The term is admirably descriptive of his romantic, lyrical verse.

All merely descriptive poetry can do is to give a dead catalogueto kill the butterfly, and then write a monograph on it.

He has been thus engaged for several years, and as the act of Congress alone governs now in this city, in business of this sort, which renders it easy for the recovery of such property, he invites post paid communications to him, inclosing a fee of $20 in each case, and a power of Attorney minutely descriptive of the party absconded, and if in the northern region, he, or she will soon be had.

Chapters 50 and 53 of the pseudo-Isaiah remained; which contain many phrases so aptly descriptive of the sufferings of Christ, and so closely knit up with our earliest devotional associations, that they were the very last link of my chain that snapt.

It is a purely descriptive poem of great vivacity and vividness, easy to read, and true to nature.

If the ominous title applies to an abstraction, and if the event so vividly introduced is but a dramatical representation of some phase in the mystery of iniquity, the spiritual inferences are just what they would be were the words respectively descriptive of an angel of sin, and of his utter and terrible overthrow.

But he was not a "quitter," which word, though objectionable as slang, is most satisfactorily descriptive.

[Footnote 17: specially descriptive of the willow.]

The title, "A Library of the World's Best Literature," is strictly descriptive.

The following memorandum, touchingly descriptive of her illness and death, was penned by her bereaved husband, probably soon after her decease.

For the modern age no name is perhaps more adequately descriptive than the "Age of Energy," the age in which our entire fabric of civilization rests upon the utilization of the energies of nature for the needs of humanity, and to an extent little appreciated by those who have not considered the matter from this point of view.

Now and then you can hear an Arab singing a desert song, not very musical but utterly descriptive of the life he leads.

Your extract from a favorite poet is charmingly descriptive; but is it not difficult to ascertain what we can pronounce "an elegant sufficiency"?

No course of reading could have supplied materials for a narration so faithfully descriptive of the accidents to which an AEgean pirate is exposed as The Corsair.

The first is from Mount Vernon, July 30, '92, soon after he had left Philadelphia, and is familiarly descriptive of his journey homewards.