landskip
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Miss Kathleen bid me put you here fornenst the landskip, and then leave ye.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various
I am only a flower-painter, or occasionally attempt a landskip; and leave the human figure with the subjects of history to abler artists.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
The author supposes himself viewing several pieces of historic, landskip, and portrait painting; and from thence takes occasion to represent the figures, prospects, and passions, which the artist has exhibited.
From A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Frederick Whiley Hilles
All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip.
From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by L. A. Selby-Bigge
They crossed the torrent by a stone bridge that seemed to have become a natural feature in the landskip.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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