More charmingly old-fashioned

Usage examples of quainter.

Thus he preserved his amusement at her quaint warmths, and quainter calmness, his aesthetic pleasure in watching her, whose strange, half-hypnotized, half-hypnotic gaze, had a sort of dreamy and pathetic lovingness, as if she were brimful of affections that had no outlet.

Trailing her coat sometimes: and you shall find No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart.