Which preposition to use with picturing
Even now, when one thinks of the King Louis Philippe, with all his tall, strong, young sons (there is a well-known picture of the King on horseback with all his sons around himsplendid specimens of young manhood), it seems incredible that they are not still ruling and reigning at the Tuileries.
The last beautifully painted picture by Mr. Watts (which by the great kindness of the artist is allowed to be reproduced in this sketch) was only finished a few days before Sir Andrew was taken illfor he could only sit from eight till nine a.m.
He was an oddity, and perhaps it would be a good idea to put his picture in the paper.
As I slowly passed the telescope over the face of Europe, I pictured to myself the fat, plodding Hollanderthe patient, contemplative Germanthe ingenious, sensual Italianthe temperate Swissthe haughty, superstitious Spaniardthe sprightly, self-complacent Frenchmanthe sullen and reflecting Englishman who monopolize nearly all the science and literature of the earth, to which they bear so small a proportion.
Painters preserved their pictures on canvas, and poets sung them at eventide.
You must picture for yourself how the colonel stood before her, big, sturdy and blond, and glared down at her, and assured himself that he was very indignant; like Timanthes, the colonel's biographer prefers to draw a veil before the countenance to which art is unable to do justice.
He talked politics, and a good deal about pictures with some artists who were present.
There, immediately in front, loomed the majestic mass of Mount Ritter, with a glacier swooping down its face nearly to my feet, then curving westward and pouring its frozen flood into a dark blue lake, whose shores were bound with precipices of crystalline snow; while a deep chasm drawn between the divide and the glacier separated the massive picture from everything else.
To help his father, the artist had parted with some of his pictures at a sacrifice, and he now brought the sum thus gained.
Whether he had seen some picture as a child that had left a vague and lasting impression, or whatever the reason was, the moment he saw her he felt, with a curious mental sensation, as of something that fell into its place with a click ('Ça y est!'), that she realised some half-forgotten dream.
" "Could not your eccellenza set me about clipping the wings of the lion, or painting a better picture than Tiziano di Vecelli?
But there was the picture before her eyes of Dave and the pretty girl in seemingly great intimacy.
And I made my plan to be greater than all the rest, to paint a vast picture like the world, filled with all the glories of life.
I do not care for women or pictures without colour.
Pictures out of each haunted room, Up through the ghostly shadows loom, And gleam with a spectral light; Pictures lit with a radiant glow, And some that image such desolate woe That, weeping, you turn from the sight.
" "I suppose," said Flo, staring into his face with curious interest, "that you will introduce motion pictures into your island of Sangoa, when you return?"
" Peter Sitz ceased speaking very suddenly, and I had not the courage to ask him how those prisoners suffered; I could imagine that they came to a most horrible end, and knew that my worst picturing of it would fall far short of the reality.
So many of us carried pictures over our hearts in those days.
"What we want," said Mr. Hadley, "is a series of pictures about the Canal.
Sin Saxon stood there, in the light of the good lady's candle, making a pretty picture against the dim background of the unlighted room beyond.
But beauty and comfort do not always go together, and for calm enjoyment this Pyrenean scene had the preference; for the other was in the heart of Japan, at the tiny village of Sakurazawa, and we gazed on the picture through the open shoji,
His pace is lingering; he stops at every scene; he puts one picture after another tranquilly before us, elaborating it with care.
The herded wolves,' &c. These same 'monsters' are now pictured under three aspects.
The Good Shepherd, in the picture above the altar, had gone out to find the wandering sheep, even leaving all the others, to bring back the lost one, sorry that it had been wayward, not angrybut only sorryPearl hoped that they would look at it when they came in.
The mountains of Trinidad do not much exceed three thousand feet in height, and I could hope at most to see among them what my fancy had pictured among the serrated chines and green gorges of St. Vincent, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucia, hanging gardens compared with which those of Babylon of old must have been Cockney mounds.