pastoralin a sentence
pastoral as in: a pastoral scene
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Only when he coasted on the cloud, skimming over the autumnal colors of the pastoral world, only then did he realize what he hated most about Val's letter. (source)pastoral = countryside that is charmingly, simple, and serene
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"It is pastoral," she said, looking around. (source)
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Carley's memory pictures of the Adirondacks faded into pastorals; her vaunted images of European scenery changed to operetta settings.† (source)
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Chapter XII Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home In order to see Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at home, we must enter the town of St. Ogg's,—that venerable town with the red fluted roofs and the broad warehouse gables, where the black ships unlade themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces which my refined readers have doubtless become acquainted with through the medium of the best classic pastorals.† (source)
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I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother's, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals.† (source)
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"Hark at Meliboeus," snarled the noble marquis; "he's pastorally occupied too: he's shearing a Southdown.† (source)
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Contrary to the predictions of many, Pastoral China not only survived, but thrived.† (source)
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That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example: that such a genius as my Lord Bolingbroke, not more distinguished in the great scenes of business, than in all the useful and entertaining parts of learning, has not refused to be the critic of these sheets, and the patron of their writer: and that the noble author of the tragedy of "Heroic Love" has continued his partiality to me, from my writing pastorals to my attempting the Iliad.† (source)
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Myra's idea of city folks' idea of country life, the life of their pastoral hicktown ancestors — a little bit of history to take home with you.† (source)
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Come, take your flowers; Methinks I play as I have seen them do In Whitsun pastorals: sure, this robe of mine Does change my disposition.† (source)
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"There are pastoral duties—" Problems.† (source)
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Each must have assumed that the others were there for some business other than pastoral and had rudely chosen that moment to deal with it.† (source)
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We were both teachers, Sonja in the formal sense and I in the pastoral sense.† (source)
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THE ISLAND temple, built in the style of Nicholas Revett in the late 1780s, was intended as a point of interest, an eye-catching feature to enhance the pastoral ideal, and had of course no religious purpose at all.† (source)
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Now, the traditional elegy, the pastoral elegy, has historically been written for a young man, a friend of the poet, often a poet himself, who died much too young.† (source)
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But that same tape has been given to almost two hundred marital therapists, marital researchers, pastoral counselors, and graduate students in clinical psychology, as well as newlyweds, people who were recently divorced, and people who have been happily married for a long time—in other words, almost two hundred people who know a good deal more about marriage than I do—and none of them was any better than I was.† (source)
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