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The Environs of London
… in describing this church; his account of the chancel, is quaint and curious. "Here we find the indifferent spectacle …
Survey of London
… but artistic pleasantry which seems to suit their somewhat quaint employment'. 472 Most of this was at first solidly …
Old and New London
… from the old inn, and on it are deeply cut the following quaint lines: "Milo the Cretonian An ox slew with his fist, …
Old and New London
… are quoted by Stow from an old record which is singularly quaint and picturesque. The chief clauses run thus: "The said … of the mayor." This old record seems to us especially quaint and picturesque. The right of banner-bearer to the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there were standing well into the 19th century a number of quaint and ancient buildings 147 which when taken down …
Old and New London
… front of his chapel an appropriate transparency, with the quaint motto, "May the new-born peace be as old as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Bottisham Lode farm in 1839. 77 Having restored his 'quaint old abbey' from 1849, 78 he occupied it from his …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Strippling Thames (1909), 256 (calling it 'delightful and quaint' but 'a little ramshackle'). Kelmscott par. mtg mins, …