| There's a quaintness in these tableaux that's at first charming but eventually slides into overkill through sheer grating repetition. |
| There was no flaunting vice, no rowdiness, no drunkenness, only the squalor of an Oriental city without its quaintness and colour. |
| The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain. |
| I smiled at her quaintness and made to follow her, but cumshaw interposed quickly. |
| The people are so nice, the city so pleasant and full of history, but what I see so far is that it has English quaintness yet all the luxuries we are used to in America. |
| That custom lacks the quaintness of lobola and in my world, it would be called kidnapping. |
