An irregular opening in the dull grey stone going back only a few feet, with the moisture oozing over it here and there, and the ivy and weeds adding picturesqueness to what would otherwise be commonplace; in an elevated niche on the right, a figure of the Virgin in white robes and blue sash; in front, on the left, a covered marble cistern, with taps; and innumerable crutches and candles, were all the unsuperstitious eye could see.

But, although the city has lost its medieval picturesqueness, it has gained in utility, and has become the most important educational and industrial center of northern India.

The white or red paint (the latter predominates), and the green and white jalousie, venetian, and siesta blinds, giving a picturesqueness to the scene.

Still they lend a picturesqueness to the countryside, though to me it is, as so much of the war has been, too much like the decor of a drama.

Cheese, which has been the fortune of Roquefort, has destroyed its picturesqueness.

The severity of her usual attire gave place to a negligence which enhanced her picturesqueness, and the heaving of her troubled bosom, the lifting of her wistful eyes gave her a tenderer beauty than she ever had had before.

Its comparatively tame scenes and incidents gather picturesqueness and interest under the rich lights of Carlyle's mind.

His dressa black cassock edged and buttoned with crimson, with a crimson skullcap and biretta, and a pectoral cross of goldenhanced the picturesqueness of his aspect, and as he entered the anteroom where one awaited his approach, the most Protestant knee instinctively bent.

The house, large and substantial, lacks the picturesqueness of Maxwelton.

She praised Baltimore for its beauty and health, its picturesqueness and poetry.

The Sansovini exaggerated the naïveté of the earlier Renaissance manner, and pushed its picturesqueness over into florid luxuriance or decorative detail.

From careful consideration of the weight of evidence, it seems unlikely that the breed was originally a tailless one, but the modern custom undoubtedly accentuates its picturesqueness by bringing into special prominence the rounded shaggy quarters and the characteristic bear-like gait which distinguish the Old English Sheepdog.

By the time the sapling is five or six hundred years old this spiry, feathery, juvenile habit merges into the firm, rounded dome form of middle age, which in turn takes on the eccentric picturesqueness of old age.

Without altering the picturesqueness of the original Chinese design, it had been adapted to Western ideas of comfort.

" Sikhs and Ghurkas and Rajputs and Pathans and Gharwalis, the brown-skinned tribesmen in India, have been on a strange Odyssey, bringing picturesqueness to the khaki tone of modern war.

The forlorn loneliness of this poor abode, and the perfection of its Californianness, in all the circumstances of exposure, frailness, destitution, and dirt, were enough of themselves to make it an object of interest to the not-too-busy passer; yet, to complete its pitiful picturesqueness, Pathos had bestowed a case of miniatures and a beautiful child.

No language can describe the picturesqueness of the bare rocky sides of this valley.