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Meanings of picturesque figure in English

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Usage of picturesque figure in English
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The passing of Joaquin Miller removed from California her most picturesque figure.
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
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The Englishman is not such a picturesque figure as the Irishman.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
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He was a picturesque figure and rode a very good horse.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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The most picturesque figure of the group was Margaret Fuller.
American Men of Mind
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Frémont was a picturesque figure with a great deal of personal magnetism and dash.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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The picturesque figure of John Ruskin also flits across the scene at this time.
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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The magistrate himself was not the least picturesque figure in the midst of this assembly.
The Commission in Lunacy
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He was a very striking, original and picturesque figure in the history of the Commonwealth.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Framed in the door, he was a picturesque figure.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
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From a mere picturesque figure in a vivid fairy tale, she became pathetically, poignantly human.
A Soldier of the Legion
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He had good features and made a very picturesque figure moving slowly about his work.
Tales of Chinatown
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The eyes of men as well as women admiringly followed his dark, lithe, picturesque figure.
Mavericks
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Her husband, old Professor Stowe, was a picturesque figure.
Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
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Thus exposed to the glare of the flames, the foremost woodsman presented a singularly picturesque figure.
The Last Trail
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Democritus, like most others of the early Greek thinkers, lives in tradition as a picturesque figure.
A History of Science — Volume 1
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An incongruously picturesque figure amidst smartness and glitter.
Stubble
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