Sentence examples for quaint language from inspiring English sources

Major social, political and ideological antagonisms are presented in the quaint language of procedure and rights.

Quaint language and interesting historical associations are no justification for preserving obsolete statutes in a mummified state.

This quaint language betokens an organic society, in which people by and large lived cheek-by-jowl, except perhaps in a very few great cities.

The appalling nature of her life is at first obscured -- and later grotesquely magnified -- by her unfailingly gentle, optimistic and quaint language.

The tale is held together solely by the quaint language and work of the charming central character.

We don't believe they agreed to change the name of a town without a tiny reciprocal clause, phrased in quaint hillbilly language, not readily understood by N.Y.

It was an oddly old-fashioned message for the hippy times, delivered in quaint, almost courtly language ("I will lay me down").

Old-fashioned language and quaint illustrations are part of the ageless appeal of a classic children's book, so stop modernising them: this is a growing plea from the parents of young readers – and it seems publishers are beginning to listen.

Reading his book this week, I saw a few of his favourite words and remembered how quaint and slightly camp his language could be.

Our literature has been and is still bound up with concepts of independence, cultural assertiveness, language and that quaint old term: freedom.

But the new O.E.D. also seems tempted by the unbounded possibility of that infinite revision, as if the very idea of a "treasure-house of the language" were somewhat quaint.