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Quaint

A term used to refer to antique or old-fashioned styles, such as English style cottages and Queen Anne houses.
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Everywhere from among the pines peeped the quaint pretty houses of the artist folk, and they were not prepared, where the road dipped to Carmel River, for the building that met their eyes.
It has other historic spots also, which may be hunted out by the curious, and none is more quaint and delightful than Old St.
Up and down the long grassy aisles they wandered, reading the quaint, voluminous epitaphs, carved in an age that had more leisure than our own.
And yet those strange, peaked roofs and quaint, overhung gables were a fitting covering to grim and terrible intrigue.
We walked across the drawbridge, and were admitted by a quaint, gnarled, dried-up person, who was the butler, Ames.
IT seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt.
India, June 20 -- Mobile phones have come a long way from quaint little boxes that we use to call people.
As NHPR reported in Feb., for years, it turns out, the little town that famously votes at midnight has been cooking the voter rolls, allowing people who no longer live in the town to cast a ballot in front of all those national TV cameras, which dutifully show up every four years to report on the quaint little town's tradition.
* First place, "Quaint and Traditional" category: Christy Rhodes, 1718 Swanwick St.
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa: Quaint Oak Bancorp, Inc.'s Board of Directors approved the adoption of the Company's fifth share repurchase program for up to an additional 50,000 shares, or approximately 2.5% of the Company's current outstanding shares of common stock.
Graham Lunn Shop rents are way high and there is nothing quaint about it.
The anti-graft body has filed four corruption references against the Sharif family and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar related to their Avenfield property, Azizia Steel Mills, Hill Metal Company and other companies, including Flagship Investments, Hartstone properties, Que Holdings, Quint Eaton Place 2, Quint Sloane, Quaint, Flagship Securities, Quaint Gloucester Place, Quaint Paddington, Flagship Developments, Alanna Services (BVI), Lankin SA (BVI), Chadron, Ansbacher, Coomber and Capital FZE, Dubai.