All 7 Uses of
quaint
in
Bleak House
- All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, hangings, glasses, even to the pincushions and scent-bottles on the dressing-tables, displayed the same quaint variety.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Or perhaps it was her being so upright and trim, though I don't think it was that, because I thought that quaintly pleasant.†
Chpt 28-30
- The alacrity with which Charley brought my bonnet and veil, and having dressed me, quaintly pinned herself into her warm shawl and made herself look like a little old woman, sufficiently expressed her readiness.†
Chpt 31-33
- There is something very touching in the earnestness of the old lady's voice and in the tremble that goes through her quaint old figure.†
Chpt 34-36
- And the broad stomacher heaves, and the quaint upright old-fashioned figure bends under its load of affectionate distress.†
Chpt 55-57
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing.†
Chpt 58-60
- He was so quaintly cheerful that I could not long be otherwise, and was almost ashamed of having been otherwise at all.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(quaint) unusual in an interesting or pleasing way -- especially when old-fashioned