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The awkward case of 'his or her'. Take the quiz. Our Favorite New Words How many do you know? Spell It Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say quaint in sign language? Examples of quaint in a Sentence Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
James Joyce : Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes. Andy Carroll : This generation sees letters as a very quaint , bygone thing that people used to do, but what they contain is some of the most extraordinary, most powerful sentiments and emotions because everything is more vibrant through the lens of warfare.
David Howman : You mold your style according the presidential requirements, i was a lawyer, a barrister who went to court every day. John Jay Chapman : If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party for at present machine and party are one , or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil.
According to Adoflsson, the tradition is nothing more than good vs. Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage. Swarms of police, gunfire, panic—all foreign to a city known for its quaint , Commonwealth style, still air, and orderliness. I followed and was soon sitting at a quaint table with chairs facing the lake. Reed moved to Bhutan when Thimphu was a quaint town of 30, Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can. It's a quaint place, and they are quaint company, and it's quite a new sensation to mix with them. I admire all that quaint , old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me. On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint , craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun. In some quaint freak of Nature, two spirits seemed to have been joined in one body, and the same frame to contain the best and the worst man of his age.
Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.
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