Sentence examples for quaint touch from inspiring English sources

The line for tickets formed 60 hours before showtime, an almost quaint touch.

There was one other quaint touch: the ensemble brought with it the British custom of charging extra for program books.

In a nice, quaint touch, the Apollo's Fire vocalists begin "The Morning Trumpet" by singing their lines as untrained congregants would, without words but with solf?

Entire families flocked to the face-paint stand, with children excitedly showing off the Eiffel Tower painted on their cheeks, while others played games of pétanque and croquet in the grass - a quaint touch.

The accordion, for so long associated with Paris's riverside guinguettes, gives a quaint touch to songs which blend homesickness and a tribute to French popular music.In April, a pro-Algeria concert in Paris brought together among others Khaled, Idir and Intik, a fashionable group of young rappers.

And he declined to play to individual lawmakers' personalities –- a seemingly quaint touch that still goes a long way in the ego-filled halls of Congress.

The 32-room Newbury Guest House (261 Newbury Street; 617-437-7666; newburyguesthouse.com) is in a brownstone on Newbury Street, and combines quaint touches like brick fireplaces with clean design.

The aesthetic is post-industrial, but there are homespun, almost quaint, touches in the 17 rooms: hemp sofas, lampstands made of driftwood, a misshapen Life Aquatic mural in the hallway.

Malverne Realty (516 593-3028 TAXES: $9,302 PROS: The interior has some quaint touches like a chair rail in the dining room and a fireplace with a wood mantel in the living room.

The children in Sunday schools all across Scotland gave their pennies to buy and preserve this building for posterity in the 1920s; the Duchess of York opened it in 1929 and many quaint touches survive from that age.

Although that would be a quaint New England touch anywhere else, it is just a hint of what's inside: a Civil War museum in one room.