picturesque

For centuries it had remained unchanged; but within the last few years its picturesque appearance and situation have attracted a number of well-to-do residents, whose villas peep out from the woods around.

The house had been untenanted for some years and was threatening to moulder into a picturesque decay when the Douglases took possession of it.

He dressed in the picturesque costume worn upon grand occasions by the inhabitants of the south of France, bearing equal resemblance to the style adopted both by the Catalans and Andalusians; while La Carconte displayed the charming fashion prevalent among the women of Arles, a mode of attire borrowed equally from Greece and Arabia.

In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer.