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Example sentences for "pictures"

Lexicographically close words:
pictorially; pictur; pictura; picture; pictured; picturesque; picturesquely; picturesqueness; picturing; picturings
  1. It is a larger book than mine and costs more, and has more pictures in it than mine, but is it a work that will make a man lead a different life?

  2. It was a plain structure, with beautiful sarsaparilla pictures here and there on the walls and a faint odor of rancid pomatum and overworked hair restoratives.

  3. If you had stopped to reason, you would have seen it was your duty to agree with your skipper.

  4. Not far ahead; but by the height of the water on the beach, there'll be nothing to be seen of her for the next nine hours.

  5. The hint from the Litany, the fragment from the clouds, the pictures on the storied windows were sufficient.

  6. The King of Bavaria has formed the gigantic design of causing to be executed a series of pictures on subjects derived from the annals of all times and all nations; the whole being destined to form a sort of pictorial universal chronology.

  7. And his pictures are the weirdest nightmares imaginable.

  8. In comparison with the effected futurism of the other pictures in the studio, "Our Lady of the Poppies," beyond question was a great painting.

  9. The song is on a subject taken from the Trojan war, at some point chosen by the singer himself, or by his hearers.

  10. Greeks spoke the same language--that is to say, that they understood one another, in spite of the inevitable local differences.

  11. September of the same year he was admitted a fellow.

  12. Francisco worked, and how he robbed Rome of this precious relic, and how he painted it in oils, although in all his life he had never been a painter in oils, and only made pictures hitherto easily contained on a small parchment.

  13. And on the contrary, the ignorance of others in the foolhardy daring with which they fill pictures with what they know nothing about.

  14. His two pictures of this shape in Florence perhaps helped Michael Angelo in the three compositions we have been considering; and this is the only debt Michael Angelo owes to the Umbrian painter.

  15. It is quite true that we have not such buildings and pictures as you have, but they are already being made, and little by little they are losing that barbarian superfluity that the Goths and Moors sowed throughout Spain.

  16. He is recorded to have called statues "idols of the Pagans," and he spent no money on pictures or frescoes.

  17. Thus, the vault may be regarded as a gallery of one hundred and forty-five separate pictures by Michael Angelo.

  18. One painter only before this time decorated his pictures with nude human figures, Luca Signorelli.

  19. Pictures of labour, of healthy effort, of simple content!

  20. The walls were still covered with frescoes, the colours almost unspoilt; the richly carved altar-screen still showed signs of gilding; hardly defaced were its many little pictures of saints.

  21. At the lower part of these separations are the pictures of the most venerated saints.

  22. He pictures all Yankees as puritanic, rigid, fanatical, and talking through the nose.

  23. Most of his pictures greatly idealize his full, rather heavy face.

  24. Lo, the pictures and statues, the Brussels and rosewood which his money has bought!

  25. A procession of pictures was marching through her mind.

  26. They began to force themselves upon her attention so that her mind must leave its pictures and distinguish them.

  27. No pictures or ornaments disfigured the walls.

  28. But I have vowed to keep a written record of the pictures which have charmed or moved me most during this campaign.

  29. Camp-ward, the watchfires gleam Beacon-like in the gloom; Round them his comrades dream Pictures of youth and home.

  30. Taking the sunbeam for its pencil, it pictures man's own image, and the scenery of the earth and the heavens.

  31. It was a wedding present, and she had brought it with her to solace her in her exile by pictures of the home-land.

  32. You can get pictures of them on the illustrated post-cards.

  33. Papa had some beautiful books and pictures for me which he gave me before breakfast, saying he hoped they would help me pass the day pleasantly; he would be glad to make it the happiest New Year I had known yet.

  34. A book with bright pictures and short stories told very simply in words of one or two syllables.

  35. The pictures will be pleasant mementoes of this holiday season.

  36. Evelyn, "but we want all the beautiful people, so that the pictures will be beautiful.

  37. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strange looking cities and ships.

  38. The coloring of the pictures is an amazing mixture of realism and fantasy.

  39. Two years later another shepherd Dryas found in a cave sacred to the nymphs and carved with pictures of them a baby girl being nursed by a sheep.

  40. Lucian pictures too the perils that menaced any critics of the oracle, the burning of the sayings of Epicurus, the personal danger to himself.

  41. Hero and heroine are so beautiful that they can be compared only to great works of art: Chaereas resembles the pictures and statues of Achilles, Nireus, Hippolytus, Alcibiades.

  42. I have also some work for Nika: she shall fill my house with lovely pictures from top to bottom.

  43. It somewhat resembled the beautiful pictures which decorated the walls of the room.

  44. But so busy was each boy with his thoughts that he hardly noticed what at other times would have held his closest attention; for the pictures in each mind were just as unfamiliar as the landscape through which they were speeding.

  45. There were numerous fine pictures and plaster casts here and there.

  46. One is unwilling to suppose that the touching words ascribed to the two monks were a stock speech common to aged monks who have such pictures to show; but what better explanation is there?

  47. By having it just at the level of the surface we secure simultaneous pictures of what is going on both above and below the surface.

  48. Posterity is not compelled to keep our pictures or our books in existence, nor to read nor to look at them; but it is more or less obliged to have a stone building in view for an age or two.

  49. In effect, the dull pictures at Munich seem to stand well.

  50. In them he explains that the anti-Nazi sentiment in the United States press does not represent the editors, but is dictated by Jews who "control the press, the motion pictures and other organs of public opinion.

  51. Wakabayashi's business interests ranged from taking pictures of the Canal in specially chartered planes, to negotiating for manganese deposits and attempting to establish an "experimental station to grow cotton in Costa Rica.

  52. The picture of the ship had found its way safely from under Miss Browne's bed at Wilgandra across the sea to the artist who painted in leafy Fontainebleau pictures the world was pleased to stand and look at long.

  53. His colour was never equal to that of Reynolds, but his pictures have faced the time test better; the secret of the iridescent glaze that the first President of the R.

  54. There are pictures to look at in the windows, mementoes of dead artists and writers, and there is a constant stream of people, the oddest mixture to be found anywhere on earth.

  55. Prospero's cave--pictures all the way--and the masque.

  56. I must get some pictures of this same old ruin while we're up here," said Lil Artha, who carried a little pocket camera along, and was a very clever artist indeed.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pictures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.