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View, natural features, landscape.
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Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.
Examples of scenery in a Sentence
His gaze took in the scenery around them.
She took in the summer scenery and sighed deeply.
I'll try my luck closer to the seashore where the scenery is as fair as the little ones I seek.
The scenery of the Wye valley, including a succession of rapids just above the town, also attracts many tourists.
In the second act there was scenery representing tombstones, there was a round hole in the canvas to represent the moon, shades were raised over the footlights, and from horns and contrabass came deep notes while many people appeared from right and left wearing black cloaks and holding things like daggers in their hands.
But the prosperity of the island depends mainly upon foreign visitors (some 30,000 annually), who are attracted by the remarkable beauty of the scenery (that of the coast being especially fine), the views of the sea and of the Bay of Naples, and the purity of the air.
He found some of his wired energy dissipating at the long walk and change of scenery despite knowing nothing good had ever come from a meeting with Sasha.
We collect the money, the customer gets to relax, enjoy this gorgeous mountain scenery and eat your fresh blueberry muffins.
The whole island is mountainous, and is remarkable for its beautiful scenery and its fertility.
In addition to the scenery, we have a million gallon hot spring pool run by the town.
The town offers more than spectacular scenery to its visitors.
The scenery here becomes bold and picturesque.
All this time the scenery was becoming more mountainous.
These elderly patrons paid their bills, didn't trash their rooms and, to a person, were breathlessly enthralled with the mountains, weather, scenery, and everything else about the beautiful mountain town of Ouray, Colorado.
The film is visually stunning, featuring gorgeous cinematography displaying the picturesque scenery and wildlife.
The island is very picturesque with rolling green hills surrounded by glorious coastal scenery.
Table Mountain and its connected hills are famous for the magnificence of their scenery.
It is a favourite winter resort, especially for visitors from England, and is situated in beautiful coast scenery.
In the Valcea department, besides many other iodine, sulphur and mud baths, there are the state-supported spas of Calimanescii, Caciulata and Govora, situated among some of the finest Carpathian scenery Most famous of all is Sinaia, the summer residence of the Court; while important springs exist at Lake Sarat, near Braila; at Slanic, in the Prahova department, where flooded and abandoned salt-mines are fitted up as baths; at the Tekir Ghiol mere, near Constantza; and at Baltzatesti (Baltate,itii), in the Neamtzu (Neamtu) department, a favourite resort of invalids from many parts of eastern Europe.
By lunch-time we had reached a viewing point at which the scenery could only be described as breathtaking.
The scenery here tells its own tale - no need for noisy chatter!
Colin Parker Tumbling clouds, wheeling gulls... You see, the scenery has a poetic effect on you!
Unquestionably one of Europe's most charming cities, Lucerne also has the added virtue of stunning lakeside and mountain scenery on its doorstep.
It has a dry and equable climate and beautiful scenery.
The scenery is in general bold and wild.
It's quite lush at this level but higher up the scenery becomes drab with a number of glacial moraines.
From the windows diners enjoy the changing moods of the Scottish scenery with a breathtaking panorama overlooking the Morar River estuary.
He was identified with the Hudson River School, and excelled in pictures of autumn scenery.
Knit goods are manufactured, but the importance of the place is due to its sulphur springs, the waters of which are used for the treatment of skin diseases, gout, rheumatism, etc., and to the tonic air and fine scenery.
The scenery is everywhere strikingly beautiful and varied, and the coral beds of the more secluded bays in its harbours are conspicuous for their exquisite colouring.
Five well-contrasted types of scenery in Derbyshire are clearly traceable to as many varieties of rock; the bleak dry uplands of the north and east, with deep-cut ravines and swift clear streams, are due to the great mass of Mountain Limestone; round the limestone boundary are the valleys with soft outlines in the Pendleside Shales; these are succeeded by the rugged moorlands, covered with heather and peat, which are due to the Millstone Grit series; eastward lies the Derbyshire Coalfield with its gently moulded grasscovered hills; southward is the more level tract of red Triassic rocks.
Many points are inaccessible, and the scenery is wild in the extreme.
The scenery in the oriental portion of the island is very beautiful, with wild mountains and tropical forests.
The scenery of the islands is picturesque, gaining beauty from the fine colouring of the sea and the rich vegetation.
The scenery in the neighbourhood is very beautiful, near the town being the district called Little Switzerland.
Three miles south, in Sussex, the village of Frant stands on a hill which is perhaps the finest of the many view-points in this district, commanding a wide prospect over some of the richest woodland scenery in England.
It passes through the most picturesque scenery in Belgium and is remarkable for its sinuous course, its length of 120 m.
Bouillon is the only town on its banks, and since it is not navigable it has escaped the contamination of manufacturing life; its valley remains an ideal specimen of sylvan scenery and medieval tranquillity.
It is separated on the south from the island of Shikoku by the Naruto channel, through which, in certain conditions of the tide, a remarkable torrential current is set up. The island is celebrated for its exquisite scenery, and also for the fact that it is traditionally reputed to have been the first of the Japanese islands created by the deities Izanagi and Izanami.
Calderwood Castle on Rotten Calder Water, near High Blantyre, is situated amid picturesque scenery.
The forest scenery much resembles that of England, with fine oaks and greensward.
South of the watershed the whole aspect of the landscape is as hideous and disappointing as scenery in Afghanistan.
Large quantities of ground mica are used in the manufacture of wall-paper, and to produce a frosted effect on toys, stage scenery, &c. Powdered mica is also used in the manufacture of paints and paper, as a lubricant, and as an absorbent of nitro-glycerine and disinfectants.
William Gilpin, in his Forest Scenery, describes a cedar which, at an age of about 118 years, had attained to a height of 53 ft.
The scenery throughout the hills is picturesque, and in many parts magnificent.
It is pleasantly situated on rising ground between two small valleys opening into that of the Dove, and the most beautiful scenery of Dovedale is not far distant.
This district affords striking contrasts of scenery, from the sheltered fields of Miranzai to the barren desolation of the salt mines.
Belts of shrubbery may be placed round the slips outside the walls; and these may in many cases, or in certain parts, be of sufficient breadth to furnish pleasant retired promenades, at the same time that they serve to mask the formality of the walled gardens, and are made to harmonize with the picturesque scenery of the pleasure ground.
The scenery about the city is remarkable.
While the greater part of western and northern Belgium is devoid of the picturesque, the Ardennes and the Fagnes districts of " Between Sambre and Meuse " and Liege contain much pleasant and some romantic scenery.