picturesqueness

No very highly imaginative mind is surely necessary to conjure up a scene of wonderful picturesqueness from the foregoing.

A Tour in Mongolia 1920

"Tony," she said, "the quality which I admire most in a donkey-driver, besides truthfulness and picturesqueness, is imagination."

Jerry Junior 1907

The public buildings and temples, though they bear magnificent names, are extremely ugly, and are the subjects of slow but manifest decay, while the streets of shops exceed in picturesqueness everything I have ever seen.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

It was like an old-time Indian council, but the picturesqueness was a good deal spoiled by the gingham shirts they wore, and the ill-fitting coats and trousers from the store.

The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

Our knights are not weighted down with heavy armor, but much more appropriately attired, for a day like this, in costumes that recall the picturesqueness, without the discomfort, of the old knightly harness.

The House Behind the Cedars 1900

Our knights are not weighted down with heavy armor, but much more appropriately attired, for a day like this, in costumes that recall the picturesqueness, without the discomfort, of the old knightly harness.

The House Behind the Cedars 1895

The Thirty-Years War abounds with what may be called picturesqueness in its events, and still more in the condition of the people who carried it on.

The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838

There is absolutely no question but that the countryside of England is unequalled for that unique variety of picturesqueness which is characteristic of the land, but it lacks the grandeur that one finds in France, or indeed in most countries of

The Automobilist Abroad

Neither is it without a degree and kind of picturesqueness, both in its nearness and in the distance, when a blue gleam from its surface, among the green meadows and woods, seems like an open eye in Earth's countenance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

THE chronicles of history record that in most wars some figure, through intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action, has raised himself above his fellows and achieved a picturesqueness which is commonly associated only with characters of fiction.

The memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, 1917