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Example sentences for "pretty picture"

  • Here is a pretty picture of the girl: 'Among the best and fairest maidens you were like a rose among flowers, like the moon among stars; so far more lovely were you than the loveliest.

  • After leaving the cathedral we saw a pretty picture in a dull old street of San Remo--three children leaning from a window, blowing bubbles.

  • A fresh young voice gaily greeted her and Helen Rushton stood before her, a pretty picture in her morning costume of delicate cambric.

  • Marguerite Verne was indeed a pretty picture to study.

  • She admired the gentle, winning, child-like ways of the New Brunswick maiden, and together they formed a pretty picture.

  • One, a bewitching brunette, dressed in slight mourning, is indeed a pretty picture to contemplate.

  • It was a pretty picture,--maternal love on the one part, and happy trust on the other.

  • They make a pretty picture as he walks in the garden with her to "see birdies.

  • We have had a little feast, sent by good Mrs. Judge Shaw; then the old folks danced round the bridal pair on the lawn in the German fashion, making a pretty picture to remember, under our Revolutionary elm.

  • Newchurch makes a pretty picture, thoroughly characteristic of the marsh.

  • He says I've been at it for three years, and I haven't painted a pretty picture yet.

  • It was a little picture, twelve inches by sixteen, in a dingy old frame, and not a pretty picture at that.

  • She made a pretty picture in her white gown, standing shoulder-high among the brown stalks, her slender fingers deftly gleaning from such as showed no rust.

  • They made a pretty picture--youth and old age, early spring and late winter.

  • She made a pretty picture as she paused at the door.

  • She made a pretty picture as she passed among the men, her short, narrowskirted riding dress and little felt hat setting off her lithe, active form perfectly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    diddle diddle; ever were; habitual drunkenness; impartial suffrage; pretty birds; pretty considerable; pretty fair; pretty fellow; pretty hard; pretty large; pretty lass; pretty little; pretty long; pretty nigh; pretty picture; pretty place; pretty sight; pretty strong; pretty thing; pretty woman; pretty young; tripartite resolution; upper window; what are you going; word meaning; would have been better