Example Sentences

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Mitcham is at present beyond these brick and mortar tentacles, and is grouped not unpicturesquely about a village green and along the road to the Wandle.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

Gentle of manner, slouching of gait, soft-voiced, unpicturesquely clothed; not one of them presented to the eye any witness of the desperate records they had earned.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

Instantly a vision of a somewhat dilapidated house, standing not unpicturesquely among ill-kept fields, leaped to my mind.

From Adventures in Friendship by Grayson, David

The old aristocracy of the countryside was unpicturesquely decayed.

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Sun-bonnets shading merry faces, flushed with business; blue flannel bathing-suits draping very unpicturesquely the persons, bare feet stained with mud,—baskets full of the delicate fish they had been catching.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan