antiqueness

[14] We have laboured to preserve his delightful air of antiqueness, which is singularly appropriate to the Saint's work.

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

And Lily spent these minutes catching her final glimpses of the magical land of Delaware—drinking in the strangeness and the antiqueness she had come to love.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

And Lily spent these minutes catching her final glimpses of the magical land of Delaware—drinking in the strangeness and the antiqueness she had come to love.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

It had originally belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the county, for a strictly modern house, without a vestige of antiqueness lingering in its halls and with no faint aroma of bygone days pervading its atmosphere, would have been entirely too plebeian to suit the tastes of Hugh Mainwaring.

That Mainwaring Affair

The quaintness and antiqueness of the homely kitchen chimed in with his present feeling; he wanted no display or grandeur.

Brought Home Hesba Stretton 1871

I know I have spoiled the poem in half-translating it thus; but I have rendered it intelligible to all my readers, have not wandered from the original, and have retained a degree of antiqueness both in the tone and the expression.

England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868

The lady at the 'front desk' was a complete bitch, there was internet access via a circa 1994 PC with coin operated access, a communal kitchen complete with kitchenware, a TV that would be better described as a picture tube for it's antiqueness, and something resembling a pool table.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

She loved Kierkegaard in his antiqueness, in the glaring drama of the translation she owned, an old anthology of brittle pages with ruled underlinings in red ink, passed down by someone in her mother’s family.

Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

_Sybils_; and bid him mind the antiqueness of the work: the more she commended it, the more he liked it, and told her, she must let him call it his: she told him, he would give it away to the next commender: he vowed he would not: she told him then he should not only call it his, but it should in reality be so; and he vowed it should be the last thing he would part with in the world.

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664

"The cultivators of science purchase books in great quantities, not so much, I am told, for the sake of the contents, as for their antiqueness of style or elegance of binding.

Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. Ludvig Holberg 1719