As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards. |
However, rape, sexual violation, and incest are not crimes that are now quaintly foreign or out of date in Aotearoa today, alas. |
The report quaintly states that he pushed gently past the policeman and was gently arrested. |
Posters now appear quaintly old-fashioned, something to be collected rather than made. |
The menu still refers, quaintly, to feathered and furred game, mostly brought down from the restaurant's own game estate in the high Pennines. |
While it looks quaintly ancient on the outside, the bedrooms would sit just as easily in any fashionable city boutique hotel. |