"Foreground" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fleecy masses, giving to the dark vapours below a deeper blackness. Above all this, the sky was intensely blue, and the stars shone down with a sharp, diamond-like lustre. Beneath the bank of clouds, yet far enough in the foreground of this picture to partly emerge from obscurity, stood, on an eminence, a white marble building, with columns of porticos, like a Grecian temple. Projected against the dark background were its classic outlines, ...
— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur
... mumbled Abbott, whose forehead was puckered with impatience. "Oh, those two? They are well set up. But what the deuce is the matter with this foreground?" taking the brushes from his teeth. "I've been hammering away at it for a week, and it does not ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... Bonington, whose technique is inspired by the same observations as their own. They find, finally, in Delacroix the frequent and very apparent application of their ideas. Notably in the famous Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, the fair woman kneeling in the foreground is painted in accordance with the principles of the division of tones: the nude back is furrowed with blue, green and yellow touches, the juxtaposition of which produces, at a certain distance, an ...
— The French Impressionists (1860-1900) • Camille Mauclair
... so? I often fancy one's general outlook would be nicer, if one had an indistinct human background and a clear foreground of unspoiled Nature. But that may ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... in the heart of a stately spacious garden that had almost made up its mind to be a park. The shallow stone basin of an old fountain, on whose wide ledge a leaden-moulded otter for ever preyed on a leaden salmon, filled a conspicuous place in the immediate foreground. Around its rim ran an inscription in Latin, warning mortal man that time flows as swiftly as water and exhorting him to make the most of his hours; after which piece of Jacobean moralising it set itself shamelessly ...
— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki
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