Quaintest

The young Lord invoked on this occasion the celebrity's prized judgment of a special literary case; and Berridge could take the whole manner of it for one of the "quaintest" little acts displayed to his amused eyes, up to now, on the stage of European society -- albeit these eyes were quite aware, in general, of missing everywhere no more of the human scene than possible, and of having of late been particularly awake to the large extensions of it spread before him (since so he could but fondly read his fate) under the omen of his prodigious "hit." ❋ Henry James (1879)

The film opens with what will end up being the quaintest of all the battle sequences in the film, a skirmish between a military escort and an enemy with far more advanced technology at its disposal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's got the quaintest grin on his face and I know he's getting excited about it. ❋ Jason W. Stuart (2011)

The rules are a living document, constantly shifting to accomodate new concepts. in 2007, William Gibson said "One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real." ❋ Readingthedark (2010)

But since opening in 2007, Tutto il Giorno has ingested the seaside town, perhaps the quaintest Hampton, with a touch (and the colors) of Rome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tutto il Giorno has brought the touch (and the colors) of Rome to the seaside town of Sag Harbor, perhaps the quaintest in the Hamptons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The myth that 24 hour television networks can even come close to covering all relevant information is going to be one of the quaintest ideas to not make it out of the 21st century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The un-mall is laid out to resemble a small town, with a trolley car, chemist and car-free streets that resemble the quaintest quarters of New Orleans or Boston. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the quaintest - and most enduring - ofallWestminster traditions is how ambitious politicians skirt around the question of whether they want to be party leader/PM. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With an abundance of red-brick houses roofed with reeds from the tidal marshes and streets lined with chestnut trees, the town is one of the island's quaintest and is frequented by German celebrities in all seasons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The one that wears the quaintest, kindliest looks — ❋ Unknown (2007)

One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These old stories, plays, and poems seem to us to convey the quaintest and most inexplicable systems of motivation conceivable, and we cannot imagine people being deflected by them; they might as easily be led astray by the figures on a Chinese screen or an Hellenic sarcophagus; but before the persecution those books were, as one censor called them, “fever rags”. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

The triple-roomed hall, with fountains in the middle, lighted with coloured lamps; the bubbling of the water in the garden; the sad weird music in the distance; the striking costumes; the hum of the narghílehs; the guttural sound of the conversation; the kawwasses in green, red, blue, and gold, gliding about with trays of sherbet, sweets, and coffee, — all combined to make the quaintest scene. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of India's quaintest areas, this white sand beach in Kerala, on India's southern tip, gets very little tourist attention since it has fewer offerings than its neighbors to the north. ❋ Unknown (2006)

From the dizzy summit of the pali, where the sun was high and hot, I looked my last on the dark, cool valley, slumbering in an endless calm, the deepest, greenest, quaintest cleft on all the island. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Returning from Germany, he had astonished the reading public by the vigour of his thoughts, put forth in the quaintest language. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Valladolid, where one of the quaintest of our Spanish surprises awaited us. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Tarifa is perhaps the quaintest town left in the world, either in or out of Spain, but whether it is more Moorish than parts of ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is the quaintest and prettiest of all the quaint and pretty towns I have seen. ❋ Unknown (2004)