Ear-rings were a very favourite form of adornment, and three or four would dangle picturesquely from each ear, but only women and boys wore them.
At the blockhouse, awaiting the moment when the symbol of freedom should rise like a star over old Vincennes the crowd had picturesquely broken into scattered groups.
Picton, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound, ispicturesquely situated, with a good wharf.
The town of Akaroa is the centre of a fine pastoral district, most picturesquely situated on the slopes of green hills turned into fertile gardens.
Here, during the forenoon, is a miniature Petticoat Lane, only the people are all clean, picturesquely dressed and decent.
Inasmuch as the traveler through Switzerland is always disappointed in the matter of chamois, picturesquely clad and pretty girls and Swiss chalets, I insist that the government should furnish them.
We expected to see the mountains dotted all over with those beautiful houses, all gables and dormer windows, picturesquely painted in all sorts of gay colors, such as we see in the theaters.
Riom by omnibus are the hot mineral springs of Châtelguyon, most picturesquely situated among mountains.
Bormes is picturesquely situated among a group of hills to the east of that long ridge which terminates with Cape Benat and the Fort Brégançon.
Le Breuil is Le Saut du Loup, a village with mineral waters, picturesquely situated on the Allier, 1277 ft.
Passengers alight at the great wall enclosing the grounds at the commencement of the small by-road to the right, leading up to the top of the circular hill on which the convent is picturesquely situated.
Picturesquely situated on a hill in the midst of mountains clothed with olive trees and studded with houses standing singly and in clusters.
At the back and on the north side of the Bath-house is a picturesquely built lodge or cottage, inhabited by persons who have charge of the Baths.
They are surmounted with picturesquelyformed spire roofs, covered with scale slating.
The latter is picturesquelyperched on a hill, at a height of 1942 ft.
It is picturesquely placed in a deep bend of the river Waveney, the boundary with Norfolk.
Its name (cathair, stone fortress) implies a high antiquity and the site of the castle, picturesquely placed on an island in the river, was occupied from very early times.
On the wooded bank behind the church the site of that defunct home is picturesquely marked by a group of ponds and grand old trees.
Apparently the more picturesquely awful the manner of the demise, the greater its attractive force.
It is picturesquely situated on the slopes of the sierra which separates the central plateau from the tierra caliente of the Gulf Coast, at an elevation of 4300 ft.
It is picturesquely beautiful, and contains within its recesses wolves and wild boars in numbers.
A few ladies rode out to this affair, the ground being situated picturesquely on the bank of the broad Derwent.
To the right front rises the square tower of St. John's Chapel, picturesquely reflected in the still waters.
One of these picturesquely gushes out from the top of an old wooden gate-post, up which some artistically-minded coprolite-digger has engineered its course.
Picturesquely placed at the head of the miniature valley is Lulworth Castle, grey and stern, and making an ideal finish to the unforgettable picture.
The first named village though pleasant enough, calls for little comment, but Frampton (or Frome town) is not only picturesquely placed between the soft hills that drop to the wooded banks of the river, but has also other claims to notice.
The way is now picturesquely beautiful as it goes by Steepleton Iwerne, that has a little church lost behind the only house in the hamlet, and Iwerne Courtenay.
The church, set picturesquely on its hill at Coombe, is an old Transitional Norman building with some later additions.
Chilton Foliat, picturesquely placed on the river bank, is the only village passed on the way to Hungerford.
The sea was rough enough; but we made fast sailing, our captain steering with a skill which it was beautiful to watch, his five oarsmen picturesquely grouped beneath the straining sail.
Spiez is not large: indeed, its few houses are nearly all picturesquely grouped upon a narrow rib of land which is thrust into the lake on purpose to make the loveliest picture in the world.
He gave Sir Henry a very cordial invitation to visit his little settlement of wigwams, picturesquely nestled upon the banks of the river.
Indian villages were picturesquely scattered along the shores, and the birch canoes of the Indians were swiftly paddled over the mirrored waters.
The soil was fertile, the landscape being picturesquely diversified by mountains and valleys.
Nor should sin ever be committed in this life when there is none to see, for it is always witnessed by the "old hermit dwelling in the heart," as the conscience is picturesquely called.
One woman said that Mrs. Mowbray was most picturesquely dressed.
He had an uneasy feeling that he was scarcely so picturesquely breathless as she had been, and this consciousness did not tend to make him fluent as he stood upon the rocky shelf not a foot above the ridges of the silver ripples.
We leave on the right the Shigatse-dzong, which stands picturesquely on its hill in the sunshine, and reminds me of the palace at Leh.
At first we glided along slowly till we came to the village Segre, with white, clean, and neat houses standing picturesquely on the left bank, and a short distance beyond, to where the river washes the foot of a steep mountain spur.
Hemis abounds in decorated buildings most picturesquely placed, it has three hundred lamas, and is regarded as 'the sight' of Ladak.
It is picturesquely situated on a height above the right bank of the river Pruth, which is crossed here by two bridges, of which one is a railway bridge.
In my way to the audience chamber I saw the crosier and robes which the Bishop had worn the preceding day, at the ceremony of ordination, lying picturesquely upon the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picturesquely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
