Sentence examples for quaint settings from inspiring English sources

Quaint settings?

Not that he set what he called his "deliberately old-fashioned" novels in the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s, but after his debut his contemporary novels were cast as traditional English detective fiction with their clever plotting, vivid characters and often quaint village settings.

Sounds quaint, doesn't it?

"Quaint" doesn't begin to describe the settings: pounding surf, rugged cliffs, splendid isolation, sites of historic rescues and damp derring-do.

Mason further contends that the "most appealing elements of these daredevil girl sleuth adventure books are (secretly) of this kind: tea and fancy cakes, romantic settings, food eaten in quaint places (never a Ho-Jo's), delicious pauses that refresh, old-fashioned picnics in the woods, precious jewels and heirlooms ..

Deeply indented wooded shores interspersed with meadows and quaint villages have given Siljan one of the most attractive settings in Sweden, making it a noted tourist centre.

Quaint, quaint,.

Cute quaint.