Its quaintness was appealing.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There's a certain quaintness to the whole thing, like owning a rotary telephone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday Comics may be quaint yet daring | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

I have a great love for this plain quaintness of speech — it is often ludicrous, but it as often beautiful — & one who wishes to write good poetry now should read old prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 258] Reference

I think that their quaintness is a sufficient apology for the following little children's stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Old Japan] Reference

It is a sort of condensation of quaintness, that is quite without a rival even in this land of laboured and curious architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France]

We don't like to see the "quaintness" disappear from our exciting destinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined, Ruined, Mexico Is All Ruined!] Reference

But compared to this, does Alberto Gonzales 'stated "quaintness" of the Geneva Conventions seem more compassionate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Ames: D��j�� vu in a Documentary: History's First Take in The Battle of Algiers] Reference

I believe if something is well-written that it rises above any 'quaintness' of dialogue that may seem very dated today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years Ago the Classics Were Different] Reference

She appreciated it as she would have appreciated the "quaintness" of the villagers in some foreign town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gray Dawn] Reference

But where a community enhances its "quaintness" appeal by preservation values do seem to hold their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [BiggerPockets Forums] Reference

Nor is it my intention at present to glance at the hotels wherein "quaintness" is specialized, whether intentionally or no.    From Wordnik.com.  [African Camp Fires] Reference

He is a tall, thin man, with a kind of quaintness in his mode of expressing himself, which sometimes gives an air of drollery to his speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference

Of such comments upon her proceeding Miss Rodney made light; in the aspect of the rooms she found a certain 'quaintness' which decidedly pleased her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories] Reference

"quaintness," and will go in double harness with the bizness of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference

The costumes were dazzling in their brilliancy and quaintness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

English-speaking world, and applauded the excellent quaintness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Sally's idioms savoured of darky dialect and her mountain quaintness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

The one you comforted by your sweet quaintness and loving-heartedness?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

As a part of our moral slang, authenticity implies quaintness or local color.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Candidates, An Accent on Authenticity] Reference

There is a quaintness about his style that makes his writings a continuing delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rippling Rhymes] Reference

Scituate has a quaintness, a casualness, the indescribable air of a land's-end spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

Such is the price of growth in most industries -- quaintness usually cedes to dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOT JUST PEANUTS] Reference

She gave card parties, and the young people raved over the quaintness of the old-fashioned house.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference

We see an ultra Queen Anne house of to-day, and its quaintness and odd conceits attract our fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

Taliaferro wrote an "Autobiography" -- a narrative that shows all the quaintness and egotism of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference

The windows of the N. aisle contain fine old glass; the subjects are portrayed with great expression and quaintness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The language of the people of the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge mountains is filled with a quaintness of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergeant York And His People] Reference

Almost pretty, I grant you, you are -- in virtue of quaintness, delicate hands, miniature feet, but ugly, after all, and absurdly small.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The style is fascinating in its strength and picturesqueness, and there is now and then a delicious quaintness that recalls Charles Lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference

They begin with the year 1573; the quaintness of diction and the "indifferent spelling" add piquancy and remoteness to some of the entries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

If the things just mentioned are defects they are of little moment and add to the quaintness of the verses without detracting from their force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Elfie ran in and out of the rooms, delighted with the quaintness of it all, and Clare grew quite enthusiastic over the carved wood decorations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

The house next door still has its old-time doorway, but, unfortunately, one owner in the eighties spoiled its quaintness by adding a corner tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

The cries of Paris marchands early in the morning are curious enough usually, but this one exceeded in quaintness all that I had heard since my arrival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

The style is in harmony with the matter, vigorous and flowing, but naturally with less of the quaintness and richness suitable to more thoughtful and original writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

In reading it the beauty of the language and the quaintness of the figure are the real subjects of discussion, but all the time the great lesson is making its subtle appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference