Isn't this a strange, quaint volume, to set before a king?
I recalled this quaint arrangement with a quickness born of emergency, as one that might serve me now, and speadily possessed myself of the tassel at the extremity of the controlling cord.
It was shingled from top to bottom, and the dormer windows, with their quaint panes, rendered it both stately and picturesque.
The kitchen presented a quaintand most picturesque appearance.
We saw the island of Portsea, where Dickens was born, and got a glimpse of the spires of Portsmouth as we passed; then came the Isle of Wight and the quainttown of Cowes.
At the quaint old city of Chester I was met at the "sti-shun" by the Boots of that excellent though modest hotel which stands only a block away.
I stopped overnight at that quaint and curious little inn just across from the castle entrance.
Two miles down the river is Barford, and a mile farther is Wasperton, with itsquaint old stone church.
His mother had taken as a residence a quaint house in the Impasse of the Feullantines, Paris.
Here one may see the quaint old schoolhouse where Wordsworth when a boy dangled his feet from a bench and proved his humanity by carving his initials on the seat.
In the early papers the designs were very simple and direct, often more quaint than beautiful, as in the case of the well-known Daisy paper, and depending greatly on the colouring for the attractiveness they possessed.
Many of the good old nursery jingles appear inquaint guise in the dialects.
A quaint custom at Dewsbury in Yorkshire is the ringing of the Devil’s knell on Christmas Eve.
Yes, yes, my dearest, I know you believe that, and I think it is delightfullyquaint and sweet of you.
I have always thought that 'dare' was a quaint word," says Manuel, with the lordly swagger which he kept for company.
I laughed at the quaint message; but Holmes showed unwonted seriousness.
We walked down the quaint village street with a row of pollarded elms on each side of it.
A pretty young woman in a quaint dress, which somehow harmonized with the place, came forward.
So did the quaint fellow announce his engagement to us.
Here we find some interesting traces of the della Rovere, in those quaint and significant family devices which it was their pride unceasingly to repeat.
A scarf embroidered with pearls and precious stones suspended from his neck a white cushion, whereon lay the babe in "toys of quaint apparel," which the writer attempts not to describe.
Indeed, his poetry, while sharing with coeval productions the blemishes of exuberant ornament and quaint conceits, is seldom surpassed in pathos, and his dulcet numbers reconcile us to his faults of manner.
Foolish fellows, with quaint ideas about simplicity of life, fraternity, and jollity, and old world ideals of beauty.
Here and there are quaint little temples, stone built, under the palms between the patches of cultivated ground.
There are borders of blooming chrysanthemums and China asters, and trees with quaint foliage, and flowering creepers about the house.
The hulls have a quaint dignity about them, and the carvings on their sterns are as rich as the woodwork in a Belgian cathedral.
Johnnie had not realized before how fond he had become of this quaint youngster.
The stiff, quaint formality of her opening paragraphs only served to emphasize her final frightened cry for help.
This man had been working for us some time before, and had often amused me with his quaint ways.
By the time Pepper extended his arm and drew it in, with the quaint apology, "I'm sorry I shot yer, old feller!
He was hardly darker than herself, and, to her surprise, he spoke to her inquaint broken English.
Japanese signs stood over quaint little stores, with here and there a curious tinge of Americanism.
What lovely irises, and how quaint those roses are, trained so stiffly on the old walls.
Why, Miss Lamb," Craik said with quaint politeness, "your visits are our greatest blessings!
People from the villages about Oxford have stalls there, and you see the ruddy, old-fashioned cottagers' wives, seated each one behind a fresh bank of vegetables and flowers she herself has grown at home in her quaint garden.
The quaint commingling of fancy and fact reminds us of Hannele's dreams of heaven, in Hauptmann's Hannele, where the schoolmaster is confused with the angels, and heaven and the sordid little room are somehow united.
On a high-backed elbow-chair of ancient oak sat Rita de Villabuena, pensive and anxious, her fair face and golden tresses seeming fairer and brighter from the contrast with the dark quaint carving against which they reposed.
This quaint knot of ruinous houses in a weed-grown Court was sketched at Bruges.
In close proximity to the church stands the vicarage, once the Priory; a quaint old rambling building, surrounded by magnificent old trees.
In the Balkans the various shreds of races have quaint crazy-quilt patchworks of conversational language.
The young lawyer raised his eyes, with evident effort to bring his attention from the subject in hand, and regarded the quaint face and figure of his employer.
