Mr. Whittier has all the smooth melody and the pathos of the author of 'Hiawatha,' with a greater nicety of description and a quainter fancy.
Nothing could be quainter or more absurdly comical than most of the pictures, which are all carefully executed and beautifully coloured.
All the quainter in that the Western proverb is a quotation from the sacred wisdom of the East.
And of course I shall feel them quainter still," she rather ruefully subjoined, "before they've done with me!
No quainter old place did we find in our long quest for the quaint than Moreton Court.
No quainter town did we pass than Usk; it must have been much the same when the Conqueror sent his legions to overawe the Welsh tribes, save that its castle, then no doubt a lordly fortress, is now a decayed ivy-mantled ruin.
Chester itself, most antique of English towns, can hardly show quainterarchitectural shapes than many of the buildings that border this street.
I know of no quainter literature than is to be found in these very old New York papers.
Really, there is nothing quainter about it than this intimate and casual quality, such as is known in genuine, small country towns.
The girl who does this work draws her own designs and executes them, and the results are infinitely quainter and more beautiful than the things to be bought at jewelry shops.
So greatly does this tower dominate the old-fashioned city that one is in danger of forgetting that there is anything else in Boston, and though it is a place little frequented by Americans, there are few quainter towns in England.
No quainter edifice did we see in all Britain than Dunbar's Fifteenth Century town hall.
Each house was just a little quainter than the other, and Jack and I thought we were going to like Marblehead better than any that ever lived, until--we came to Salem, after Manchester and Magnolia.
The ring vibrates better if it's split; and you could see nothing quainter in Holland.
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