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Examples
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Kensett, didn't fully understand what was going on then.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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He is also the constable of Kensett, but was not elected to that office.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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What we really need, of course, is a big monographic exhibition devoted to Kensett himself-but that is probably too much to hope for.
Howard Milstein Against the World! Run Over, Tough Guy Fights Back 1999
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What we really need, of course, is a big monographic exhibition devoted to Kensett himself-but that is probably too much to hope for.
Howard Milstein Against the World! Run Over, Tough Guy Fights Back 1999
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Ay, Jonathan -- and if Church or Kensett, look you, could only get at those pigments! could find the oil-and-color men that filled that order! ah me! what opaline skies! what amethystine day-breaks! what incarnadine sunsets we should have!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Kensett paints the bare stiff crags, whitened with salt, standing out of his foregrounds like the clean and hungry teeth of a wild animal, and looking hard enough to have worn out the painter's brush with their implacable enamel.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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As we watched a fine landscape by Kensett, a stream of sunshine rested a moment on the canvas, giving motion and color, as it were, to the pictured sunlight.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Bierstadt, learn the secrets of the innermost souls of the brute creation with Beard, revel in cool atmospheres and transparent waters with Kensett, paint in light with Gifford, in poetry with McEntee, or with Whittredge seek the tranquil regions of forest shade or quiet interior.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I think my friend Kensett might set his pallet here, and pitch a brief tent by Minas and the Gasperau to advantage.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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The L. 's, Curtis, 41 Tommo, 42 and Kensett are all living together, but seem to make out tolerably.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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