picture palace
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Final identification of Case's and Acosta's diggings as the true city of Tula caused a sudden scrambling and realignment of the picture-puzzle of ancient Mexican history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life is in itself a sufficiently difficult picture-puzzle, but what chance have we if the turnip-headed censor confiscates some particularly indispensable fragment that he chooses to dislike?
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
Yet it became fascinating work; it was like piecing out some vast picture-puzzle, one that might be of some use when finished.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas
Intimations of humanity which in our own minds have lain jumbled fragmentary, like the multitudinous pieces of a shuffled picture-puzzle, are there set orderly before us, so that we see at last the perfect picture.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
One wonders what blessing those old Quaker City pilgrims had that took the place of the fascinating picture-puzzle.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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