The collector doll was quaintly dressed in a calico dress with a pinafore. From LearnThat.org.
The room was quaintly furnished. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a quaint old house. ,a quaint sense of humor. From Dictionary.com.
He must see what was going on, and he mounted the rough sides of the little heathery knoll called quaintly Ben. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
"Why, he was the best amateur" (he pronounced the word quaintly and I loved him for it) "I ever see, or ever expect to see. From Wordnik.com. [Set in Silver] Reference
Anyone who feels "collectively guilty" as B.O. so "quaintly" put it needs a REALITY CHECK!. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
Watch the gap "- it sounded more like a cheery and proud invitation than our drony, yet" quaintly "London". From Wordnik.com. [Going Underground's Blog] Reference
There were quaintly restful visits to the front line. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
"I never saw anything so quaintly pretty," Sally said. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Biologists somewhat quaintly call them exotic species. From Wordnik.com. [Attack Of the Aliens] Reference
As the Register quaintly says in its rhyming hexameters. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
The most conspicuous virtue of these quaintly engaging pictures of. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
A person quaintly enough observed, that it deafens one to look at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
This, by common consent, has been quaintly denominated the good woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Her quaintly eccentric crowd, says Tripoli, was "dorky in a good way.". From Wordnik.com. [Death in Perugia] Reference
What a crushing blow to Northern Ireland's quaintly patriotic unionists. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's North] Reference
The statues of these worthies are quaintly carved on the gateway of John's. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
For this reason alone we passed the hotel by, and hunted out the quaintly named Hotel du. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
As he drove demurely on the track, he lifted quaintly and stiffly his old hat and smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
"But," as he quaintly remarked to commiserating friend, "better have the tooth out at once.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
"From which," said Reade, quaintly, "you may conclude that Houndsditch thumbs not the annals of Samaria!". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
In these garden enclosures, also, many quaintly pretty miniature houses may be seen erected on tall poles. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
She had learnt that the girl was the daughter of an old yeoman farmer who lived on his farm, quaintly called. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
"The world," said the old man quaintly, "is full of folks who have got a big pocket-book an 'a bac'n pedigree.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
It was a fantastic festival of what the world knows as "football" but the United States quaintly calls "soccer.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters: Israel's Front Lines] Reference
What could this mysterious residence, or, as her father quaintly styled it, this substitute for a mansion be like?. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It was not easy to decide, immediately, what market price the old jewels, set in quaintly chased gold, would bring. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
The treatise on coat-armour, or 'cootarmuris,' as it is quaintly spelt, which comprises the third part of the 'Book of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The other boys were taking turns in going home and "making the acquaintance of their folks," as Larry quaintly put it. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
Going to the mantel piece, he took down a silver cup, quaintly carved, and slipped it into the young man's unwilling hand. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
The problem is compounded because what used to be quaintly prized as "" sportsmanship '' has been replaced by machomanship. From Wordnik.com. [Seasons Of Discontent] Reference
Looking on, Grace was immeasurably touched by the woodsman's quaintly respectful act of deference toward her Fairy Godmother. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Two dark-haired, brown-skinned damsels were they, in quaintly cut velvet frocks, with frillings of lace at throat and wrists. From Wordnik.com. [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference
The "Morning Advertiser," it is true, quaintly declared in praise of the "exquisite woodcuts, serious and comic," that they were. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Some few stories necessarily include a little explanation, and stories of the fable order may quaintly end with an obvious moral. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
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