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Old and New London
… Pepys himself was a member of this Company, and left it a quaint and valuable old cup, which still shines out among the …
Survey of London
… the writer upstairs to the drawing-room, hung in a quaint last century style of paper, a greenish-blue …
Cardiff Records
… ( a) a tradesman or ( b) a gentleman. The phraseology is quaint, and was evidently composed in ancient times. The …
Cardiff Records
… antiquary may be pardoned for looking fondly back to the quaint, poetic town life which vanished at the dawning of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Secker, received their education in this school; and the quaint old physician, Philemon Holland, who was called the …
Old and New London
… of King Charles I. The roof was an elliptical cupola. The quaint old wooden doorway, with the deep arched roof, the … account of the perambulation of Cripplegate parish is so quaint that we cannot refrain from abridging it, as a good … spurious silver or copper. The Girdlers still retain one quaint old custom of their craft, and that is, at the annual …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which he made and performed extempore,' renowned as a most quaint preacher, and for this reason highly esteemed by King …