18 adjectives to describe quaintness

Plain almost to ugliness, yet not without some degree of severe dignity, stand these old barn-like structures of brickoccasionally of stone; bearing the mellowing touch of time, surrounded by a little overshadowed graveyard, they often add a peculiar quaintness and solemnity to the scene.

Samson's complaint of the inconveniencies of imprisonment is not wholly without verbal quaintness: I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air, imprison'd also, close and damp.

It seemed to me that an extreme quaintness characterised the domestic creatures kept for special purposes.

There are shops that have a certain suggestion and imitation of old-fashioned quaintness, and there are other buildings that have a tinge of the Scotch baronial hall style of architecture.

"The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or mason; 'and let not them blush,' says Fuller, speaking of this circumstance in his 'English Worthies,' with his usual amusing, but often expressive quaintness, 'let not them blush that have, but those that have not, a lawful calling.

We have no room left for violent catastrophes; for grotesque quaintnesses; for wizard spells.

This muddy quaintness is certainly pleasant for brief periods, when lamps are low and fire light gilds and deepens its parts.

The conceits of the metaphysical school appear in Herrick only in the form of an occasional pretty quaintness.

The fancy of some odd quaintnesses have put him clean beside his nature; he cannot be that he would, and hath lost what he was.

And truly I said that she did go the way to earn that she be flogged like any boy, and I to mean actual all that I did say, which doth something amaze me now; but, as I do know, I yet to be constant stirred inwardly by her beloved quaintness that did be alway so dainty, even when that she did mean her naughtiness to be truly to anger me.

No one makes the tour of our southern metropolis, or describes the manners of the last age, so well as Mr. Lambwith so fine, and yet so formal an airwith such vivid obscurity, with such arch piquancy, such picturesque quaintness, such smiling pathos.

The conceits of the metaphysical school appear in Herrick only in the form of an occasional pretty quaintness.

And, as the habit grew upon me thereafter of dropping in to listen to the remote, restful, unworldly quaintnesses of his philosophy, fragments, dropped here and there, built up the outline of the tragedy which had left him stranded in our little backwater of quiet.

And, as the habit grew upon me thereafter of dropping in to listen to the remote, restful, unworldly quaintnesses of his philosophy, fragments, dropped here and there, built up the outline of the tragedy which had left him stranded in our little backwater of quiet.

The sturdy Breton has through all changes of style preserved much of the rustic quaintness of his furniture, and when some three or four years ago the writer was stranded in a sailing trip up the Ranee, owing to the shallow state of the river, and had an opportunity of visiting some of the farm houses in the country district a few miles from Dinan, there were still to be seen many examples of this quaint rustic furniture.

The merciless harrying of the word "kind" at the beginning of Act v. reminds one of similar elaborate trifling in Humour out of Breath; and the amoebaean rhymes in the contention between Gemulo and Silvio (Act i.) are, in their sportive quaintness, as like Day's handiwork as they are unlike Lilly's.

"The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or mason; 'and let not them blush,' says Fuller, speaking of this circumstance in his 'English Worthies,' with his usual amusing, but often expressive quaintness, 'let not them blush that have, but those that have not, a lawful calling.

An account of the married life of these two is given by Haydn's friend Carpani, which incidentally brings up a bit of literary thievery of unusual quaintness.

18 adjectives to describe  quaintness