landskip
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As I have heard of some painters that have drawn the sky in an huge large landskip, so lively that the birds have flown against it, thinking it free air, and so have fallen down.
From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, fl. 1612-1618
An air of grottoes, of stone embellishments, arbours, and cunning recesses shed itself over the landskip.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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
Landscape, earlier landskip, has the suffix which in English would be -ship.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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