quaintnesses

Then the imaginary spectators would fall a-talking of the fashionableness of bicycling, — how judges And stockbrokers and actresses and, in fact, all the best people rode, and how that it was often the fancy of such great folk to shun the big hotels, the adulation of urban crowds, and seek, incognito, the cosy quaintnesses of village life.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

There are many faults in these verses; over quaintnesses of language, constructions impossible in English, quantities of doubtful correctness, harsh elisions, for Webbe has tried even elisions.

Poems and Fragments 2006

From what I have said, you will easily guess that I meant to put you upon your guard; and not let your fancy be dazzled and your taste corrupted by the concetti, the quaintnesses, and false thoughts, which are too much the characteristics of the Italian and Spanish authors.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

A lake, a rock-work, a bridge, a stone lantern, and a deformed pine, are indispensable; but whenever circumstances and means admit of it, quaintnesses of all kinds are introduced.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The fancy of some odd quaintnesses have put him clean beside his nature; he cannot be that he would, and hath lost what he was.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

It can hardly have undergone any perceptible change with in three centuries; but the garden, into which its old windows look, has probably put off a great many eccentricities and quaintnesses, in the way of cunningly clipped shrubbery, since the gardener of Queen Elizabeth's reign threw down his rusty shears and took his departure.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

There are many faults in these verses; over quaintnesses of language, constructions impossible in English, quantities of doubtful correctness, harsh elisions, for Webbe has tried even elisions.

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

Mr. Britton with those of his predecessors -- his highly-finished line engravings, excellent antiquarian pieces on wood, and erudite descriptions, with the wretched prints and the quaintnesses of old topographers -- or even with the lumber of some of our county histories.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

He has not the condensing power of Shakspeare, who squeezed meaning into a phrase with an hydraulic press, but he could carve a cherry-stone with any of the _concellisti_, and abounds in imaginative quaintnesses that are worthy of Donne, and epigrammatic tersenesses that remind us of Fuller.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

And he spoke without the turns of speech that she and her friends amused each other with, the little quaintnesses of conscious fancy.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931