In my quaint way, I tend to believe that language is supposed to tell you something about the characters on screen. |
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This quaint cottage-style mews extends to 85 square metres, including a living room, dining room, three bedrooms and a bathroom. |
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The set comprising chessmen placed on a board in wood has a quaint appearance. |
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Although this may be a polite and quaint custom, it is often of little use to the recipient. |
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We have so many quaint old settler cottages as well as grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings. |
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It was not until the next night in a quaint old bar in Amsterdam that the wonder of the whole trip hit me. |
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How quaint, we all said, to see trades unionists with megaphones out on the streets demonstrating in defence of their jobs. |
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Now, I rarely go to church except to visit great cathedrals or quaint roadside chapels. |
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Explanations requiring the supernatural are now not merely quaint but harmfully distracting to children and other innocents. |
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The methods used have changed little over the centuries and appear quaint compared with modern-day forestry. |
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This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums. |
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The French names on the streets and the quaint old houses invite exploration into the history. |
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You'll find them on estates yes, but also in the nice, leafy suburbs and in quaint olde English villages. |
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This is one of those quaint traditions from the first days of the Parliament which still survive. |
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Along the coast you'll also find a handful of quaint fishing harbours and some great seascapes. |
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Morris dancers often claim to be keeping alive a quaint ye olde English custom. |
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Goodbye to the quaint packaging, goodbye to the fruit-and-nut delight, and so-long to the vanilla octagon. |
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It's seriously repetitious, but still unique from the rest of the tracks, the piccolo playing is quaint. |
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Some quaint and furtive figures slid silently along the walls with a fearful air. |
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Most of those quaint and charming bookstores have sold out to pizzerias and chain stores. |
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They were the usual Kiwi baches, built from whatever was handy, oddly practical, sometimes quaint. |
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Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment. |
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In any case, Graveyard of Honor struck me as a paradoxically quaint and unredeemable film. |
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With its opulent boudoirs, quaint cul-de-sacs and misty train stations, it's not the way France actually looked, but the way we wish it did. |
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Enjoy sleigh rides, snowmobiling or take the cable car from town up the mountain and down the other side to a quaint village. |
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This is a film of warm sunshine in which townsfolk and tourists can happily stroll, enjoying quaint civic parades. |
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I was excited by the romantic exoticism of the play, but it was also a little quaint and stagy. |
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In addition, there are a plethora of villas, three campgrounds and quaint bed-and-breakfast inns. |
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The buildings vary between those that are old and quaint and new shopping developments. |
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While it dates back to 1879, there's no quaint Main Street lined with old brick buildings. |
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The study, kitchen, and utility rooms stretch across the rear of the house and overlook a quaint courtyard to the rear. |
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Those shots, with lush green glens, babbling brooks, small rock walls, and quaint cottages were simply gorgeous. |
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There was a time when Highland spaewives believed in microbes and infection while the qualified physicians laughed at their quaint superstitions. |
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The quaint, family-owned shops include a candle-maker, a perfumery and specialist cheese and wine shops. |
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Now the red swaying lanterns on the low, wide bumboats come on, making some minor huckster transformation from tawdry to quaint. |
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This is a quaint old-fashioned shrub that is ideal for both town and country gardens. |
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Mostly the book's given over to the impossibly quaint eccentrics Edwin encounters in London. |
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Lytham is the more quaint, elegant area while St Annes has large hotels along the sea sand front and cheaper houses. |
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Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness. |
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The two men had a beautiful home out near the Rocky Moutains, in a beautiful and quaint nowhere town. |
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Here the ritual of the election night is a quaint old-world tradition closer to pantomime than politics. |
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It's easy to walk through the village and just see old stone, quaint architecture and water. |
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Sadly, Fiona and her quaint highland village seem forever lost to him in the remote mists of time. |
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For the other 90 per cent, it is viewed at best as quaint, but more often as a monstrous and grotesque accident of birth. |
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No one can resist taking photos of the faintly ridiculous men with their beards and waxed moustaches and their womenfolk in quaint dresses. |
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This would mean ditching all the stuff I've recorded and collected on quaint videotape, but it has to happen. |
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Karmi Farm is a quaint little eco-resort situated amidst an agricultural area in the north-west Darjeeling town. |
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Outside the sun was shining and so I wandered off to Bath Place to gawp at the quaint little shops and to watch people. |
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That Frank Lloyd Wright building, its quaint oddness and dated vision of the future now strike me as the perfect temple for the spirit of Marin. |
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As well as the twice weekly markets this quaint small traditional Gascon town offers bars and restaurants and shops within walking distance. |
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It was a quaint little place, nestled in a hollow in the hills, and smoke rose cozily out of the chimneys of the houses. |
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Now, my good woman, could you be so kind as to tell us where the inn of this quaint town is? |
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Paul Handley is in a reflective mood as he lights another cigarette in a quaint London hotel. |
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Now, heraldry is one of the quaint, meaningless traditions that so enthralls Yanqui Anglophiles like myself. |
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The screen and stall work brought from Easby Abbey are of great beauty, and the carvings on the subsellia are quaint and humorous. |
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The car pulled in and parked alongside the road in front of some quaint little shops. |
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We climbed a winding wooden staircase up into a quaint little room filled with over-stuffed sofas and dainty tables. |
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He had a fund of quiet humour and often threw oil on troubled waters by quaint comments or amusing anecdotes. |
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To most people, the old myths and legends are quaint reminders of a bygone and superstitious age, and have nothing much to tell us anymore. |
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They may find it quaint or antiquated, rather than charming, and its few flaws may stand out larger due to the hype. |
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The trio hail from Montreal and a wonderfully quaint almost folkish tinge subtly permeates the album. |
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The Sonoma Hotel is very quaint with its antique furnishings and cozy atmosphere. |
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The front of the house had a quaint little porch with comfortable wicker rocking chairs and low tables that were always occupied. |
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The final roads lacked the quaint character, of the small Florentine highways. |
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Pieper also provides detailed notes on the quaint argot that the vocalists use. |
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The other entry ports are quaint outposts guarding back roads that cut across lush pasturelands and dairy farms from Canada. |
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Slowly people left, and just as slowly the park darkened and the quaint round lanterns set around the circle flickered into life. |
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While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader. |
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There were some quaint streets to explore and various interesting shops to look round. |
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What legends, what quaint stories, what seemingly extravagant romances, its ivied stones, had they but tongues, could tell! |
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Coincidentally, their arrival occurs just after 22 people have gone missing from a quaint village with a high-tech centerpiece. |
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It is a quaint and relaxing venue, a home to connoisseurs of blend, bean and cream, and a portal for percolator punters like me. |
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In fact the need for that quaint stone edged sashed window to open, to have real glass or to lend a view is irrelevant. |
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Behind this lies a genuine satiric point about the booming heritage industry's dependence on quaint appellations and sentimental conservation. |
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They had done their homework and cared little about the details, the stripped-down, out-of-date interior of my mother's quaint little ranch. |
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If we are to have this quaint surtax on upward mobility, at least let's make it open and a boon to the community at large. |
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Chinglish is often quaint and attractive, expressing the hospitality and unique perspective of the Chinese world-view. |
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While some rules seem a bit quaint, most 19th Century table manners would not be out of place today. |
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Everything about it from the trees glinting with decorative fairy lights to the quaint old church was picture postcard perfect. |
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You may think of them as quaint or outmoded, but vanity units are incredibly useful in maintaining the look of a clutter-free bathroom. |
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After all that, walk it off with a stroll through the quaint old Tivoli gardens, one of Europe's original amusement parks. |
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It is a shame that if Otley is portrayed as a quaint market town, the first port of call for locals and visitors doesn't say much for it. |
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The result is winning, shimmering pop that sounds quaint and postmodern, sternly Teutonic and curiously homely at the same time. |
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It is just a quaint example of how literal translations from Thai to English do not work too well. |
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This in part also relates to the quaint antiquation of the seaside area where Gayfield is situated. |
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We do have a corner lot with a quaint picket fence running along it so we string lights on there. |
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Because as quaint as it may sound, some things are more important in life than money. |
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Yes, it was at first glance quaint and seemingly out of time, but it was also monumentally impressive and alive. |
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It was all very quaint, belying the ultra-modern appearance of the boat's exterior, but it was no less impressive. |
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He abounded in quaint simile, and many times the studied argument of his opponent would fall before some simple homley illustration, delivered at the oppertune time, in his inimitable style. |
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A bell rang as he opened the door to the quaint coffee shop. |
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Almost everything in the quaint little town beguiles, from its architecture to its art to its people. |
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According to Adoflsson, the tradition is nothing more than good vs. evil, set in a quaint Swedish town. |
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During the Vietnam war, conversion disorders were seldom encountered as repressed memories, and abreactive treatments became a quaint historical artifact. |
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After all, look how modern these quaint old institutions are becoming. |
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If you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert Dessaix brings us up to date on Word Games. |
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The fronts of the joss houses and the restaurants were brightened with many colored lanterns, quaint carved gilded woodwork, potted plants and dwarf trees. |
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This is another well-preserved old town full of beautiful houses, and has a quaint little yachting harbour guarded by stone Bavarian lions on pillars. |
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Taped to the front door of his quaint house was a piece of construction paper with a handwritten note. |
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Her affection for these people shines through the quaint freakishness, and I rather believe she understands precisely what she's trying to accomplish. |
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The sixth edition was admittedly sometimes quaint or anachronistic. |
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Edgerton's Britain is not a quaint land of outdated traditions, left behind by the surging modernity of its rivals. |
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Maybe the inhabitants can't see it, but there is a freshness and antique aura of the quaint little shops and farms that is breathtaking and endearing. |
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Two months later, McLelland and his wife were shot to death on March 30 in their quaint home in Forney, Texas. |
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Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage. |
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She is best remembered for her cookery programmes set in her quaint Suffolk cottage, where she meticulously talks viewers through the intricacies of every recipe. |
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The notion that the tangle of potent and conflicting interests in Americans' medical information could be resolved over such a short period now seems little short of quaint. |
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And yet those games of the early 80s seem awful quaint now, don't they? |
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The man in the video starts scatting, familiar and quaint at first but soon his voice starts evoking everything from Appalachian folk to an angel-dust fit. |
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In the other are those who forcefully reject new tourist attractions, preferring to remain a quaint backwater, undisturbed by 21st-century concerns. |
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Their enthusiasm, devotion, and mixed-up sense of romance for squinty boys is one of the more quaint aspects of pop culture. |
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Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins? |
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While traveling along the 40 kilometer route, make sure to stop in some of the quaint villages, particularly Beuvron-en-Auge. |
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So, there's no mill, no stream to power said mill, and no quaint hedge-rowed Brit township or timbered farm-houses for the characters to retreat into. |
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Goats are over-plentiful here, and the hollies, oaks and thorns along the path have been gnawed by them into quaint patterns like the topiarian work in old-fashioned gardens. |
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Across Ireland, those searching for a pint in the quaint Irish bars beloved of the tourist brochures are having to look harder and harder for the genuine article. |
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I got to the front, and was pleasantly surprised to find that, instead of horses, two quaint looking, shaggy little ponies had been pulling us along. |
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I'd say shame on you, but I suppose you would think that quaint, too. |
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They promise to so streamline interactions between people and computers that the mouse, the trackball, the keyboard will surely someday seem quaint and clunky. |
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In the end, the right wall only displayed an antique sideboard, the china cupboard, a quaint old rocking chair Brianna couldn't bear to part with and a bookshelf. |
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It was such a cool, quaint, and rustic spot, home to many of my most memorable meals. |
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Vows declaring two individuals permanently one in the sight of God, a bond no one may put asunder, are taken as mostly a quaint rhetoric or archaic poetry. |
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The local burghers were not the least bit delighted or impressed at this assumption, and the unenlightened portrayal of our quaint and historic village. |
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Beyond it lies another world, quite unlike the one on bustling Queen West, a serene, unworldly oasis of miniature food, quaint dishes and exotic teas. |
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Not long ago, polite society had only begun to tolerate slamming the Electoral College as a perniciously quaint old institution. |
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The quaint little shop has a range of phantasmagoric linens, tablecloths, and blankets. |
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Sitting in his North Side office, he proffered old-fashioned, even quaint, ideas to gain influence. |
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I followed and was soon sitting at a quaint table with chairs facing the lake. |
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The Barri Gotic, en route, is full of good cheap restaurants as well as being a quaint area of narrow streets and small squares which are a delight to stroll through. |
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Or do I step away from the remote and regress, becoming the quaint sort of character who watches only one episode at a time? |
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I reread the above two paragraphs and I see that I sound a bit like a textbook, and a quaint one at that, one printed long ago. |
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With its straightforward narrative, show tune chestnuts and quaint, old-world coziness, the show is a guaranteed crowd pleaser for the Sunday matinee crowd. |
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By the end of his life, in 1941, there were millions of scouts worldwide, and his quaint little handbook had outsold every other English book of its time. |
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The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people. |
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Some of them have an animal, although not necessarily a horsey, theme and the display on the large dresser certainly gives the shop a charming, quaint feel. |
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In the afternoon, he coasts down the hill on his bicycle to a quaint village, stops at a Peet's coffee shop for a latte or Chai tea, and pumps back up the hill. |
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The dangers posed to them by superstores and online sellers don't just threaten some quaint form of distributing goods, they imperil the fabric of neighborhoods and towns. |
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The idea of a team made up of footballers who could play anywhere, moving around the pitch as the game and their colleagues demanded, now seems quaint and fanciful. |
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How quaint to find this plebeian trait alive and well in Starkey. |
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They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction. |
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I recently inherited a quaint English cottage in Sussex between Eastbourne and Pevensey that was once owned by my great grand-uncle on my mother's side. |
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This is rather a quaint dilemma in the age of personal ads and e-dating. |
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The line separating diaries from memoirs and autobiographies is frequently as quaint as that which parts documentative writing from creative writing. |
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Their town, though small got a good number of tourists for the summer the kind that found something remotely quaint and old fashioned about drive-ins. |
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Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself, as it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing. |
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Get off your bike and obambulate down this quaint Edo Period street, ducking in for a coffee or hot homemade ginger ale at Cafe and Bar Shiomachitei. |
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It is tempting to dismiss spermism as a quaint curiosity in the history of ideas, on a par, say, with believing that the Earth is flat. |
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There are puppets and curtain calls, an exotic lair for Sarandon's grande dame, and a quaint and invitingly dreamlike stage set. |
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Sanctity of contract may seem like a quaint notion in the age of the GM bailout and government-mandated mortgage cramdowns. |
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Ireland has long been associated with thatched roof cottages, though these are nowadays considered quaint. |
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has had quaint experience of this unfashionableness of freedom in the land of the free. |
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Westbridge looks a little like a museum piece itself with its quaint, Victorian-inspired decor. |
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From diving in Belize, exploring BulgariaOs quaint villages or even snorkling in Bonaire, blogs John-Christian Moquette. |
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They live in the quaint smurf Village, in homes made of mushrooms. |
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The quaint charm of Churachandpur is enhanced by the presence of the Kuki tribals. |
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Officially, councillors stick to the quaint line that there's nothing iffy about Birmingham's 152 massage parlours. |
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At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls. |
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Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse. |
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The quaint downtown shopping center includes businesses that appeal to all ages. |
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And so you will find that his whole orchard is a quaint and nooky place where one may not only pick apples, but may saunter and rest. |
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Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody. |
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I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought 'eggy in a basket' was a quaint and Olde Worlde version. |
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The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline. |
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The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished. |
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This new one is along the same lines but was written in such a quaint way I almost feel like getting in touch and suggesting we become pen pals. |
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After a lip-smacking plate of kebabs and parathas, people stop over at the small quaint shop for its delicious lassi and falooda. |
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That afternoon, I had arranged to shoot a five-man blowbang... quaint. |
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These curtains we couched in white cord with quaint designs. |
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The granthi, an old man who spoke quaint Punjabi, showed us around but seemed keener to change our money with a Shylockian commission for himself. |
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It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills. |
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What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration. |
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Pipe smoking, until recently one of the most common forms of smoking, is today often associated with solemn contemplation, old age and is often considered quaint and archaic. |
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This quaint coffeehouse in an alley is popular with locals and expat downtowners alike, and will be filled with an eclectic mix of people at any time of the day. |
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With Vitalic, Woodkid and others plying their trade at night, the white, fluffy beaches and quaint old harbour await festivalgoers in the daytime. |
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Many of the grammatical features that a modern reader of Shakespeare might find quaint or archaic represent the distinct characteristics of Early Modern English. |
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On the quaint streets of this neighbourhood, you are unlikely to find kitsch souvenir shops, bastardised baguette-sandwich stalls or currency bureaux. |
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Quaint shops in Old San Juan abound with jewelry and local handicrafts such as santos, cuatros and guiros and masks. |
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Quaint Cape Dutch homesteads welcome you to join winetasting sessions or dine in spectacular surroundings like Lanzerac Hotel and Spa. |
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