Just round the corner from Tol Pedn is to be found one of the quaintest little fishing villages, Porthgwarra, where a tunnel has been cut through the solid rock to allow the fishermen to get down to their boats.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Una's face would light up, and Mrs. Davenant would smile agreeably, and in half-an-hour they would be ready, and Jack, as proud of Una's beauty as if it were unique, would escort them to the "White Horse" in Piccadilly, and away they would spin through the lovely Surrey valleys to that quaintest of old towns in the hills.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
But Rosemary Hedge's dress was the quaintest costume that the law-of society-allowed.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth