picturesquely

How To Use picturesquely In A Sentence

• Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
• All the rugs and tablecloths the stores of the town contained were requisitioned for this purpose; green baize and crimson baize, repp curtains and plush, anything, everything remotely suitable, was claimed and cut up to serve as quilts and counterpanes, with the result that the beds looked picturesquely, if not grotesquely, gay. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
• Certainly all this is about the intrusion of modern fuss upon a place content to bask picturesquely in rural timelessness.
• Rather, the title relies on what Capcom calls "focus cut-scenes" -- hold down the D-Pad near an event and the camera will shift and pan picturesquely onto a gargantuan Akrid as it crawls over a building and prepares an attack. IGN PS3
• Slenderly penciled, a little darker than her light brown hair, they just fitted her irregular nose that was feminine but not weak, that if anything was piquant and that picturesquely might be declared impudent. CHAPTER XVIII
• 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
• Written in English picturesquely colored with Chinese, at once naive and yet full of worldly wisdom, frank and yet discreetly reserved. A Girl's Student Days and After
• A three-course meal I clearly in the hoi polloi category had during Chicago Restaurant Week a few years ago appeared to be based on ingredients the restaurant needed to get rid of, in the form of overripe fruit served picturesquely on stale Italian bread. #RestaurantWeak?
• Patriarchally bearded, he presided over the gathering picturesquely, but the real work of devising the draft constitution fell to others such as Griffith, Inglis Clark, Barton, and Kingston.
• No sword-grass grows about the margin; there are no blue water forget-me-nots, nor broad lily leaves; the grass at the brim is short and thick, and the weeping willows that droop over the edge grow picturesquely enough. Eve and David