How To Use Picturesquely In A Sentence
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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'
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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
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Certainly all this is about the intrusion of modern fuss upon a place content to bask picturesquely in rural timelessness.
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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.
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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
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Another curiosity of the old building is a moucharaby, a kind of balcony open at the bottom, picturesquely perched above a door, from which the good fathers could throw stones, beams and boiling oil on the heads of those tempted to assault the monastery for a taste of their good fare and a draught of their good wine.
The Cross of Berny
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For instance, doing a story out of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, I purposely avoided factories in the capital, Port Louis, instead traveling to the less well known but more picturesquely named Curepipe, so my dateline could read: CUREPIPE, Mauritius.
The House at Sugar Beach
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The road crosses uninteresting level country, but every jolt brings one nearer to the Hijan mountains, which rise picturesquely from the plain to a height of over three thousand feet.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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The province's second largest city, Ottawa, Canada's capital, is picturesquely nestled at the junction of three rivers.
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Today the great labor unions are honeycombed with socialists, "boring from within," as they picturesquely term their undermining labor.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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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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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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But it requires a mind entirely free to give one's self up to the charm of historical dilettanteism which cities built upon the past conjure up, and although Julien prided himself, not without reason, on being above emotion, he was not possessed of his usual independence of mind during the walk which took him to his "human mosaic," as he picturesquely expressed it, and he pondered and repondered the following questions:
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a "mother of castles".
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What a asp web site it articulary be to not purse to decade picturesquely planck and perfunctorily get to moneylender comer gladly as a furze!
Rational Review
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His open-ended naturalistic renditions of nature are the product of the mind of this philosopher-artist who layers paint more thoughtfully than picturesquely, and more emotionally than rationally.
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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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in the building trade such a trader is picturesquely described as a `brass plate' merchant
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Outside on the estate, the olives are arriving in their boxes at a small millhouse picturesquely situated on the property.
Times, Sunday Times
