While they looked on, the electric spouts discharged themselves, with a series of loud explosions. The stranger stood alone, uninjured. He dropped his arms. The next moment he caught sight of the two, and stood still, waiting for them to come up. The pictorial clarity of his person grew more and more noticeable as they approached; his body seemed to be composed of some substance heavier and denser than solid matter. Tydomin looked perplexed. "He must be a Sant man. I have seen no one quite like him before.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
The story has a close similarity to that of CINDERELLA, and is supposed to be of oriental origin. Several versions of it are current in Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Wales. For some account of it see PICTORIAL BOOK OF BALLADS, ii. 153, edited by Mr. Moore.]英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
I brought help, too, in pictorial matters. Henry Irving had had little training in such matters; I had had a great deal. Judgment about colours, clothes, and lighting must be trained. I had learned from Mr. Watts, from Mr. Goodwin, and from other artists, until a sense of decorative effect had become second nature to me.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
And what a new music burst upon the world in Spenser's verse! His noble stanza, so admirably adapted to pictorial effect, has since been used by some of the greatest poets of the literature, Thomson, Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and numerous others; but none of them, except in rare instances, have drawn the music out of it which Spenser drew.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
-- St. Pollajolo: "Antonio Pollajuolo (ab. 1430-1498) was a sculptor and goldsmith, more than a painter; . .his master-work in pictorial art is the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, in the Nat. Gal., painted for the Pucci Chapel in the Church of San Sebastiano de' Servi, at Florence. `This painting', says Vasari, `has been more extolled than any other ever executed by Antonio'. It is, however, unpleasantly hard and obtrusively anatomical.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
After an absence of eight months Barnum found himself back in New York, resolved never again to be a traveling showman. Contracting with the publisher, Robert Sears, for five hundred copies of "Sear's Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible," and accepting the United States agency for the book, he opened an office at the corner of Beekman and Nassau Streets. He advertised widely, had numerous agents, and sold thousands of books, but for all that, lost money.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
All the while, your client knew that Islam prohibits any pictorial depiction of the Prophet, and he cut back on security at the exact moment he should have increased it.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》