picturesque
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Stonehenge is a picturesque option or any of Wiltshire's higher points like the Westbury White Horse, Cherhill White Horse, near Calne, or Heaven's Gate in Warminster.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
Actress Hayden Panettiere’s picturesque childhood home has been relisted for $3.7 million—just weeks after the “Nashville” star released an emotional memoir reflecting on the “brutal” experiences she endured as a child star.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026
The oil painting “Approaching Storm” captures the kind of picturesque scene that would get fine artist Paul Grimm work in early Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
For the past five years, both Tory and Labour governments have used a picturesque seafront hotel—the faded Metropole—to house hundreds of asylum seekers as they waited for their claims to be processed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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