Thus exposed to the glare of the flames, the foremost woodsman presented a singularly picturesque figure.
High upon a bluff overhanging the majestic, slow-winding Ohio, the colonel's cabin afforded a commanding position from which to view the picturesque valley.
The black, smoldering ruins of the burned cabins defaced a picturesque scene.
These lively young men had been in unusual demand of late, and their hiding-place was not known even to the faithful, so I was condemned to the society of an outlier of a less picturesque variety.
I'm mighty glad, though, we've made up our minds to go back by way of the Canadian Pacific road, so as to see what the picturesque Selkirks look like.
Lyndsay of Pitscottie, Historie of Scotland: picturesque but not too trustworthy.
Murray's figure in history is a sombre one, and the sombreness is thrown into the greater relief by the picturesquebrilliancy of his hapless sister.
Stripped of picturesque adjectives and reduced to a not superfluously accurate statement of facts resting on easily accepted stories by a strongly biased reporter, his evidence against Bonner and Gardiner is not very damnatory.
Then there arose a picturesque historian, who recognised in Henry VIII.
As they neared the lower town, the narrow streets became more and more crowded with men in the shantymen's picturesque dress, and they had some difficulty in making their way through the jolly, jostling crowds.
What made Handel superior to his rivals was the romantic and picturesque side of his works; probably also, his prodigious and unvarying fertility.
His ballet music owes much of its excellence to the picturesque variety of the rhythms.
Beauty even appears in the score at moments, and there are charming and picturesque bits, as well as puerilities and shocking vulgarities.
Old editions of Haydn's symphonies show a picturesque arrangement, in that the disposition of the orchestra is shown on the printed page.
There is real feeling, grandeur and even something of the picturesque in these works--as much as could be with the means at their disposal.
Emboldened by his success he wrote the Seasons, a colossal work, the most varied and the most picturesque in the history of ancient or modern music.
Many curious and picturesque legends attest the popular belief that the old Roman and the old barbarian divinities, in their capacity of daemons, were still waging an unrelenting war against the triumphant faith.
A very famous and rather picturesque history of this kind is related by Gregory of Tours.
The hunted stag was especially the theme of many picturesque legends.
There is also a very picturesque legend of the manner in which St. Paphnutius converted the courtesan Thais.
It became more and more clear to him as they talked, that she was determined to elope with him, to go to Italy, and there have an extraordinarily picturesque and beautiful time.
The project unfolded the picture of a new method of conduct to her, austere, yet picturesqueand richly noble.
They went through a reluctant lock, steamed up a long reach, they passed the queerly painted Potwell Inn with its picturesque group of poplars and its absurd new notice-board of "Omlets.
You dress your minds a little to talk amusingly, you spread your minds out to backgrounds, to households, picturesque and delightful gardens, nurseries.
That the new city that springs from its ashes may prove as picturesque as the old, and be animated by the same spirit, is the hope of the author of these pages.
Hampden, you've seen the mostpicturesque liar that ever struck the Golden Gate.
In the excitement of the moment I was not aware of the picturesque figure I made until I saw the horror-stricken look that swept over Laura Kendrick's face as she met me in the hall.
Their picturesquepronunciation gives their conversation a piquancy which defies imitation.
I have spoken in a preceding chapter of the picturesque manner in which the Scotch people of the old school express themselves.
Nothing can be more suave, piquant, and picturesquethan the wild and primitive melodies of the songs of Scotland.
There was nothing about it to arrest the attention of a passer-by, except, perhaps, all appearance of extreme but picturesque humility.
Chaucer spent the years of his childhood and youth in London: a London which the great fire of 1666 almost totally destroyed, that old London, then quite young, of which illuminated manuscripts have preserved to us the picturesque aspect.
They came upon a country no less beautiful than the one they had left, though the picturesque cliffs and rugged hills had given way to a rolling land, the luxuriance of which was explained by the abundant springs and streams.
The scene was picturesque and reposeful; the vivid hues suggesting the Indians love of color and ornament; the absence of life and stir, his languorous habit of sleeping away the hot noonday hours.
Surely I need not inquire whether you were the chief designer of these lovely terraces and sparkling fountains, and that picturesque rockwork," said the captain, bowing as he spoke.
It was always most picturesque in the late afternoon, and just now the clouds, lit up by the western sun, were especially beautiful.
He was taken for a sail in the Shooting Star, given a drive behind old Dobbin, and initiated into the picturesque pleasures of the roof-garden.
The aspects of this great precipice along its whole length are grand and romantic, and as the land at its foot does not subside to the sea by easy levels, Natal is picturesque everywhere.
On the way to Cape Town we called at Mossel Bay, a picturesque little seaport lying midway between Algoa and Table Bays.
He names God frequently and alludes to the highest things as if they were realities, but all only as for a picturesque effect, so completely does he seem to regard them as habitually circumvented and set at naught by the politicians.
The Geographic Board, in its laudable effort to simplify American nomenclature, has played ducks and drakes with some of the most picturesque names on the national map.
Alternately warring with sharp tongues, sharp pens, and sharp swords they went on losing their tempers, friends, and lives in the most gallant and picturesque manner imaginable.
On Bacon's fall it was granted to Buckingham, whose desire to possess the picturesque palace was one of the motives which impelled him to blacken the great lawyer's reputation.
In the following bright andpicturesque sentence, Dr.
It was very picturesque and tumble-down, and dirty and interesting.
Although not reckoning amongst the grander waterfalls of Scotland, the cataract on the Garravalt, in the Queen's Forest of Ballochbuie, is behind few in the picturesque wildness of its surroundings.
This is not to be however, and we may turn away to look for a moment at the picturesque country in which this attractive waterfall is situated.
The very ancient burgh of Lochmaben lies on a branch line a little distance from Lockerbie junction, and, apart from its picturesque surroundings, the old place presents attractions of its own.
This ruin is one of the favourite subjects of the Scottish landscape painter, and its picturesque character is well seen in our view.
The days of warlike lords and border forays are over for the Castle of Lochmaben, and now it is to be regarded merely as a splendid addition to the picturesque attractions of this very charming district.
Doubtless, if the flood had plunged in one sheer leap, the turmoil below would have been greater, but the picturesque aspects of the scene would have been lessened.
Perfect is it also in its fine lochs, its picturesque waterfalls, its brattling burns, and its rolling rivers.
The beautiful cathedral, the picturesque situation of the little town above the little river and the very ancient Gothic buildings must have been an attraction to the knowing.
He had no doubt that, seen in the sunshine and as it was, it had been both picturesque and beautiful.
On our third day out we crossed a most picturesque stream called the Panascos River.
This camp on the picturesque brink of the Grand Barranca I called Camp Diaz, after Mexico's president.
These cliff dwellers had taken a huge cave in the limestone rock, some seventy-five feet above the water and almost overhanging the picturesque stream.
Just before reaching the Mormon colony you come to a high ridge from which can be seen the little town nestling along the banks of the picturesque Piedras Verdes River.
Although that made it somewhat laborious for us, as well as our animals, it gave us unusually fine views and picturesque effects, and despite the roughness of the trail we rode fifteen miles that morning and made our noon camp on time.
A hotel to cost a quarter of a million was started on a beautiful knoll overlooking the picturesque harbor, but after about one-tenth that amount had been put into the foundation and carriage way leading up the hill it was given up.
In the picturesque mountain scenery it looked at a short distance away like an old castle, and only a nearer inspection dispelled the illusion.
Our camp had been made in a little glen between two peaks, alongside one of the numerous clear, cold streams that wind in and about through all these mountains, and furnish the loveliest and most picturesque spots imaginable for camping.
The trail from Camp Diaz to our fifth camp in the Arroyo de los Angelitos along the western side of the Grand Barranca of the Urique, was as picturesque as the most poetical imagination could conceive.
This fact removes an interesting feature of Mexican travel from the sight of the average American tourist, for, as a rule, he prefers comfort to the study of the picturesque in his fellow-travelers.
After crossing wide mesas and threading our way around the bases of many picturesque groups of mountains, we came to the Casas Grandes River and valley, and along this stream, literally alive with ducks, we traveled for some hours.
The third act, most romantic, most picturesque of all, an incomparable union of heroism with policy at double play with all the shifts of circumstance, opened a few weeks later.
