that were little remunerative, -- a population living in hovels, and buildings called picturesquely by the familiar term of
The Celibates
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An isolated man is immensurable; he is also unpicturesque, unnatural, untrue.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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There is this in common, in all the procession of Mayers through the ages, that their outward equipment has always sought some little bit of promise of greenery from nature's springtide, and rather a large piece of the human nature which runs to seed in the oriental "backsheesh" -- a picturesque combination of blessing and begging.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
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'The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.'.
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All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
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There is modern housing on its outskirts, but look carefully and you will find one of the most picturesque spots in Wales.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter, whose site is by far the more picturesque and amene, lay upon a long tongue of land backing the slope of the sea-cliff, and attached to the low whitish hillocks and pitons rising down south.
The Land of Midian
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At the same time, she deftly sidesteps the temptation of the Oriental picturesque, to which numerous other authors on this subject have succumbed.
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The ruins of the SS falconer's cottage and the commandant's schloss were cluttered with vegetation, looking almost picturesque.
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Would Switzerland sacrifice its picturesque villages for growth?
Times, Sunday Times
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The island looms larger until we sight its famous landmark, the Abbey - grey, formidable, not at all picturesque.
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As Eve and her friends lingered yet a moment there, watching the picturesque figure splashing barelegged in the shallow water, one of the droll little craft known as Joppa-chaises came up beside them, a fulvous face appeared at its helm, a tawny hand was extended, and they left
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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I first witnessed the picturesque beauty of Sabar dance along the streets of Brooklyn, courtesy of the music video "How Come" from Fugees member Wyclef Jean and Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop
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I've been given a luxury shave, had a go at an army entrance exam, driven Wales' bendiest roads, and taken a tour along our most picturesque routes in a convertible.
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