The difficulty isquaintly indicated in a remark by Jonathan Swift.
Her manner was quaintly formal, but he fancied that there was a spice of mischief hidden behind it.
The house was old; a wide stairway with a quaintly carved balustrade of dark oak ran up one side and led to a landing, also fronted with ponderous oak rails.
There were several dishes quaintly decorated, and which had evidently something traditional in their embellishments, but about which, as I did not like to appear overcurious, I asked no questions.
The clasping and the worshipping were independent of personal ardours: quaintly mixed with semi-paternal recollections of the little 'blue butterfly' of the days at Craye.
And our world of seats oddly gained, quaintly occupied, maliciously beset, insensately envied, needs the discourse.
Sceptics among the common folk were quaintly silenced by other tales of him, being a whiff from the delirium attending any mention of his name.
A bright green ribbon round her waist, a pair of greenstone earrings put in beneath the clustering black hair, giving her a quaintly picturesque look, and Antonia was ready for the evening's jollity.
In spite of her ludicrous garb Toni looked quaintly attractive.
Some more quaintlyamusing chronicles that carry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.
One of the most beautiful studies of childhood--Rebecca's artistic, unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand put midst a circle of austere New Englanders.
His sense of humor, his prompt, quaintly spoken philosophy, these were distinctly her contribution to his fame.
So it is only another instance of his remembering, as he once quaintly put it, "the thing that didn't happen.
They were quaintly egotistical in tone, usually beginning: "My opinion for the benefit of the citizens of New Orleans," and reciting incidents and comparisons dating as far back as 1811.
He very often attempts to be humorous, and yet we do not remember a single occasion on which he has succeeded further than to be quaintly and flippantly dull.
He has left us many admirable practicable observations on what he somewhat quaintly called the Georgics of the mind, on the mental culture which tends to produce good dispositions.
The lady so quaintly imaged by a bird in the following Ballata of Poliziano is supposed to have been Monna Ippolita Leoncina of Prato, white-throated, golden-haired, and dressed in crimson silk.
It is a town of steep streets and staircases, with quaintly framed prospects, and solemn vistas opening at every turn across the lowland.
The toothed and chevron patterns of the north are quaintlyblent with rude acanthus scrolls and classical egg-mouldings.
It was quaintly shaped, and in the centre was set a small jet-black stone.
Here, to my surprise, we came upon a quaintly shaped grey stone cottage almost hidden by the trees.
As absurd, impartially considered, as the strange creatures quaintly adapted to curious environments one saw in aquaria.
The pages are perpetually brightened by quaintly humorous touches.
The thing is thrilling with life; and the little feminine conceit of wearing her black wrap is quaintly delightful.
A quaintlytrimmed box-garden occupies the cloister-court to the no small improvement of its effect.
They are usually rather of Flemish than of Italian character, generally well and quaintly drawn, and with those striking contrasts of colour on gold grounds, of which this early school was so fond.
Their entrance doorways are square-headed, quaintly cut up into a point in the centre of the lintel, and by the side of each door is a small hatch for the reception of food.
The corbels supporting the groining shafts are very quaintly carved with the story of a knight battling with lions.
His humor which is his weakest point is a thing of almost feminine perceptions butquaintly pliable, as the sense of humor in women often is, to an odd strain of peevish extravagance.
Almost in face of this is a pretty oratory of 1574, very elaborately and quaintly sculptured.
A housequaintly decorated with numerous statues of saints.
The wooden waggon roof of the church is supported on a cornice quaintly carved.
I think he saw the hatred in my eyes, when he spoke thus of my father lying stiff at a dyke back, for he lifted his hat to me quaintly as he went.
For she has a glass of water in her hand, and a rapidly clearing cloud of Spartan obstinacy on her tiny firm set mouth and quaintly squared eyebrows.
She stops beside him and looks quaintly down at him.
It is in every way elegantly and quaintly got up, the illustrations having old-fashioned elaborately-decorated borders.
It will be a sad day for Scotland when she forgets the men whose deeds are so simply and so quaintlyrecorded by one who had himself the blood of the Covenant in his veins, and whose fathers resisted unto blood.
Bruhier quaintly remarks that this custom obliged women to take good care of their husbands.
Anything more daintily, quaintly pretty could not be imagined, and the male part of the assembly would have unanimously concurred in Sir Harry Buller's 'three cheers for the queen of the anglers.
In this snug den of Walter's his character and interests were visibly and quaintly to be traced.
As a contemporary quaintly puts it, they were as ignorant as Hottentots, and as little acquainted with the decalogue as with repealed Acts of Parliament.
And our philosophic Memorialist quaintly admits that 'a new race of peaceformed native youths came on the stage, but with little literature, and a comfortless intensity of political zeal.
Dalzell was clerk to the General Assembly, and was long one of the curiosities of that strange place, for which Cockburn quaintly says he was too innocent.
All day and every day intelligent men find themselves surrounded by oceans of what is quaintly called "reading matter.
How quaintly juvenile they are, and how oddly that assumption of grave superiority sits upon their golden brows!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quaintly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broadly; humorously; monstrously; mysteriously; peculiarly; singularly
