It gives a very graphic description of the alarms to which these pioneers were exposed: "The fort to which my father belonged was three-quarters of a mile from his farm.
At my earnest solicitation, he has furnished me with the following graphicnarrative of the scenes which he witnessed nearly a score of years ago, when these regions were rarely visited save by the wild beast and the Indian.
A graphic picture of the artillery side of the fighting on the Ourcq was given by one of the artillery officers detached from the British force.
The habit of getting as near in words as possible to what was in her own mind gave great vividness and graphic force upon occasion to her style, especially where matters of importance had to be dealt with.
Reginald Scot gives us a very graphic full-length portrait of the devil of popular superstition in the sixteenth century.
Petronius has recorded an incident which presents this superstition in a very graphic form.
Ought to be popular with boys who are not too ill instructed or too dandified to be affected by a graphic picture of the days and deeds of Hannibal.
Mr. Henty's graphic prose pictures of the hopeless Jewish resistance to Roman sway add another leaf to his record of the famous wars of the world.
This is a graphic narrative of factory life in the Black Country.
IV Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, in her "Belle of the Fifties" has given a graphic picture of life in the national capital during the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan.
One cannot dabble long at architecture or the graphic arts without gaining keen realization of the fact that conception in its elaborative aspects is as much a part and phase of technique as the executive handling of materials.
And in the matter of transcribing speech the writer of fiction has a chance comparable with that of the dramatist and the practitioner in the graphic arts.
Such a one was Madame Ancelot, whose graphic pen is pointed with her jealousy as a rival lion-hunter, who had outlived her vogue of the early Restoration.
This was used for a prison during the Revolution, and no spot in all Paris shows so graphic a scene of the September Massacres.
How I wish I could give you some of my friend's richgraphic sketches and humorous pictures of popular manner!
It was a brilliant and graphic celebration of the art of skating, engrafted on a love-tale as full of romance and movement as could be desired.
Miss Miller well recollects being closeted with her and other young companions for the purpose of hearing her narrate little stories of her own invention, which she did in a graphic and amusing manner.
It gives us a graphic picture of the poet as he appeared in outward semblance and manner to those about whom he wrote.
It is brightly and cleverly written, admirably constructed, and gives a most vivid and graphic picture of that strange modern drama, the drama of Dickens's life.
It is entitled Khitraya Mekhanika (Cunning Machinery), and gives a graphic picture of the ideas and methods employed.
The reports of the agitators to the central organisation, written hurriedly during this eventful week, are extremely graphic and interesting.
In his numerous ukazes he has left us a graphic description of his efforts, and it is at once instructive and pathetic to watch the great worker toiling indefatigably at his self-imposed task.
Of this slave trade, which flourished down to 1783, when the Crimea was finally conquered and annexed by Russia, we have a graphic account by an eye-witness, a Lithuanian traveller of the sixteenth century.
Like all epigrammatic sayings, this laconic reply is far from giving a complete description of reality, but it indicates in a graphic way a change that has unquestionably taken place.
This song, and the one entitled Mary Morison render the whole scenery and sentiment of those rural meetings in a manner at once graphic and free from coarseness.
The whole is represented with an inimitably graphic hand, and just when the caustic wit is beginning to get too biting, the edge of it is turned by a touch of kindlier humour.
For a piece of good graphic Scotch, see how he describes the sturdy old mare in the plough setting her face to the furzy braes.
And now let me give a few hints on how to practise almost the most difficult of all the graphic arts.
A graphic portrait in words of the famous novelist "George Eliot" has been given by Mrs. Katherine S.
So light and airy, dainty and delicate, is this delightful process, that it may well be called the fairy queen of the graphic arts.
Who that has read Taine's graphic portraiture of the Elizabethan age can fail ever thereafter to see Shakespeare stand forth vividly?
These brilliant pages teem with graphic descriptions of the actual usages, social and religious, of their age, so that there is no difficulty in reproducing with fair accuracy the salient features of the period.
The descriptions of Nature aregraphic and eloquent.
Their proverbial sayings abound with graphic pen-pictures of the folly of vice.
Stansbury, for twenty-five years a reporter of Congress, has given us a very lively and graphic description of the scene in his "Recollections and Anecdotes of the Presidents of the United States.
Last summer Paris flocked to a graphic exhibition of how to rebuild a destroyed city.
It was a moving and graphic story of the war showing how a certain English lad volunteers at the outset and goes to the front.
