3 Query: was ever a quainter xiv.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He little dreamt in his modesty that, young and inexperienced though he might be, his pictures were even quainter than theirs; for not only could he already draw, colour, compose, and put into perspective quite as badly as they did, but he had over them the advantage of a real lay figure to copy, whereas they had to content themselves with the living model."
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
On the sea-line, about halfway across, is the tiny fishing village-really a fishing village this time-of Polperro, than which no quainter thing exists in Britain.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton