| 单词 | unpicturesque |
| 例句 | “My interest grew into a compulsion even though the notion of someone wandering the unpicturesque streets of Manchester and Salford with a camera seemed quite crazy to most people then.” Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle". John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z If the “Capitol Fourth” people are more concerned with presenting an attractive program than reflecting reality — in all its occasionally unpicturesque drizzliness — why not just show the same thing every year? Parking at FedEx Field for Guns N’ Roses was far from Paradise City 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Naturally, the older and conservative inhabitants are horrified by the swift invasion of unsightly chimneys, of country disappearing before the steady encroachment of railroads, mills, foundries, and other unpicturesque but very useful buildings. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z At any rate the 'man' of modern times is a far less picturesque person--unpicturesque even to the verge of becoming ordinary. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z "What a churlish idea it was to erect these barricades, Miss Dill!" said Stapylton as he seated himself at her side; "how unpicturesque and how prudish!" Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z It is well to have the first view of Valladolid by night as we did, under an early moon, for in the daytime it is modern, flat, and unpicturesque, a sharp contrast to Burgos. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z In company with Edward Lott, with whom he formed a life-long friendship, he often spent the early summer morning, in rowing up the Derwent, which in those days was rural and not unpicturesque above Derby. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z A couple of men lounged near him smoking, and in front of them a double row of unpicturesque frame-houses straggled beside the trail that led straight as the crow flies into a waste of prairie. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not, and its long limp ends straggled over his closely-buttoned waistcoat in a very uncouth and unpicturesque fashion.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Mitcham is at present beyond these brick and mortar tentacles, and is grouped not unpicturesquely about a village green and along the road to the Wandle. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z His low-crowned felt hat, his short coat with a cape to it, and the leather casings, which looked like jack-boots, gave this horseman, seen in dark outline against the glow, a character not unpicturesque. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z It is not altogether an unpicturesque spot at which we have arrived. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z We do need history, but quite differently from the jaded idlers in the garden of knowledge, however grandly they may look down on our rude and unpicturesque requirements. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The most friendly must admit it dirty, uncomfortable and unpicturesque. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z Eugenia occasionally thought seeing her thus, that she never was allowed to relax in unpicturesque ease. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z No. Constable of the "unpicturesque localities" does not thrill, and his pictures evoke a meditative rather than an ecstatic mood. Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z The cattle kraals and homestead were surrounded with rudely-constructed walls of stone that in their ruggedness were not unpicturesque. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z The effect of the whole, seen through the gloom of pendent trees, is undoubtedly striking; though, it must be confessed, the sheet of water presenting the formality of an unbroken square is somewhat unpicturesque. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z They are not unpicturesque in their odd combinations of color, attitude and expression. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Useless and unpicturesque for years, they some day suffer a change; a piece of good luck, success in business; any of these can furnish sunlight, and the change is born. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Lafond cursed a little excitedly as he became aware of this not unpicturesque gathering. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The place has been overtaken by none of that unpicturesque commercial prosperity which further up the frontier threatens to destroy all the natural beauties of the river-banks. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z The scene was a busy and not an unpicturesque one. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z The scene then going forward was one of unusual and not unpicturesque confusion. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z There was a really good Ribston-pippin or two in this untidy, but not unpicturesque garden; and these trees were, I need scarcely tell you, a favourite resort of ours. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z It was like nature untouched by civilization—it could not be unpicturesque if it tried. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The tyranny of systematic, scientific, capable, unpicturesque, unimaginative France, evidently rules over the realm of man's dress. To Cuba and Back The light, not unpicturesque attire there prevailing, and so becoming to a good-looking, well-made man, suited him, she decided. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising You can get every colour—exquisite colours, but they are so clear, and strong, and new, and unpicturesque! Lady Cassandra The tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor in the Red Sea was a piece of simpler writing, not unpicturesque, of the marvellous type of a Sindbad story. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" A group of lighters and such unpicturesque craft occupied another part of the scene, engaged, as it seemed, in operations for raising other vessels. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Below stood Ben Halse’s trading establishment, consisting of three or four native huts, a waggon shed, and two quite unpicturesque buildings of corrugated iron. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion The homestead was large and roomy, and not unpicturesque, with its deep verandah shaded by growing creepers, which, however, at that time of year were destitute of leafage. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion That is not an unpicturesque figure, I think. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. For this, and other similar reasons, it is declared usually that Switzerland is ugly and unpicturesque; but that is not so; it is only that we cannot paint it. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The party was merry, and not unpicturesque, but out of character with the scene. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 He rose from his chair disgusted with young love so unpicturesque and cub-like. Old Crow The town into which the highway leads lies straight before my window, flat, unpicturesque, uninteresting, marked by the untidiness of crudeness and the untidiness of neglect. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Not perhaps in the great centres, where the garments of modern civilization, economical, unpicturesque, intended to be worn but a short time, have been imported from other countries; but yet in many places. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Miss Forrest turned the knob and threw open the door leading into the unpicturesque yard at the rear of the quarters. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. He was rather tall, she was rather tall; but he was formal, severe, respectable, and absolutely unpicturesque—she was picturesque in every motion. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 It seems as if Tintoret had determined to make the shepherds as uninteresting as possible; but one does not see why their very clothes should be ill painted, and their disposition unpicturesque. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) “Well!” he said, but less pleasantly, because he was mortified by the awareness of himself as an uninviting 274sight, with his old dressing-gown, neglected beard, and the unpicturesque manifestations of a cold. Aurora the Magnificent The appearance of the place in general was mean and unpicturesque. Records of Later Life His neckerchief was a bright red, tied round his neck in a careless but not unpicturesque manner. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Else, the ordinary not unpicturesque lumber of an artist's studio was conspicuously absent. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Out across the refuse-heaps the rest of the camp was huddled together, a squalid collection of huts, uninspiring, unpicturesque. The Twins of Suffering Creek Even Jeffrey seriously lamented, in one of his first reviews of Scott's poems, that he should have identified himself with the unpicturesque and expiring images of feudality, which no effort could render poetical. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 This is what few painters would have had the courage to venture; Rubens would certainly have rejected so unpicturesque a mode of composition had it occurred to him. Six Centuries of Painting The Aberdeenshire coast is rather unpicturesque, but many historical legends linger airily on the stern old ruins that are passed from time to time. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland As to the Mare Mortuum, it is another rank, unwholesome, unpicturesque pond. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Sun-bonnets shading merry faces, flushed with business; blue flannel bathing-suits draping very unpicturesquely the persons, bare feet stained with mud,—baskets full of the delicate fish they had been catching. Nobody Jim and Sorry, the two unpicturesque cowboys of whom Lorraine had complained to the cat, had already departed with pick and shovel to their unromantic task of digging post holes. Sawtooth Ranch Mattie Tiffany, with her passion for picturesque philanthropies, knew right well that 57 she had neglected somewhat the plain, unpicturesque philanthropy which lay close to her hand. The Readjustment Sir Jasper bowed with an old-world courtliness and grace that seemed strangely out of keeping with his lank and unpicturesque bearing. Malcolm Sage, Detective As you approach the houses, you discern the not unpicturesque frontage of a little fishing town; but all is as revolting within as fair without. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 The part Is unpicturesque, and at war with all art. Three Women Otherwise it struck me as being intensely unpicturesque—at least from the point from which I saw it and from which the entire face of it was visible. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet He likewise decided that all the statues were most unpicturesque, and the varied and flashing electric advertisements to be seen hung up on high around the Square were not only hideous but impossible. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Her hair, curling moistly about her flushed face, had been impatiently pushed back more than once, and its disorder, while not unpicturesque, was suggestive of a somewhat perturbed mind. The Indifference of Juliet It may be said to be the picturesque art of a hitherto unpicturesque time and people. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 The air was cooling down toward evening at Sebastian, where an unpicturesque collection of wooden houses stand upon a branch line on the Canadian prairie. Prescott of Saskatchewan These are carefully built and not unpicturesque; they are let in flats, and house a multitude of offices, clubs, etc. The Strand District The Fascination of London The trees are perhaps a little too literally represented, to be agreeable to the eye, consisting as they do of so many equally straight and unpicturesque lines. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 The hues of evening were spread out, like a rich tapestry, above and behind the long unpicturesque line of hills, the lower acclivities of Blackstonedge, opposite to the stately mansion of Clegg Hall. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Painfully neat, unpicturesquely ugly, the house stood among its great oaks. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play It was a healthful, peaceful spot, and not unpicturesque. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills If the house had not been insured my father has wealth enough in those abominably unpicturesque stores in Tooley Street to rebuild the whole of Beverly Square if it were burnt down. Fighting the Flames He was filthy in speech and vile in habit, being in his person most unpicturesque and most unwholesome, and altogether seemed a creature more viper than he was man. From Place to Place The road was very unpicturesque, running chiefly between forests of birch and fir-trees, with few or no hills to vary its monotony. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar One month of routine—unpicturesque, unexciting efficiency—will accomplish more than a scandal or catastrophe. Civics and Health In the summer of 1791 occurred that remarkable riot, perhaps the most dramatic event in the philosopher’s not unpicturesque career. The Bibliotaph and Other People The fight was most unpicturesque, most unheroic; but it was tolerably grim for all that. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House It gives a place a singular, and not altogether an unpicturesque air; the short dark studs that time has imbrowned, forming a sort of visible ribs to the houses. Recollections of Europe It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Ofttimes, too, it would be easier to be faithful in some great trial, requiring sublimity of courage, than in the little unpicturesque duties of an ordinary day. Making the Most of Life Jim and Sorry, the two unpicturesque cowboys of whom Lorraine had complained to the cat had already departed with pick and shovel to their unromantic task of digging post holes. The Quirt His opponent now was no more the law, it was no more even some tiresome, unknown, unrealized girl in London, with surroundings most unpicturesque and associations that had no power to touch his heart. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House This noble terrace is screened from the north by a luxuriant shrubbery, from which arises an archway of massive proportions, erected chiefly to shut out the view of an unpicturesque object. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath And I folded my arms in an attitude not, perhaps, unpicturesque. Police!!! It consists of a few mean little hovels, the usual cage-work, huddled together in most unpicturesque confusion. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative I venture to think that an allotment is not an unpicturesque thing. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z The village has several quaint old cottages, and is by no means unpicturesque; but it contains little of historic importance. Hertfordshire Her costume consisted in a series of incongruities, whilst the entire effect was barbaric and by no means unpicturesque. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor His work is almost comically unromantic, painfully unpicturesque. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital From afar the negro-groups are not unpicturesque in their bright red and brimstone yellow sheets, worn like Roman togas. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Was it possible that such a home—such a household—was always there, keeping the even tenor of its way among the unpicturesque conventions of the modern world? The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe There was the big blue car; there was the swift green river, and on the river a boat with two respectful and not unpicturesque boatmen. The Motor Maid They may do so; but they are very flat, tame, and unpicturesque. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two Here and there we came upon gabled outlines, but much that we saw seemed modern and unpicturesque; very tame and commonplace after our late experience in the cathedral. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 Most of the boys were gathered near Sam Brierly's Gothic portico, now in unpicturesque ruins and hanging limply to the school front like an excrescence. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy At length, the grey dawn struggled through the clouds, which still doggedly hugged the earth, and drove away the gloomy shadows which enveloped the high unpicturesque walls of the penitentiary. A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories This buckskin costume has now been replaced by the unpicturesque calico of civilization. Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity Their History, Customs and Traditions The Church is rather spacious, and not unpicturesque; many of the cottages are neat, some few furnished for lodgings: and there is a comfortable small inn. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. The ugliness of modern life, with its factories and railroads, its unpicturesque poverty and selfish commercialism, was hateful to him as it was to Ruskin—his teacher. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In fine we of the middle classes need no more be ashamed of our highly unpicturesque virtues than we are of our inconspicuous wealth. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 No smoke, that ensign of progress, hangs over her towns, which are squalid and unpicturesque, save they lie back among the mountains. A Splendid Hazard By his own modest account, Banneker had been competent but wholly unpicturesque, though the characters in his sketch, rude and unformed though it was, stood out clearly. Success A Novel After a little, a man opened the door in the costume, scant and unpicturesque, in which he had risen from his bed. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America The descent from Buxa is gradual at first and not unpicturesque: after passing a small chokey about half a mile from Buxa, sandstone of a coarse nature commences. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Altogether a not unpicturesque figure, with a dusky, red petticoat of drugget, and tattered jacket of bottle-green stuff, with short sleeves, which showed her brown arms from the elbow. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh He took them from his shoulders, and, not unpicturesquely, kissed her finger-tips. Septimus It would have made an interesting, and not unpicturesque illustration, if one could have obtained a photo of the "Primera Vista" camp that evening. Argentina from a British Point of View His clothes were of rough tweed, he wore an unpicturesque derby hat, and he had the unconsciousness of self which comes from intense occupation with great affairs. Katrine She was a fine talker—rugged, unpicturesque, but with an instinctive capacity of selection in words. At a Winter's Fire Maud's life was such a one, and her years had been rather unpicturesque until now, when the shadows began to deepen and the lights to grow more intense. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 He talks ungrammatically; walks with a strange, awkward gait and stooping shoulders; is altogether unpicturesque, but wins one's confidence by his very lack of grace. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 The one light in the entrance gave an awful but not unpicturesque appearance to the scene, for it was reflected on the glittering steel. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 This crazy, but not unpicturesque building, was taken down in the autumn of last year, in forming an approach to the New London Bridge. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 To complete the whole, instead of hats, they have on their heads caps of velvet or colored cloth, forming a tout-ensemble of attire, which is evidently ancient, but far from unpicturesque or displeasing. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 Its quaintness is quite unpicturesque, and it is generally unworthy of its situation. Somerset He stood stock-still, in that somewhat unpicturesque attitude—his mouth wide open, his eyes strained, and his cheek glowing with all the colours of the rainbow. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 The exterior of Sherborne Church has been called unpicturesque, owing to its low central tower and insignificant pinnacles. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association An isolated man is immensurable; he is also unpicturesque, unnatural, untrue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 But even on this topic she felt herself bruised and jarred by the severity, the unpicturesque austerity of the home standards. The Bent Twig It was a most unpicturesque performance to watch. Stage-Land His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not, and its long limp ends straggled over his closely-buttoned waistcoat in a very uncouth and unpicturesque fashion. The Pickwick Papers She had replaced the city hall project by an entirely new and highly exhilarating thought of how little was done for these unpicturesque poor. Main Street It is only the unpicturesque result of an unfeminine knowledge of the law. The Shuttle The highest architectural cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make it unpicturesque. The Woodlanders But he determined that this one must sympathize with his work in the world, no matter how unpicturesque it might seem to her. Soldiers of Fortune She found Berlin, with its Adlon, its appalling cleanliness, its overfed populace, and its omnipresent Kaiser forever scudding up and down Unter den Linden in his chocolate-colored car, incredibly dull, and unpicturesque. Fanny Herself They were driven about six miles through a flat, unpicturesque country, when they reached a branch road leading away from the main one. The Cash Boy The two stone piers enclosing the harbour make an interesting feature in the centre of the sea-front, where the few houses of old Bridlington Quay that have survived, are not entirely unpicturesque. Yorkshire Yes, she said, she hated every thing straight, it was so formal and unpicturesque. Tales and Novels — Volume 06 This part of France should be seen during the budding season; of itself unpicturesque, it is yet beautified by the early foliage. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" It was a very pretty place in summer, not unpicturesque even at this bleak season; but Clarissa was thinking of lost Arden, and she looked at Mill Cottage with mournful unadmiring eyes. The Lovels of Arden The spectacle as night fell was strange, ominous, but not unpicturesque. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War It was dismantled by Cromwell, and what remained was pulled down by the Duke of Newcastle, who erected on its site the uninteresting and unpicturesque mansion that now exists. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe To leave the room in a region upon which unpicturesque prosperity has not yet descended is equivalent to leaving the house, and that is exactly what the young man did. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada But mere work is unpicturesque, and void of sentiment. Among My Books First Series It overlooks a picturesque region of wooded hills and ravines; and is not unpicturesque itself, being well smothered in flowering weeds. Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. They were all about level with the water's edge; they all looked about alike to me; they were monotonously unpicturesque. Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. The ugly stained glass in the windows of their clerestory contains illustrations of the reign of Louis Philippe, with extremely unpicturesque costumes of the period. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Surely the methods of modern justice are unpicturesque, unimpressive! Together Looked at on the outside, New England history is dry and unpicturesque. Among My Books First Series One gaffer in work-day clothes, not unpicturesque of form and hue. Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories This gorge, marked by the Jebel Wásil, a round head to the north, is a commonplace affair of trap and white clay; broad, rough, and unpicturesque. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The walls on both sides of the badly paved, narrow road were high and unpicturesque—not a tree to be seen; vineyards, vineyards everywhere —nothing but vineyards. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters But although the miners' new cottages are unpicturesque, and the church only dates from 1811, the situation is pretty, owing to the profusion of trees among the houses. Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes Instantly a vision of a somewhat dilapidated house, standing not unpicturesquely among ill-kept fields, leaped to my mind. Adventures in Friendship "But her own plain clothes are not at all unpicturesque, and are very becoming to Miss Allen," said Mr. Fairfield. Patty at Home The sorrow is homely, earnest, unpicturesque, and grievously heart broken. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Every now and then the white, pale-eyed, unpicturesque face of a foreigner passed by, but these were few, and the foreign school children were received by themselves after Mr. Lyman’s boys. The Hawaiian Archipelago Indeed, after a residence in the East for a while one agrees with the opinion he hears often expressed there that our costume is the most unpicturesque dress in the world. Round the World The unpicturesque site, the rude and unlovely outlines, the unsavory details, which distinguish the nest-building of the California miner, were all here with the dreariness of decay superadded. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers From the happy glow of his mind every outward object took a rosy light; even a rustic funeral, which he came upon at a cross-road that fore-noon, softened itself into something not unpicturesque. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Unlike the Swabish peasantry, the natives east of Munich appear as prosy and unpicturesque in dress as a Kansas homesteader. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Setting aside the inevitable rawness and newness of all things Rhodesian, however, the situation itself was not wholly unpicturesque. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose The town, however, viewed from the sea, is not unpicturesque. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Maryland is here rather a level, unpicturesque country,—the gaze of the traveler bounded, at no great distance, by oak woods, with here and there a dark line of pine. Winter Sunshine Notwithstanding the high temperature, the country seemed cheerless, the sunlight to fall less genially than in more fertile regions to the south, upon a landscape stripped of its forests, naked, and unpicturesque. Their Pilgrimage Look here, I know of two families of dirty, unpicturesque, Hessian paupers that that fellow, with an infinite patience, rooted up, got their police reports, set on their feet, or exported to my patient land. The Good Soldier He remembered that there was a bronze something on the table that, in the irony of modern decorative taste, might hold ashes or matches, or anything of an unpicturesque character. The Story of a Mine Thwarted in this, she threw herself upon the ground, and then into unpicturesque hysterics. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The foreground was a glaringly fresh and unpicturesque mining town, whose irregular attempts at regularity were set forth with all the cruel, uncompromising clearness of the Californian atmosphere. From Sand Hill to Pine The calculating mind wonders how many million feet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea. Their Pilgrimage On their heads they wear a conical hat without a crown, formed of variously coloured beads, kept in shape by rings of rattan, and forming a fantastic but not unpicturesque headdress. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 It was a long, roomy, one-storied villa, with a not unpicturesque combination of deep veranda and trellis work, which relieved the flat monotony of the interior and the barrenness of the freshly-cleared ground. Devil's Ford The country about is of comfortable, not unpicturesque character; to be distinguished almost as beautiful, in that region of sand and moor. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 And so the Prince is off in the Autumn sunset, driving down the peaty hollow of the Warta, through unpicturesque country, which produces Wreechs and incomparable flowers nevertheless. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 Captain Fidanza, unpicturesque, but always a little mysterious, was recognized quite sufficiently under the lofty glass and iron roof of the Sulaco railway station. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Looked back at, with the peaks rising behind, it was not unpicturesque. The Call of the Canyon There was a center front door with two windows on each side; there was a low slant of roof, pierced by unpicturesque dormers. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories Gentle of manner, slouching of gait, soft-voiced, unpicturesquely clothed; not one of them presented to the eye any witness of the desperate records they had earned. Roads of Destiny You good auntie, it isn't a case of bonbons; it is abject, staring, unpicturesque poverty, with ready-made clothes, gasolined gloves, and probably one o'clock dinners all waiting with the traditional wolf at the door. Whirligigs Very unpicturesque, no doubt, is wealth and progress, peace and safety, cleanliness and comfort. The Ancien Regime The old aristocracy of the countryside was unpicturesquely decayed. Soul of a Bishop |
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