" "You are not always artistic in your untruths," interrupted Etta.

"We've such a lot of packing to do," said Gloria, with an assumption of carelessness far more artistic than her mother's.

Some of the uniforms of the native armies are as picturesque and artistic as those of the papal guards at the Vatican, and on occasions of ceremony they make a brave show, but with the exception of two or three of the provinces, the native forces would be of very little value in a war.

The most beautiful of these embellishments are inscriptions, chiefly passages from the Koran and tributes of praise to "The Exalted One of the Palace" who lies buried there, worked out in Arabic and Persian characters, which are the most artistic of any language, and lend themselves gracefully to decorative purposes.

Aunt Helen's slender fingers looked artistic among some pretty fancy-work upon which she was engaged.

We could be artistic without being archaic.

It don't cost as much as wearin' socks an' neckties, an' it's more artistic like.

Obviously it is possible in our estimate of a landscape, to be drawn away from the artistic to the real beauty; from its merits as a "word," or expression, to the merits of the thing signified.

I am sure he found that my sayings balanced in the most sensitive scales of his mind; and decided I was too young to be artistic with the fine tools of untruth.