The details he filled in whimsically, in the picturesque phraseology of the West.

Up above in the trench the disfavour was repeated in that picturesque phraseology for which Thomas is famous.

There was nothing in any modern magazine that at all resembled the delicate, pointed and picturesque phraseology of the Sieur Amadis!

Will you use your vaunted gifts to hunt down the desperate criminal, and, in your own picturesque phraseology, set your heel upon his neck?

Uncle Jesse was one of those interesting and rare people who, in the picturesque phraseology of the shore folks, "never speak but they say something."