Perhaps it would even be wise before attempting to look at anything architectural in this quaintest of old-world streets, to go from one end to the other, buying something of trifling cost, say a picture postcard, from each saleswoman.
Where the stone-work has stopped short the buttresses are roofed with the quaintest semi-circular caps, and over the clock there are two more odd-looking pepper boxes perched upon the steep slope that projects from the square belfry.
Once, in the old town of Canterbury, I stood in the street, under the Old Woman with the Clock, one of the quaintestpieces of drollery ever imagined during the Middle Ages.
They have the quaintest and most amusing ways, and they are very easily tamed.
Soon, however, he learned to walk straight, and would follow us about like a little dog, with the quaintest short steps.
Smiling and picturesque scenery everywhere, old churches too, surrounded by fine trees, and at the period of which I speak, 1842, the quaintest of costumes as well.
At the Vaudeville, which had migrated after the fire in the Rue de Chartres to the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Arnal, the inimitable, quaintest and cleverest of comic actors, was playing.
I only marvel that your countrywomen submit so tamely to the quaintest game of chance I ever played at.
In the next year appeared Ferishtah's Fancies, which exhibit some of his shrewdest cosmic sagacity, expressed in some of his quaintest and most characteristic images.
The one little inn by the Coastguard Station is, perhaps, the quaintest in all Essex.
The "Barley Mow" is assuredly the oddest and quaintest of inns on the river.
The Darwinian ideas are all already there in the germ; the embryo form of the 'Origin of Species' plays in and out on every page with the quaintest elusiveness.
Heligoland is the quaintestlittle spot imaginable, shaped like an isosceles triangle with the apex pointing northwards.
I sang in the chapel choir, and he circulated the quaintest little notes amongst us, telling us how he wished the Psalms sung.
He was the quaintest of mariners, and if I had met him leagues under the sea, I should have thought him in his proper element.
Art opposed her quaintest contrivances against the intense and violent moods of Nature, and my retirement was secure from the inroads of all except my careful guardians.
It was still afternoon, well before sunset, when we arrived at Valladolid, where one of the quaintest of our Spanish surprises awaited us.
Tarifa is perhaps the quaintest town left in the world, either in or out of Spain, but whether it is more Moorish than parts of Cordova or Seville I could not say.
He turned his head, and peering round the corner of that quaintest of stone staircases beheld a vision at sight of which he stood transfixed and astounded.
It was the quaintest meal Mademoiselle had ever known, and seemed as if it would never come to an end, for just as she was expecting a general rise the Major would cry, "What about a fresh brew of tea?
But his main recommendation appears to have been his curious capacity for saying odd things in an odd way, and in the quaintest of broad Rhenish patois, which made them sound doubly droll.
My luggage was carried by thequaintest human being to whom I have ever spoken--a dwarf.
The quaintest gentleman there was in a top hat of prehistoric date, a frock-coat which showed every seam, and sand-shoes!
The quaintest lady there was in early Victorian costume--a hat like a Cambridge pork pie and a skirt of rusty brown, that was hooped and looped up like those our mothers wore when they were young.
But the quaintest timber gables were those at Severn End, the ancient seat of the Lechmeres, some five miles to the south-west.
The main street of Dunster, with its irregular outline of houses climbing up a hill, and the quaintest old market-house at the top backed by a dense maze of foliage beyond, is exceedingly picturesque.
It was the Maharaja Kanwar, the Crown Prince, the apple of the Maharaja's eye, and one of the quaintest little bodies that ever set an Englishman disrespectfully laughing.
We are consorting with sixty of the Sahib-log in the quaintest hotel that ever you saw.
This is one of the quaintest pieces of mythological logic.
It is thequaintest old house, with low, small rooms, except on the east side, where Captain Lemuel has added two large rooms with the loveliest bay windows, which are always full of flowers and sunshine.
Isolated in the fields south of Bramber are two of the quaintest churches in the county--Coombes and Botolphs.
The building stands in what is perhaps the quietest and quaintest church square in England, possessing beyond all question the discreetest of pawnbroker's shops, marked by three brass balls that positively have charm.
You will be welcomed at Bannow House and entertained in that quaintest of all earthly dwellings, "Tintern Abbey," which was a ruin when the family moved into it more than three centuries ago.
I doubt not that many of my readers have visited the great estates of Europe, but unless they have seen Tintern Abbey in Wexford--the quaintest of all abodes in this quaint Ireland--they have still an experience before them.
But, as I have stated, squalor, dirt, and evil smells so abound that one is fairly driven off and away from this quaintest of the Irish towns.
It is thequaintest and prettiest of Eastern arcades, with the afternoon sun penetrating the bamboo blinds in shafts of light, lighting the picturesque groups of buyers and sellers squatted on the floors.
One whole series of seven is a history of the Nativity (surely the quaintest and the gayest and the tenderest oratorio that ever was written!
Filling up the rest of the tympanum, so as to make a background to the angels, there are the quaintest heads of cherubs cradled in lovely wings, carved in full relief.
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