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Example sentences for "vivid picture"

  • One of the Envoys has left a vivid picture of Montenegro in those days.

  • A vivid picture remains in my mind of the Royal Family as it filed out of church on the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin.

  • Of Serb conduct a vivid picture is given by F.

  • The description by Mr. Steevens of the scene of one such raid gives a vivid picture of the state of affairs at this juncture.

  • Of the subsequent advance through the former country of the Khalifa a correspondent gives a vivid picture.

  • After the gaoler was gone I deftly drew out the letter Balbi had written me, and in which he drew a vivid picture of his alarm.

  • His eyes were red from weeping, his voice hoarse; he drew such a vivid picture of his misery, that, dreading some mad action counselled by despair, I could not withhold from him the consolation which I knew it was in my power to give.

  • During the editing of this volume a vivid picture of the mediaeval life has ever been before my mind, and I can only regret that it has been so difficult to transfer that picture to paper.

  • Jessopp gives us a vivid picture of what occurred four years afterwards 'when King Edward III.

  • Council Chamber, and the consideration of the particulars of his violent methods helps us to obtain a vivid picture of the dark passages filled with armed men ready to do the wicked will of their employer.

  • Thus Edward Halle has a vivid picture of how the Archbishop of York, after leaving the widow of Edward IV.

  • In the first place the Iliad is a unity from the stand-point of its hero Achilles, who has a completely rounded period of his life portrayed therein, which portrayal, however, gives also a vivid picture of the Trojan War up to date.

  • A vivid picture of that primitive dairy with its cheese, milk, curds; the men fell to and helped themselves, as was natural.

  • A vivid picture of the grand obstacle to early navigation, of which Neptune is the embodiment.

  • The writer of a historical novel aims to give a vivid picture of certain dramatic events in history.

  • Find passages that present a vivid picture, a vigorous action, simple narrative, true sentiment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute alcohol; after crossing; age for voluntary military; direct vote; forming part; glass door; great might; hands were; hath called; hoss shay; just once; little hurt; love and; making their; might have been said; narrow escape; pale greenish; plain speaking; three stages; uncut edges; vivid picture; worth about