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  • But I was a gunter, so I didn't think of them as quaint low-res antiques.†   (source)
  • There's a main street in Scottsburg trying to be quaint but just looking tired.†   (source)
  • To them I must have seemed quaint, but I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.†   (source)
  • I had to ride a similar bus to school in fourth grade, and I found it neither quaint nor charming.†   (source)
  • They also gave Yang Dong strange and quaint toys that they'd made with their own hands.†   (source)
  • Quaint buildings have been restored beyond recognition, while fine old traditions have lapsed to make way for mystifying new entertainments.†   (source)
  • I saw the bed before I saw him; it dominated the room with its mahogany wood, its quaintly flowered quilt and pillows out of place in that setting.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten that the seemingly innocuous request of all European hotels to see a passport at check-in was more than a quaint formality—it was the law.†   (source)
  • They called her a "strong voice in an urban wilderness" and "a radiant beacon, shedding light on the need to curtail continued overdevelopment of our once quaint and tranquil community."†   (source)
  • The quaint concerns.†   (source)
  • The echoes of his footfalls ricochet off tall houses and rain back onto them, and he labors beneath her weight, and she is old enough to suspect that what he presents as quaint and welcoming might in truth be harrowing and strange.†   (source)
  • All these headlines can turn your mind to mush—headlines that within a year will seem most unmemorable; and if memorable, merely quaint.†   (source)
  • Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets.†   (source)
  • Lots of foot traffic passed in front of quaint little shops.†   (source)
  • His sugared almond tasted of her name which seemed so quaintly improbable that he wondered if he had remembered it correctly.†   (source)
  • There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the Galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time.†   (source)
  • To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint.†   (source)
  • I'd never known Amy to set foot in the park; despite the name, it is not remotely quaint†   (source)
  • All morning Mary Anne chattered away about how quaint the place was, how she loved the thatched roofs and naked children, the wonderful simplicity of village life.†   (source)
  • Then the enemy ship had put missiles into the guts of the hulk with warheads of what the FORCE:space people quaintly called canister shot.†   (source)
  • Port Angeles was a beautiful little tourist trap, much more polished and quaint than Forks.†   (source)
  • You can opt for the soft-core approach, describing parts and movements in a haze of breathy metaphors and heroic adverbs: he achingly stroked her quivering skiff as it rode the waves of her desire, etc. This second sort is hard to write without seeming (a) quaint, (b) squeamish, (c) hugely embarrassed, (d) inept.†   (source)
  • How quaint.†   (source)
  • We parked in the center of town, which had big jacaranda trees and was very quaint.†   (source)
  • I thought it all so quaint!†   (source)
  • At any rate, in 2004, one hundred fifty grand sounded almost quaint.†   (source)
  • Oh, what a variety of strange and poisonous flowers grew beside Annie's version of that quaint old path!†   (source)
  • His face had been blasted by close-range gunfire, in that quaint, old-fashioned way the Taliban have when they find a mortally wounded American.†   (source)
  • The storefronts all had verandas and quaint signs extending over the doors.†   (source)
  • Teens hanging out in Namche carrom parlors are more likely to be wearing jeans and Chicago Bulls Tshirts than quaint traditional robes.†   (source)
  • It must be the striking architecture, the high steep roof, the tall chimneys, the columns, the little flourishes here and there that are either quaint or sinister—I can't make up my mind.†   (source)
  • The heartbeat screen had a little electronic orange heart on it, a motif Annie found quaint, sentimental almost.†   (source)
  • The Saturday-morning children's ads that caused angry debates twenty years ago now seem almost quaint.†   (source)
  • It immediately became the property of the banks—part of what you people quaintly call free enterprise, though God knows there's nothing free about it, and nothing even remotely enterprising about the lot of you.†   (source)
  • His name becomes a fleeting statistic and his face is lost in fading photographs, the clothing quaint, the anecdotes gone.†   (source)
  • It was a quaint hideaway in a round chamber, stocked with shining rows of Tusker-beer bottles and French aperitifs and obscure African brandies.†   (source)
  • Its quaint, well-tended cemetery was his playground, a place where more than five generations of English men, women, and babies were buried, taken by typhoid, malaria, kala azar, and rarely old age.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hexter shot one of her quaint, crooked smiles at the lady from London and, with a silent gesture, bade her hearken.†   (source)
  • I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.†   (source)
  • She'd moved into a quaint apartment on Middle Street a few blocks away, in the heart of downtown.†   (source)
  • There were nearly five hundred children, all dressed in the hospital's quaint costumes.†   (source)
  • The father stood very rigid and quaint in a double-breasted suit with padded shoulders that were much too tight for him.†   (source)
  • Someday, I believe, some Yankee photographer will drive past, see it as quaint, and put a picture of it in a coffee-table book.†   (source)
  • Luke pulls up in front of a quaint old shop with the wordboulangerie written in gold on the large front window and from which the smell of freshly baked bread wafts, causing my stomach to growl hungrily.†   (source)
  • As the great gate closed behind them, Max and Connor dashed away with the others, arriving a few hundred yards later at the long stretch of quaint shops and businesses radiating from the village green.†   (source)
  • She has spent most of her life in India, and I'm sure she would be happy to tell you stories of their many quaint customs and habits.†   (source)
  • We drove down to Lake Tahoe, to a quaint marina on the California side.†   (source)
  • According to what she wrote long afterward, Louisa Catherine arrived at Quincy and almost immediately decided she liked nothing about it or its quaint ways.†   (source)
  • How quaint.†   (source)
  • Two hours in a dark tunnel made my yes-or-no struggles with the morality of sleeping with high school boys like Steve seem quaint.†   (source)
  • The houses were small and quaint-more like cottages than houses.†   (source)
  • Mortenson walked into his snug home, amazed, as he was each time he entered it, that the quaint old house belonged to him.†   (source)
  • You believe all of this is being wantonly destroyed by language barbarians among your fellow citizens, who, if you speak up, make you sound out of touch, hopelessly old-fashioned, and quaint in your concerns.†   (source)
  • Call's cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him.†   (source)
  • It was not a quaint village inn situated in a secluded nook of the countryside.†   (source)
  • It was a quaint word and somehow appealing.†   (source)
  • Sportland was located in the quaint shopping district along La Mesa Boulevard.†   (source)
  • It's real quaint and different.†   (source)
  • The church was small, quaint, picturesque.†   (source)
  • That comes out even in his rather quaint grammar.†   (source)
  • I could never stomach the flower-child twaddle of the '60s crowd, and I was ready to believe that our flag was just an old piece of cloth and that patriotism was just some quaint relic, best left behind us.†   (source)
  • Not long ago Westwood Village had been an island of quaint charm in the more turbulent sea of the city around it, a mecca for shoppers and theatergoers.†   (source)
  • Grant sets the scene, describing the quaint McLean farmhouse and the way he and Lee sat together to settle the country's fate.†   (source)
  • Who we are being so many hard facts held like candies or coins, just up one's sleeve — one's father, one's mother, all the things that might quaintly be termed one's station.†   (source)
  • Of course, that was back before you moved here, back when Ferris Beach was a quaint little fishing village and not," she paused, looked at my mother and shook her head, "well, not like it is now.†   (source)
  • I thought it necessary to update some of the words so that the religiosity and naivetZ of the time, which were genuine, would not seem too quaint to the modern ear.†   (source)
  • There was a quaint cafe across the street where, when not at the clinic, she was often seen drinking coffee at a sidewalk table.†   (source)
  • So far, it looked like a quaint Maine coastal town with white homes and forest-green shutters.†   (source)
  • After the hideous uniformity in dress of the postwar scene, especially in a man-trap like McGraw-Hill, what really was more refreshing to the eye than a little quaintness, a bit of eccentricity?†   (source)
  • Whenever I saw them tied up at the waterfront I thought of them as something peculiar to our region, quaint, something the foreigner would remark on, something not quite modern, and certainly nothing like the liners and cargo ships that berthed in our own modern docks.†   (source)
  • What a quaint notion.†   (source)
  • Which is a quaint way of saying that if he wants to change his woman he will.†   (source)
  • They liked and they marvelled at everything, most of all at the unceasing chatter of their quaint old driver, in whose speech archaic Russian forms, Tartar idioms, and local oddities of diction were punctuated with obscurities of his own invention.†   (source)
  • That quaint hasn't been virgin since she's had breasts, to my certain knowledge—and I hear that Muri is 'some dish,' if that is the American idiom.†   (source)
  • How quaint and old-fashioned can you get?†   (source)
  • Hearth stared at the nearest quaint garden wall.†   (source)
  • The quaint storefronts were replaced by buildings spray-painted with gang graffiti.†   (source)
  • Isn't she quaint, Luke would say to me, and my mother would look sly, furtive almost.†   (source)
  • They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • A hot summer day and it was all very quaint and remote.†   (source)
  • I'm old enough, I've paid my dues, it's time for me to be quaint.†   (source)
  • She would like me to be furious, and quaint.†   (source)
  • These are hand-crafted shoes from a narrow street with a quaint name in oldest London.†   (source)
  • It was quaint, like a fantasy of the 1950s.†   (source)
  • I felt like a Vulcan, studying these odd, quaint humans.†   (source)
  • The room Natalie entered was rustic and quaint.†   (source)
  • We walked up and down the quaint streets filled with novelty shops and tourists.†   (source)
  • The quaint and pretty Chapel Hill street was already busy at quarter to twelve.†   (source)
  • Would a quaint name fool us into thinking we live in pre-cancerous times?†   (source)
  • The whitewashed buildings have quaint, fading signs, and stand empty.†   (source)
  • The past isn't quaint while you're in it.†   (source)
  • And all this cold war junk is gonna be worth plenty, as quaint memorabilia.†   (source)
  • She doesn't carry her quaint little archaisms of pronunciation and wording into her writing.†   (source)
  • Beyond these South Bronx streets people may look at her and think she is a quaint-ness of ages past.†   (source)
  • Stark upheavals bring out every sort of quaint aberration by the very suddenness of their coming.†   (source)
  • We live in a neat and pleasant town near a college with a quaint name.†   (source)
  • They see us as nothing but a quaint shopping district-an odd perception if you consider the nationalities of men like Einstein, Galileo, and Newton.†   (source)
  • Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place.†   (source)
  • There was a little path of flat stones, amethyst in the night, that led up to the quaint arched wooden door.†   (source)
  • I spent the afternoons with her scrapbooks, with their clippings about teas and the visiting Fabians, and the explorers with their magic lantern shows and their accounts of quaint native customs.†   (source)
  • I had never eaten there, but Owen said it was nice enough—on the harbor, a little over-quaint with the seafood theme (lobster pots and buoys and anchors and mooring ropes were prevalent in the decor).†   (source)
  • Firstsite Harbor remains as a quaint bazaar, with descendants of the First Families selling crafts and overpriced art there.†   (source)
  • We get so involved with those aspects that the first name seems to us merely a quaint holdover from the old days, which weren't old to James.†   (source)
  • Hell, it wasn't even original, being one of two Carthage, Missouris—ours is technically North Carthage, which makes it sound like a twin city, although it's hundreds of miles from the other and the lesser of the two: a quaint little 1950s town that bloated itself into a basic midsize suburb and dubbed it progress.†   (source)
  • Quaint, he thought.†   (source)
  • Morse's drinking would go from being a quaint idiosyncrasy to something from one of those old school-guidance films, and that is not what Dexter wants.†   (source)
  • What a quaint word.†   (source)
  • For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.†   (source)
  • Maybe I am quaint.†   (source)
  • I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.†   (source)
  • What a quaint term.†   (source)
  • In New Bern, a quaint town situated at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, he stopped for lunch.†   (source)
  • It had risen nearly to its zenith and seemed to hover directly above the campus, shining a spotlight on Rowan and its quaint little doings.†   (source)
  • All that's clear today is that in the quaint city of Anderlecht in Belgium, General James Teagarten, commander of NATO, was assassinated and someone calling himself Jason Bourne has taken credit for killing this great and popular soldier.†   (source)
  • We spent our honeymoon at a quaint inn in Beaufort, and though she adored the antique canopy bed where we first made love, we stayed for less than a weekend, since I had to be back in the office on Monday.†   (source)
  • Next, quaint housekeeping issues.†   (source)
  • The Range Rover finally pulled off at a quaint, wooden signpost that read Big Sur State Park, among other things.†   (source)
  • It had the requisite quaint downtown, complete with antiques stores, art galleries, and coffee shops, and the place had more weekly festivals than seemed possible for a town of fewer than a thousand people.†   (source)
  • In one of Stephen's books, there is a story of a child with long golden ringlets called Goldilocks who one day comes to a quaint house in the woods lived in by a family of bears.†   (source)
  • A quaint idea.†   (source)
  • How quaint.†   (source)
  • Yossarian went about his business with no clothes on all the rest of that day and was still naked late the next morning when Milo, after hunting everywhere else, finally found him sitting up a tree a small distance in back of the quaint little military cemetery at which Snowden was being buried.†   (source)
  • The windows of that dining room with their splendid view of the quaint, rich Parisian street would do.†   (source)
  • I hope she sees some of her backbone in me, because without it I would have been more accepting of the words of others, of the editor who once looked me dead in the eye and told me I was not sophisticated enough to cover the Anniston, Alabama, city council, of one or two Yankee reporters who allowed that I was mildly talented in a quaint Southern way, of a high school teacher who said a boy like me ought to think about a good trade school.†   (source)
  • Instead, we turned left again and parked beside a gatehouse, a quaint cottage of grey stone and fancy white-painted gables.†   (source)
  • "Strasbourg" and so many others, circling town squares and passing quaint streets and miniaturized city blocks, until finally they were in sight of the "Spanish" border.†   (source)
  • They passed the old women's club, once a quaint meeting place but long since abandoned, and the ruins of the building seemed to encourage silence, almost as if they were in a cemetery.†   (source)
  • Scanning the documents, Max saw beautifully rendered drawings — of a village with winding, cobbled lanes and quaint little buildings and alleys.†   (source)
  • I envisioned a fishing cabin in the swamps or a quaint apartment near the beach, but to my alarm he had gotten permission from the administration for me to rent a room in the men's dorm on the campus.†   (source)
  • David's carvings upon the door and the myriad of spells now seemed a quaint design to welcome visitors who traveled the cobbled roads from the outlying farms and small settlements.†   (source)
  • The red telephone booth, its quaint panes of glass glistening in the sunlight, looked like a large dollhouse from the outside and smelled of urine on the inside.†   (source)
  • How quaint.†   (source)
  • It may be tempting to dismiss Conway's Red Top as a holdover from an earlier era, a business whose low-tech methods are quaint but obsolete.†   (source)
  • An AIVD team had snapped the picture at a quaint Italian restaurant in central Amsterdam where Margreet, having left her dreary home in Noordwijk, was waiting tables for starvation wages.†   (source)
  • And sighingly—yet light-heartedly, for with Laurella Consadine and Johnnie there was always the quaint suggestion of a little girl with a doll quite too big for her—the mother let her go.†   (source)
  • She thinks my father is quaint.†   (source)
  • We must have resembled three mathematicians so lost in their highly refined work that they haven't noticed how quaint and opaque the terminology is, how double-meaning'd.†   (source)
  • Natalie, through the fog of the drug, tried to reconstruct the evening's events—the second car in the parking garage, the wild ride into Georgetown, the quaint little French restaurant that was supposed to be her target, the bomb vest with the red stitch in the zipper.†   (source)
  • Miss Session's striving to build up an imitation lady on the sincere foundation Johnnie offered appealed less to the girl, and had therefore less effect; but she immediately responded to Stoddard's methods, tucking in to the books she returned written queries or records of perplexity, which gradually expanded into notes, expressions of her own awakened thought, and even fancies, which held from the first a quaint charm and individuality.†   (source)
  • The date was October 1994, long before she and her family had moved to Israel, but she had seen the small gray memorial at the base of a chinaberry tree along the pavement and, by chance, had once eaten in the quaint cafe directly adjacent.†   (source)
  • And over by the Library Mall members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, if that's who they were, kept turning up among the police, more or less suicidally, wearing whiteface and carrying panpipes and dressed in busker costume, quaint and ill-fitting mid-Victorian drag, with cricket caps, a dozen young men and women on the police side of the skirmish line, mimicking the gestures of the cops and getting dragged to a van and beaten.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had a phobia concerning open spaces, although the spaces at the college were mainly snug and quaint.†   (source)
  • But she only knew that the savor of it gave her an unparalleled sense of delight, a luscious and reckless and great-hearted warmth that spread downward to her toes, validating all quaint and ancient maxims as to the healing properties of wine.†   (source)
  • The speedometer said seventy-five, in quaint, runic numerals, and I was afraid to go any faster on that road, And the horn sounded again, much nearer now, three long notes, and I could hear the baying of hounds, off to the left.†   (source)
  • There was something artificial and even quaint about it: this new jail in this new settlement, all so rough and temporary-looking, in a clearing in the bush.†   (source)
  • And the jail had seemed quaint.†   (source)
  • She also knows that she has been dragooned into this outing for two purposes of display—because she is a knockout, as they say in the American movies that year, but also because by her presence, poise and language she can demonstrate to this distinguished guest, this dynamic helmsman of commerce, how fidelity to the principles of German culture and German breeding is capable of producing (and in such a quaint Slavic outback) the bewitching replica of a fraulein of whom not even the most committed racial purist in the Reich could disapprove.†   (source)
  • Sophie, who is shy enough anyway, detests being forced to perform for Durrfeld, but, smiling a twisted embarrassed smile, complies, speaking at her father's command in Swabian, then in the indolent cadences of Bavaria, now in the tones of a native of Dresden, of Frankfurt, quickly followed by the Low German sound of a Saxon from Hannover and at last—aware that the desperation shows in her own eyes—blurting out an imitation of some quaint denizen of the Schwarzwald.†   (source)
  • But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it.†   (source)
  • Despite the decline of the Catholic Church into what amounted to a half-forgotten cult tolerated because of its quaintness and isolation from the mainstream of Hegemony life, Jesuit logic had not lost its bite.†   (source)
  • To them I must have seemed quaint, but I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.†   (source)
  • This is what I have, coffee and pie, sitting in one of the purple booths, watching young people exclaim over what they think is the quaintness of the past.†   (source)
  • He had no hat on, and a bloody cloth bound around his head confined the straggling gray locks quaintly.†   (source)
  • Then he shifted to a ballad—and the mountains are full of old ballads of Scotland and England, come down from the time of the first settlers, and with local names quaintly substituted for the originals here and there.†   (source)
  • He looks quaintly secretive and prepared for anything, out walking very luxuriously on Catherine Street.†   (source)
  • Anthony Marston said suddenly: "Quaint, these things, aren't they?"†   (source)
  • "Your American terms are so quaint, so expressive," he said.†   (source)
  • Ha-ha 1 I'm compiling a notebook of quaint little words and phrases I've picked up here.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the quadrangle stood the quaint old chrome-steel statue of Our Ford.†   (source)
  • He looked appreciatively at her trim erect figure, noting her milky white skin, her black-brown eyes, with their quaint child's stare, and her jet black hair drawn back tightly from her high white forehead.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she wasn't a real savage, had been hatched out of a bottle and conditioned like any one else: so couldn't have really quaint ideas.†   (source)
  • You've known so few dyed-in-the-wool varmints in your sheltered life that my very difference holds a quaint charm for you.†   (source)
  • I was glad that Jack could know what a nice kitchen we had and that we used quaint flowered napkins instead of oil cloth on the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • He was storing up notebooks of quaint lore against an amusing old age he planned to offer himself back on his estates outside Segovia.†   (source)
  • The result is a quaint equivocation, worth observing carefully because it pictures the state of mind of a man living half in one economy and half in another and wishing to do justice to every interest.†   (source)
  • "Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about," had been his quaint answer.†   (source)
  • But I did make one rather quaint discovery—and which I could have made just as easily without leaving London.†   (source)
  • Well, what a quaint idea!†   (source)
  • From a recess in the wall he took three glasses and a quaint little bottle, also a small oriental box inlaid with differently colored woods.†   (source)
  • I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind.†   (source)
  • He loved her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love for him.†   (source)
  • " Margaret had suggested a blue and white sprigged dimity—very quaint and little-girlish, which has just come in at the store—but Lorraine thought something "less ordinary" would be better.†   (source)
  • He saw his prayer, winged with the stanch convoying winds, borne northward to the rimed quaint gabels of Toyland, into frozen merry Elfland; heard the tiny silver anvil-tones, the deeplunged laughter of the little men, the stabled cries of aerial reindeer.†   (source)
  • After the coffee and a fine we got the bill, chalked up the same as ever on a slate, that was doubtless one of the "quaint" features, paid it, shook hands, and went out.†   (source)
  • As he rose, I noticed beside him the quaint little woman with a mannish coat and brisk, decided air, who had shared my table at the restaurant.†   (source)
  • Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.†   (source)
  • Quaint.†   (source)
  • In Eugene's fantasy there burned the fixed vision of the great hands clasped across the sea, the flowering of green fields, and the developing convolutions of a faery London—mighty, elfin, old, a romantic labyrinth of ancient crowded ways, tall, leaning houses, Lucullan food and drink, and the mad imperial eyes of genius burning among the swarm of quaint originality.†   (source)
  • It was merely a quaint custom of the County that daughters only married into families who had lived in the South much longer than twenty-two years, had owned land and slaves and been addicted only to the fashionable vices during that time.†   (source)
  • Years later, when he could no longer think of the barren spiritual wilderness, the hostile and murderous intrenchment against all new life—when their cheap mythology, their legend of the charm of their manner, the aristocratic culture of their lives, the quaint sweetness of their drawl, made him writhe—when he could think of no return to their life and its swarming superstition without weariness and horror, so great was his fear of the legend, his fear of their antagonism, that he still pretended the most fanatic devotion to them, excusing his Northern residence on grounds of necessity rather than desire.†   (source)
  • A quaint idea.†   (source)
  • Fine night," he said; and his tone further acquainted Duane with Euchre's quaint humor.†   (source)
  • "Miss Hudnall—my nephew, Ory Tacks," announced Dunn, with quaint formality.†   (source)
  • Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.†   (source)
  • Florence was breezy and frank, her sister quaint and not given much to speech.†   (source)
  • To Philip the room seemed quaint and charming.†   (source)
  • "Evenin', ma'am," he said to Jane, and removed his sombrero with quaint grace.†   (source)
  • And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty.†   (source)
  • This, with her poke bonnet, gave her the look of a quaint little woman.†   (source)
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