Picture Sentence Examples

It was a picture taken at the party and the focus was on Carmen and Alex.

I saw his picture on your refrigerator.

He turned the picture this way and that, and looked at it from every side.

She didn't want the family picture, as that was the one they used in the newspaper.

Dean then brought Lydia Larkin into the picture by telling Jake Weller how she had radioed Fitzgerald with the two Denver investigators in her car, making the call from the spot where he claimed she'd be out of reception.

She found Antoine and drew his picture out.

The good minister looked at the picture for a long time.

Pumpkin looked at the picture of Randy Byrne, one leg up on a boulder, an I-own-the-world smile on his young face and Jen smiling at him with a look of love.

With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night.

Whether her being in the picture will blow everything we're doing; I just don't know.

Here, some light vial the living room picture window provided a faint outline of fixtures and furniture.

Clearly, from a "big picture" standpoint, you should stick with the Oreos.

It was the picture of a sheep, and it was drawn so well that the stranger was filled with astonishment.

One day Cimabue was painting the picture of a man's face.

At one time he painted the picture of some fruit which was so real that the birds flew down and pecked at it.

She was scared to death I'd blackmail her with the picture I took of her sweater in Dickinson Faust's Jeep.

One picture succeeded another in his imagination.

A newspaper with Allen's picture on it lay opened on the coffee table.

Dean could picture the scene.

Dulce handed Carmen a picture, her face a study of emotion, but her lips revealing nothing.

She tossed the picture in his lap again and made a face.

He picked up the picture and sighed deeply, meeting her gaze.

Lisa returned her attention to the picture, her pulse quickening.

He could picture the vampire-shrouded traveler pushing his grocery cart, happy to have the extra covering on this mountain morning.

The stranger bent over him and looked at the picture he had made on the rock.

One can almost picture him, sandwich in hand, slack-jawed in surprise.

They all reflect and absorb his rays alike, and the former make but a small part of the glorious picture which he beholds in his daily course.

One glance at the picture and his neck turned red.

Still, all the information Katie provided created a clearer picture of why Alex acted the way he did at home.

He was putting up a framed twenty dollar bill on the wall next to a picture of him with the president.

Dean could picture the messing around.

Dean could picture the meal.

Carmen took the picture from her hand and studied it.

She dropped the picture in his lap and watched his reaction.

A mental picture of Cade shopping for such items brought a smile to her lips.

Can't you just picture them swimming around on that pond, ducking their heads gracefully to feed.

This camera was positioned further away and the picture blurry, and more intermittent.

If I do, all I can picture is her trapped in some dark hole!

Certainly placing the family picture face down on the coffee table had done nothing to ease her pain.

The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.

I didn't want the silly picture anyway, and the price was right.

A picture of the tin came up on the screen.

The answers fell into place, one after another like a child's wooden puzzle, and even absent the last lingering block, the finished the picture was finally clear.

Katie stared at the picture for a long moment, then emptied her pockets on the table.

He could picture her, holding the hem of her gown, climbing onto the chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death took her hand and led her to its darkness.

I'd try to smooth over the missing picture with Miss Worthington by telling her about this here notebook, but I can't be sure she'd keep her mouth shut and not blab about it to the Quincy ladies.

He shouldn't have to draw a picture for her.

On the walls of the chief council chambers are a magnificent series of oil-paintings by Tintoretto and other less able Venetians - among them Tintoretto's masterpiece, "Bacchus and Ariadne," and his enormous picture of Paradise, the largest oil-painting in the world.

In his Letters Pliny presents us with a picture of the varied interests of a cultivated Roman gentleman.

Among the public institutions of the city should be mentioned the public library, picture gallery, botanical garden, and the institute for the making of stained glass.

He may be called the inventor of poetical satire, as he was the first to impress upon the rude inartistic medley, known to the Romans by the name of satura, that character of aggressive 1 "And so it happens that the whole life of the old man stands clearly before us, as if it were represented on a votive picture."

It contains a collection of antiquities (including some beautiful goblets) and a picture gallery which, though small, is celebrated for its fine collection of paintings by Frans Hals.

The next evening after the trial the little girl begged Ozma to allow her to look in the enchanted picture, and the Princess readily consented.

Zeb also wanted to see his home, and although he did not find anyone morning for him, the sight of Hugson's Ranch in the picture made him long to get back there.

I have a picture of old Rip in my fingers which they will never lose.

It was a picture of a mill, near a beautiful brook.

They cannot come out of the picture to harm you.

There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint.

It was suggestive somewhat as a picture in outlines.

And now a picture of a solemn meeting of the lodge presented itself to his mind.

Recent as that mental picture was, Rostopchin already felt that it had cut deep into his heart and drawn blood.

He tried to picture what would happen were he free.

If instead of imagining to ourselves commanders of genius leading the Russian army, we picture that army without any leaders, it could not have done anything but make a return movement toward Moscow, describing an arc in the direction where most provisions were to be found and where the country was richest.

She reached out and took the picture from his hand.

She held up the picture.

But picture Ben and Betsy, two city dwellers, neither owning a car.

I opined to keep Quinn and Martha out of the picture, at least at present.

As eager as Betsy and I were to pursue our testing, we were out to the picture for several weeks.

I can't even picture the bedlam making this public would cause.

We showed his picture around but the best answer was he looked familiar.

Julie from Boston reentered the picture bright one Monday morning when she accompanied Howie into the office.

Quick witted Betsy laughed, and told the man who was a frequent visitor, that it looked like a childhood picture of Howie in a Halloween costume.

I'm pretty much out of the picture, at least for the near future.

I can't picture him fighting or picking on anyone, but if I closely consider the signs, I can see his tendency to take advantage of others, if only in a self-serving way.

She paused in the hallway to gaze at a picture of Jonny and her from the previous summer.

She reached Isac's picture and stopped, looking up at Damian.

It gives me the shivers just to picture it!

Maybe the man in the picture wasn't his father.

He glanced up from the book he was reading and followed her gaze to the picture in her hand.

Her gaze caught on a picture of a beach house on the ocean, and she hesitated.

Deidre shivered, unable to move from the picture.

Someone brought her a colorful picture book.

It's the picture from the museum.

Was she willing to give life a second shot, even if Gabriel wasn't in the picture and she had no more normal friends after Wynn's betrayal?

The officer stared at her then held up an ID card with the boy's picture.

Head pulsing, she retreated to the kitchen and painkillers, staring at a picture drawn by a kid, probably Toby, on the table before her.

Frustrated, she searched the Internet for Dr. Williams until she found the eminent neurologist, whose picture she recognized.

Yes, it was his picture and yes, his clinic had been located in the same place it was now.

His multimillionaire father's picture was on the wall, and he owned two dozen restaurants in the Annapolis area, including this one.

One human is nothing to him in his version of the big picture, Sasha continued.

Come, I will show you a picture to where you must take the portal through the shadow world.

Comfortable in the plush office chair, she propped her feet up on her desk and continued to sketch until the picture began to look as she wanted it to.

A'Ran wasn't as controlling as Romas, from what she knew of him, and she couldn't help feeling as drawn to the picture in front of her as she was to the man himself.

It brings the authorities into the picture in case Shipton does show up and causes trouble.

Dean tried to picture the bustling town of a century past, at one time home to a dozen saloons, four restaurants, a newspaper, nearly three hundred houses and more than a thousand inhabitants.

I get the picture.

Fred and his juvenile helpers had located a picture of Reverend Martin and his wife in an old museum collection of early Ouray papers and photos.

Fred reached for the picture but Claire held on to it.

There is no indication whatsoever he cares a flip about that picture.

I just know I don't have the damned picture!

I gotta bite the bullet and go see Miss Worthington, with my hat in hand, and explain how I misplaced that picture she kindly lent me.

I found these when I was searching for the picture of Reverend and Mrs. Martin.

By the way, she's a bit peeved about the picture.

Cynthia asked I knew the picture Mr. O'Connor had wasn't Annie Quincy.

But the picture is too stuffy.

Does Claire have the museum's picture of Rev. Martin and his wife?

All that Dean could picture in his mind's eye was Annie Quincy, plying her despised trade in a darkened room.

I got a nice strong feeling they're blocking me out of the picture.

She paused, and he could picture her biting her lip.

He could now picture how Jerome Shipton might have caused his own fall.

All I was supposed to do was take his damned picture, just because some jerk didn't believe he'd been up here and done it!

In his mind's eye Dean could picture climbers rappelling downward in great lunges, covering many feet in long swings, reaching the bottom in but a few mad leaps into space.

He forced the picture from his mind and leaned backward, testing the rope against his weight.

This would make a hell of a picture.

It was painful to picture her there.

As he plucked the letter out, a picture fell on the table, face down.

He leaned back in his chair, the letter forgotten as he studied the girl in the picture.

He tossed the picture on the desk and leaned forward to pick up the letter.

I sure can't picture him bungee jumping.

She studied the picture more closely.

Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.

He is remembered through the Creevey Papers, published in 1903 under the editorship of Sir Herbert Maxwell, which, consisting partly of Creevey's own journals and partly of correspondence, give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian era, and are characterized by an almost Pepysian outspokenness.

Stadel in 1816, contains a picture gallery and a cabinet of engravings extremely rich in works of German art.

Vicarious interest, however, attaches to the productions of the Mito School on account of the political influence they exercised in rehabilitating the nations respect for the throne by unveiling the picture of an epoch prior to, the usurpations of military feudalism.

Her language is graceful and natural, her sentiments are refined and sober; and, as Mr Aston well says, her story flows on easily from one scene of real life to another, giving us a varied and minutely detailed picture of life and society in KiOto, such as we possess for no other country at the same period.

Undesignedly it conveys a wonderfully realistic picture of aristocratic life and social ethics in KiOto at the beginning of the 11th century.

The result is that the picture has no blank reverse.

Microscopic accuracy has to be attained in cutting out the space for the insertion of the design, and while the latter must be soldered firmly in its place, not the slightest trace of solder or the least sign of junction must be discernible between the metal of the inserted picture and that of the field in which it is inserted.

A procesi resembling maze-gane, but less fortuitous, is shibuichi-dshi (combined shibuichi), which involves beating together two kinds of shibuichi and then adding a third variety, after which the details of the picture are I worked in as in the case of maze-gane.

The design is painted on the fabric, after which the latter is steamed, and the picture is ultimately fixed by methods which are kept secret.

When the velvet comes to him, it already carries a colored picture permanently fixed by the yzen process, but the wires have not been withdrawn.

Formerly the embroiderer was content to produce a pattern with his needle, now he paints a picture.

The makie-shi may be said to paint a picture on the surface of the already lacquered object.

His first Salon picture, "Hamlet et le Roi," was hung in 1869, and he became at once one of the recognized modern masters in France.

His influence was enhanced by his personal appearance, which was so striking as to earn him the name of "Jupiter Carlyle"; and his autobiography (published 1860), though written in his closing years and not extending beyond the year 1770, is abundantly interesting as a picture of Scottish life, social and ecclesiastical, in the 18th century.

The one may regard it as a mere image, picture or representation of the higher being, void in itself of value or power.

It is to him, like the photograph hung on a wall of one we love, cherished as a picture and no more.

In the history of human religions can we trace, as it were, a law of transition from sacred stock and stone up to picture and image?

It is felt that if you have got a picture of any one, you have some power of harming him through it; you can bind or loose him, just as you can a Djinn whose name you have somehow learned.

It is as dangerous for your enemy to have a picture of you as for him to know your name.

There is perpetual action and reaction between picture and myth; and a legislator desiring to purify and raise his countrymen's religion must devote no less attention to their plastic art than to their hymnology.

In the same building is the museum, which contains a picture gallery, a numismatic cabinet, and a collection of specimens of natural history.

And a Spanish adventurer destroyed the picture records which were found in the pueblo of Montezuma.

About the power with which this picture of domestic immorality is presented there can be no question.

This picture of affairs is drawn from later times, and the sympathies of the poet are generally with the rebels against the monarchy.

In appearance the town is quaint and romantic, presenting almost as faithful a picture of a town of the early middle ages as Nuremberg does of the later.

The infinite God is the all; the world of independent objects is the result of reflection or self-consciousness, by which the infinite unity is broken up. God is thus over and above the distinction of subject and object; our knowledge is but a reflex or picture of the infinite essence.

Besides a good picture gallery in the Ratshof, and the 13thcentury church of St John, Yuriev possesses a university, with an observatory, an art museum, a botanical garden and a library of 250,000 volumes, which are housed in a restored portion of the cathedral, burned down in 1624.

As a preliminary to examining further into the nature of molecular motion and the differences of character of this motion, let us try to picture the state of things which would exist in a mass of solid matter in which all the molecules are imagined to be at rest relatively to one another.

The popular revolutionary tune of Spain, the "himno de Riego," is named after him, and his picture is hung in the Cortes, but he was a poor creature, and a bad example of the light-headed military agitators who have caused Spain much misery.

It may well be that his picture is too bright, and that in his obvious anxiety to prove the needlessness of an ecclesiastical revolution he has gone to the opposite extreme from the Protestants.

The picture is regarded as the masterpiece of Lucas Cranach, who lived for a time at Weimar, in the Briick'sches Haus on the market-place.

The picture exactly suited the temper of the times, and was an immense success.

The success of his sketch for the picture of the "Oath of the Tennis Court," and his pronounced republicanism, secured David's election to the Convention in September 1792, by the Section du Museum, and he quickly distinguished himself by the defence of two French artists in Rome who had fallen into the merciless hands of the Inquisition.

When the picture was done, the Saviour was found to be another Cato.

Herberstein describes the colour of the aurochs as black, and this is confirmed by another old picture of the animal.

The biblical picture of the Sabaean kingdom is confirmed and supplemented by the Assyrian inscriptions.

On the other hand, it is of distinct value for the history of its time, and presents a clear picture of the spirit of the age.

No better picture can be obtained of its overwhelming economic impoverishment than by studying the figures which show the decline in the crop returns for Austria, and taking into account the fact that imports from Hungary and the territories under military occupation naturally fell far below the proportion of foodstuffs formerly imported.

If these situations can with difficulty find a place in our picture of Solomon's might, it is clear that some of them form the natural introduction to the subsequent history, when his death brought internal discontent to a head, when the north under Jeroboam refused allegiance to the south, and when the divided monarchy enters upon its eventful career by the side of the independent states of Edom, Damascus and Phoenicia.

It is impossible not to be struck with the growing development of the Israelite tribes after the invasion of Palestine, their strong position under David, the sudden expansion of the Hebrew monarchy under Solomon, and the subsequent slow decay, and this, indeed, is the picture as it presented itself 'to the last writers who found in the glories of the past both consolation for the present and grounds for future hopes.

Assuming this writing to be the work of Hippolytus, the information given in it as to the author and his times can be combined with other traditional dates to form a tolerably clear picture.

The picture of Studite life is the picture of normal Greek and Slavonic monachism to this day.

On the hills above the town is situated the church and abbey of the Madonna de Montallegro, whose miraculous picture attracts pilgrims from all parts of Italy.

Las Casas has drawn a terrible picture of the oppression he strove in vain to prevent.

In the same building there is also a picture gallery, in which is Raphael's cartoon for his fresco the "School of Athens" in the Vatican.

The picture gallery of the Brera, one of the finest in Italy, occupies an imposing palace with a good courtyard by Ricchini.

In the morning, when he looked at the picture, he saw a fly on the man's nose.

So he painted a beautiful picture which seemed to be covered with a curtain.

Then he thought what a pretty picture might be made of his sister's sweet face and little hands.

As often as he touched the charcoal to the smooth board, the picture grew.

Teacher sends her kind remembrances, and I send you with my picture my dear love.

We had Helen's picture taken with a fuzzy, red-eyed little poodle, who got himself into my lady's good graces by tricks and cunning devices known only to dogs with an instinct for getting what they want.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.

But with Princess Mary, to whom they were trying to get him engaged, he could never picture anything of future married life.

His gaze lingered on a picture of Deidre on one wall.

She even left his picture on her nightstand – a final insult that still stung.

Retrieving the glass of grape sparkly, he picked up the picture and leaned back in the chair.

There he sat for a while, sipping the juice while he studied the picture again.

He tossed the picture back on the table and drained the glass.

Retracing his steps to the office, he retrieved the picture.

Striding back to the kitchen, he deliberately removed the caduceus magnet and centered the picture on the refrigerator door – eye level.

He moved the magnet and plucked the picture from the door.

Gerald stood and grabbed the picture from the refrigerator again.

Alex reached over and snatched the picture from his hand, tucking it into his shirt pocket.

Tucking the picture in his shirt pocket, he left the apartment and drove straight to the stable.

She wished she could share Katie's faith in her brother, but the only picture she could summons was a short, pale, overweight man with more brains for business than aptitude in mechanics.

Why that picture settled into her brain, she couldn't say.

The only picture Katie had of her family was an old family photo.

Your picture doesn't do you justice.

I guess he couldn't picture himself in my old jalopy.

And by the way, where did he see a picture of me?

I sent him a picture of you.

I thought you were going to throw that picture away.

If you wanted to send him a picture of me...

Anyway, that picture wasn't so bad.

At least he noticed there was a goat in the picture.

Reminding herself that Alex had made no commitment, she still couldn't put the picture of him opening the car door for Lori out of her mind.

Alex was interested in Lori, so he was out of the picture anyway.

And it had been Katie who sent him that picture - to lure him up here?

When she sent me the picture, I had to come see for myself.

Was that all he saw in the picture?

She pointed at a picture where Alex and Carmen were half hidden behind another couple.

Carmen glanced at the picture and shrugged.

The picture was the last straw.

Alex retrieved Carmen's picture from the desk and gazed at it, answering Gerald absently.

Alex lifted his gaze from the picture and regarded Gerald reflectively.

Alex gave up trying to fit the picture into the gap in the box and laid it on top of it.

After he left, Alex picked up the picture and sat down in the plush office chair for the last time.

Leaning back, he studied the picture.

More than likely their marriage would be strained at times, but he couldn't picture it ever being dull.

He stood and put the picture on top of the box.

He put the box behind the seat in the truck and climbed in, laying the picture beside him.

She didn't look at him or the picture.

His gaze lingered on the picture of Lana.

It was a recent picture, and she was smiling, her dark eyes dancing.

Charlie's gaze was amused, though he said nothing of Brady's long look at the picture.

Brady could picture the politician glowering at the three men he towered over.

The first picture was of a young man dressed in a suit, looking as if he'd rather be anywhere else.

Next to it was a full-face picture of Cynthia Byrne.

Dean was left standing there, Cynthia Byrne's picture in hand, a report in another.

Dean replaced the picture.

That's pretty much the picture the local office gave me.

It contained 78 dollars, a half-dozen cred­it cards, a few business cards and two pictures, one a duplicate of the desktop photo of Cynthia Byrne and the other a grade school picture Dean assumed to be of Byrne's son, Randy.

Much later, in the darkest part of the night, Dean's mind was creating picture stories to amuse itself while his body lay in frozen and unmoving slumber like a fallen mannequin.

He could picture her sitting there, in her wraparound paisley with the torn-out hem.

Just as quickly, a picture of Cynthia Byrne began crowding his mind.

He included a picture of Jeffrey Byrne, recently forward­ed from World Wide's personnel department.

Dean wished he'd brought the picture of Jeffrey Byrne that World Wide had recently sent but it remained in the case file at the office.

Dean asked if he sent Burgess a picture of the man, if he could try and identify it.

The local FBI had stepped into the picture and hustled action on the body, tentatively identified as Billie Wassermann—perhaps on an alphabetical basis only.

I haven't heard from the Burgess fellow yet on the picture of Byrne's you sent him.

I got that picture you sent me.

Dean reiterated the obvious—Burgess was less than positive and the picture he sort-of identified was years old.

The guy said the face looked familiar but it's a big store, there's lots of clerks and it's an old picture.

Could she at least ID him if she saw a picture?

He could still picture Ralph slowly turning, the flies beginning to gather.

She grabbed the closest object, a brass paperweight, and hurled it at him, bouncing it off a picture of her shaking hands with the late governor, sending glass flying.

I managed to push the picture of Byrne in his face and he says the guy didn't look nothing like that and I should get lost.

Complicating the picture was Baratto's tip to the mob—prob­ably via Arthur Atherton—that Byrne might be involved with the missing money.

Fred asked as he peeked behind a picture.

They had considered showing Jeffrey Byrne's picture to some of the bike tour workers, especially those volunteers manning the frequent rest stops where every biker would pass sooner or later.

If it comes down to it and we need an ID later in the week, I can locate the Greek god guy and show him the picture, but I didn't want to take the chance this early.

I can't even picture Jeff doing something stupid like that.

Suddenly facts fell into place, previously homeless happenings began making sense, and a picture arranged itself in Dean's mind.

Dean tried to picture Byrne from his photograph but nothing came to mind.

When I considered it might not be Byrne who rented that apartment in Scranton, I began to wonder how come you identified him from his picture.

When he left me, I don't think he cared what happened to the money as long as he wasn't part of the picture.

I could picture him bronc-busting.

He told her to stay away from his house, but he didn't say anything about hers, so when she needed a picture that was in her house, she decided to make a quick trip over and get it.

She followed the plan, had the picture in-hand and was locking the door to the house when Brutus wandered up with a bloody muzzle.

Leaving the picture and her purse in the car, she decided to look around and see if there was a carcass.

I went by the house to pick up a picture and Brutus came to the house with blood on his muzzle.

You're intelligent and always have the entire picture in perspective.

The picture he painted was incredibly clear.

He had taken her favorite picture of her parents to an artist and had a painting made that matched the one of his parents.

He protected your picture as if it was his personal property.

She picked up a picture of Carmen & Alex and pointed to Alex.

He glanced up at their picture over the mantle, and then at the painting he had given her of her parents.

I was trying to straighten that picture on the wall.

She understands the bigger picture and does what she must.

Laurencio was taking her picture.

She hoped they took her picture and left her alone.

Determined to swap it out for a picture of a horse or something bland, Jessi poured herself another cup of coffee and snatched the iPad, settling on the couch within view of the porch.

Jessi stared at the picture, a chill working through her.

The picture itself rendered her speechless.

He reached back to grab the iPad and clicked the picture open.

Xander, it's a humiliating picture!

She waited for him to go to his room to change before reclaiming the iPad with the goal of deleting that damn picture.

She almost asked him if she could have her picture taken with him.

The iPad was open, the offending picture front and center.

Jessi twisted, unable to see the picture.

She jumped and glanced down, spotting the picture Ashley had printed and posted all over the apartment.

Jonny hadn't had the ability to lead or commit evil or balance Damian, when Xander and Jenn entered the picture.

His gaze settled on a picture above the television.

Xander replaced the phone, trying to put the bigger picture together of what was going on.

The museum of art comprises a picture gallery, a collection of casts of Thorvaldsen's works and a cabinet of engravings.

Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed "abilities seldom to be matched"; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.

The rival philosopher, who believes water to be continuous and without spaces between its particles, has a greater difficulty in accounting for the disappearance of the sugar; he would probably say that the sugar, and the water also, had ceased to exist, and that a new continuous substance had been formed from them, but he could offer no picture of how this change had taken place.

Occasionally, however, he appears to hold a brief for the defence, and, though the picture is comparatively true, this Life (1871) should be read with caution.

On her death in 1 754, he occupied himself in collecting together all the letters that had passed between them, which, we are told, he transcribed twice over under the title of "The Picture of Artless Love."

The palace contains a picture gallery and collections of natural history and antiquities, and in front of it are two monumental fountains and a monument to the emperor William I.

The noble buildings, contrasting strangely with the wharves adjacent and opposite to it, make a striking picture, standing on the low river-bank with a background formed by the wooded elevation of Greenwich Park.

This famous picture is certainly biassed.

Another MS. of the same century has a picture - crude, but spirited - which brings us into close touch with the existing game.

In this picture three men are represented as having played a bowl, while the fourth is in the act of delivering his bowl.

The picture given of Jerusalemite morals is an appalling one.

Victor Cousin has devoted four volumes to her, which, though immensely diffuse, give a vivid picture of her time.

The modern Persians call this place Nakshi Rustam (" the picture of Rustam ") from the Sassanian reliefs beneath the opening, which they take to be a representation of the mythical hero Rustam.

This terminates in a long spike thickly studded with white blossoms. The grass-tree gives as distinct a character to an Australian picture as the agave and cactus do to the Mexican landscape.

Of still greater importance for the history of Napoleon are Fain's Memoires, which were published posthumously in 1908; they relate more particularly to the last five years of the empire, and give a detailed picture of the emperor at work on his correspondence among his confidential secretaries.

His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends, give a singularly interesting and vivid picture of life in Paris in the time of the directory.

Camille Lemonnier has given in one of his Causeries a striking picture of this faded scene of former greatness, now a solitude in which the few residents seem spectres rather than living figures.

In the Korn apparatus the light from a Nernst electric lamp is concentrated to a point by means of a lens on the original picture, which is wound on a glass cylinder in the shape of a transparent photographic film.

They teach the inferior but working part of our intellect, the " Understanding," that its picture of sensuous reality envisaged in time and space must be as fully articulated as is possible - as much differentiated into detail, and as perfectly integrated again into unity and system.

The islands are briefly noticed by Marco Polo, who probably saw without visiting them, under the name Angamanain, seemingly an Arabic dual, "The two Angamans," with the exaggerated but not unnatural picture of the natives, long current, as dog-faced Anthropophagi.

The principal modern monument to the poet's memory in Stratford is the Shakespeare Memorial, a semi-Gothic building of brick, stone and timber, erected in 1877 to contain a theatre, picture gallery and library.

After his release Wakefield seemed disposed for a while to turn his attention to social questions at home, and produced a tract on the Punishment of Death, with a terribly graphic picture of the condemned sermon in Newgate, and another on incendiarism in the rural districts, with an equally powerful exhibition of the degraded condition of the agricultural labourer.

Sofia in Padua, a Madonna picture of exceptional and recognized excellence.

It was painted in tempera about 1495, in commemoration of the battle of Fornovo, which Ginfrancesco Gonzaga found it convenient to represent to his lieges as an Italian victory, though in fact it had been a French victory; the church which originally housed the picture was built from Mantegna's own design.

It is perhaps less wonderful that this characteristic should have been left out in a picture of the Normans in Apulia and Sicily than if it had been left out in a picture of the Normans in Normandy and England.

Mr English, one of his secretaries, has furnished a picture of him at this period seated in a study lined on two sides with books and darkened by green screens and curtains of blue muslin, which required readjustment with almost every cloud that passed across the sky.

From the head of Glen Derry, with its blasted trees, the picture of desolation, it becomes more toilsome, but is partly repaid by the view of the remarkable columnar cliffs of Corrie Etchachan.

A small wooden church, erected by the monk Sergius, and afterwards burned (1391) by the Tatars, stood on the site now occupied by the cathedral of the Trinity, which was built in 1422, and contains the relics of Sergius, as well as ecclesiastic treasures of priceless value and a holy picture which has frequently been brought into requisition in Russian campaigns.

This age, with its regular maritime intercourse between the Aegean settlements, Phoenicia and the Delta, and with lines of caravans connecting Babylonia, North Syria, Arabia and Egypt, presents a remarkable picture of life and activity, in the centre of which lies Palestine, with here and there Egyptian colonies and some traces of Egyptian cults.

The commercial activity of the king and the picture of intercourse and wealth are quite in accordance with what is known of the ancient monarchies, and could already be illustrated from the Amarna age.

But another side of the picture shows the domestic intrigues which darkened the last days of David.

Priesthoods, whose traditions connect them with the south, are subordinated; the ecclesiastical records are re-shaped or re-adjusted; and a picture is presented of hierarchical jealousies and rivalries which (it was thought) were settled once and for all in the days of the exodus from Egypt.

Such hints as these indicate the impossibility of recovering a complete picture of the Jews during the sovereignty of the Greeks, which the Talmudists regard as the dark age, best left in oblivion.

Father Braun (Liturgische Gewandung, p. 457) gives a picture of a seal of Charles IV.

From him we gain a most pleasing picture of life at the monastery.

The incident is a valuable picture of crude ideas of Yahweh, and, if nothing else were needed, it was sufficient to involve David in a feud with the Benjamites.

The severe impartiality of the sacred historian has concealed no feature in this dark picture, - the brutal passion of Amnon, the shameless counsel of the wily Jonadab, the " black scowl " 1 that rested on the face of Absalom through two long years of meditated revenge, the panic of the court when the blow was struck and Amnon was assassinated in the midst of his brethren.

The world being a picture of the Will is therefore similarly unhappy.

In it he drew a picture of the general ruin of all classes of Frenchmen, caused by the bad economic regime.

Biagio and the municipal picture gallery also contain works by him.

This Egyptian picture was said to date from the time of the third or fourth dynasty, some three thousand years before the Christian era.

Of this kind of retribution Scott in The Abbot gives a vivid picture, the Protestants interrupting the mass celebrated by the trembling remnant of the monks in the ruined abbey church, and insisting on substituting the traditional Feast of Fools.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars (796), an epistle to David (Charlemagne) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.