landskip
Americannoun
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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 Thomas Potts
Mr. Dankertz drew a landskip of it, which was engraved.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
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
An air of grottoes, of stone embellishments, arbours, and cunning recesses shed itself over the landskip.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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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