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Buddhism in this country is not really understood; it's regarded as sort of quaint , it seems to be an old-fashioned religion.

There was a narrow dirt path that led directly through the meadow to the door of a quaint-looking house built at the edge of the woods.

The island is often viewed as a quaint place a decade or so behind the times.

Red Ding building exudes quaint atmosphere during the day, evening charming sparkling, go to the front could be so domineering amazing!

Even his childish agitation could not master the sly and quaint yet touching look, with which he accompanied the reply.

I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.

He spoke with solemnity and his colossal misshapen nose made what he said very quaint.

These peoples are not failed attempts at being modern -- quaint and colorful and destined to fade away as if by natural law.

and "Quaint's" trunk twists around in spiral formation all the way up to its highest branches.

to which picture she added many other quaint and curious details of torment sometimes taught the young in this Christian country.

On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks, shining vividly in the sun.

It was easy enough to do. Carrie scowled. The effect was something so quaint and droll it caught even the manager.

It is basically the front door by the Ming and Qing Dynasties style of construction of streets, quaint and elegant shops.

It might have been the trees he was addressing on the quaint customs of crystals.

The most popular Yunnanese dish goes by the quaint name of Crossing the Bridge Noodles. The name has its origins in a popular tale.

He beams at each customer , greeting them by name as they step into the sanctuary of his quaint plant and flower shop .

Open-outcry trading is supposed to be a quaint, outdated practice, rapidly being replaced by sleeker, cheaper electronic systems.

The rural region boasts wonderful beaches, quaint towns, world-beating cider, and a wide variety of cultural attractions.

He played a piece of elegant quaint music for the cow, but the cow just kept grazing the grass with its head down.

here was an old church , quaint and rambling and gabled.

First written in 1941 it's rather long and the language is at times quaint but it's as insightful today as it was then.

And nearby Kyoto, with its famously quaint temples, gardens and tea houses, beats it for classic Japanese charm.

Arthur Cozzens, the geography professor, had a white goatee and a quaint professional manner.

I took my wife to see the famous comedian performing at the quaint theater for our anniversary. It was really a night to remember.

Mr Mills said it was time for the west to stop regarding the continent as a "quaint curiosity" in cultural terms.

One of the first, quaint and timid, said, "Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health. "

The Ox Hill area was once a rural backwater, but the quaint name is the only reminder of its agricultural past.

His vision of a modern, peaceful Iraq, and a united Arab world, now seems quaint and obsolete.

I'll be the first to admit, when you look at the church out in Fauquier County, it looks like a quaint country church.

Madeline affected all manner of rich and quaint devices in the garniture of her room, her person, and her feminine belonging.

IT WILL not be long before paper tickets for a plane, train or bus seem as quaint as propellers, steam and conductors do today.

You'll think it was quaint that people once had to read the same newspaper , that it wasn't customized for individual preferences .

This neighborhood of quaint brownstones clustered along tree-lined cobblestone streets remains virtually unchanged since the 19th century.

My grandfather's quaint worries about me and Mel Ott and Eleanor Roosevelt are enough to make a contemporary worrier weep with envy.

With its quaint name and features about road safety, Top Gear undertook the serious business of reviewing new cars.

Just opening be just quaint to your identities, but now was to want pass you stir mingle as one Buddha boundary.

It's not what I expected. Where are all the old, quaint houses like in Amsterdam?

Quaint little colorful cliffside houses stacked on top of each other are draped off the jagged cliffs.

Remember how there was once a quaint habit called "prostitution" , whereby men paid women to have sex with them.

as are many small and quaint farming and fishing villages within a few hours' drive.

You will see it in the design of a doorway or arch and in the little fountains and quaint balconies.

The owner's manual, to the extent anyone remembered it, seemed a quaint and idealistic relic of a vanished era.

we used to be forgiving of it and think it was quaint. . .

The beautiful library includes a quaint coffee shop and a variety of exhibits.

But as the thwarted candidates' backers become more radical, these views on nuclear issues are starting to sound rather quaint.

Hangzhou, mountain while living alongside water and house of pillow, a quaint and water jiangnan dreamlike charm city.

Perhaps more important, Berkshire's emphasis on value investing looks increasingly quaint amid markets dominated by technology and quants.

"the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" (Winston Churchill).

From rice patties, to volcanoes, quaint Balinese villages, a trip to Bali is a trip of a lifetime.

The lane, in the art of urban architecture, is like a prose dripping graceful quietness or a painting brimmed with quaint simplicity.

Those early lessons seem quaint, because five months into our union, Jenny and I found out that a baby is coming in November.

Settled by German and Swiss immigrants, these once-quaint villages of gingerbread architecture have turned into bustling cities.

a window of the tiny station featured a quaint and charming photo exhibit of great local train crashes.

It was indeed a quaint notion that under Mrs. Thatcher the Troy Party would only appeal to the suburban south-east.

It's a quaint old habit I picked up as a kid, in the days before cellphones began nesting, cuckoolike, in the palms of the young.

Its village-like atmosphere with quaint shops, galleries and restaurants sets it apart from the hustle and bustle of Southern California.

Vistas of the lake reveal a serene scene surrounded by palatial villas, tree-clad mountains, and quaint villages.

These problems are my favourites: quaint and unexpected as well as being morally interesting.

My hometown in a thin superficial impression, has been associated with extreme poverty, quaint, quiet about.

The idea that it could be wrong to use contraception in order to separate sex from reproduction is now merely quaint.

She emanates a breezy, imperturbable contentment. It's an attitude that seems quaint and anachronistic, as do her pleasant good looks.

So all these broads are going to be stuck together on a tour bus. How quaint.

Here, the rolling green hills are home to English-style country inns, guesthouses and quaint bed and breakfast establishments.

As students arrived in the quaint college town last week, there was some low-key clashing of cultures.

Consider this simple, if quaint, example of storing mail in a filing cabinet: The key is name, last name first.

Yet Mr Miliband wants to talk about work-life balance, the joys of quaint local shops and other expensive luxuries.

Filled with historical churches and homes, you'll also find quaint specialty shops and local eateries lining the streets.

Mere mechanical reproduction: How simple and even quaint modernist anxieties seem now, from the vertigo vantage of the Internet age.

For those that don't know what nixie tubes are, they were used back in 1969 in calculators and are quaint neon display tubes.

He even described some of the Geneva Conventions as " quaint " .

Teddy bears and quaint toys appear all over the house.

One night long time ago, my travels took me to a quaint little village.

Others nestle in mountain valleys, or quaint towns guarded by the castles of hereditary rulers.

"Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse. I like to have some sort of animal about, " had been his quaint answer.

Once the quaint rituals are over, a month of intensive campaigning will follow.

Perhaps you saw "ethnography" and assumed it would just be quaint reports from the Amazon and the South Seas.

It has a tire wall, thick enamel thickness of the quaint features.

I remember a quaint little of fairy tales. This novel is coming upon the will, the extraordinary.

Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings .

Flourishing, old, busy, quiet, combines with quaint and modern, the busy life still keeps good nature and simple.

Within Connemara's quaint little village of Oughterard is the Ireland of the postcards.

Already the idea of China as a nation of cyclists seems quaint. Some 45, 000km of expressways have been built or are under construction.

I had a quaint apartment in San Francisco, an interesting job, and great friends.

Vacation in your own private paradise. AS tropical, AS quaint, AS any undiscovered island. The perfect island resort.

For those craving western food, there are snazzy and quaint restaurants along Clark and Boat quay, offering plenty of choices.

We packed up our stuff after that, lunched at a quaint little tea house in the vicinity, and then went home.

Staunton's rolling hills and quaint downtown area provide a wonderful setting for living and learning.

Unusual, maybe eccentric , in a quaint way, like dessert spoons.

In the previous century, technology we may find quaint today was invaluable for covert operations.

both boast imposing medieval castles in their quaint, yacht-filled harbours.

be fascinated with If you look back into history , you will certainly be fascinated with many quaint customs and cultures.

If the toy seems somewhat quaint now, that's because interactive technology has become far more sophisticated.

In Washington State, a quaint Swiss chalet -style village is decorated for Christmas.

a small, quaint town with narrow streets and traditional half-timbered houses.

The funky young couple just purchased this quaint yet stunning Hollywood Hills home.

The velocity of change has made the dictionary's customary method of certifying new words or usages positively quaint.

Since then, I've upgraded to a 2007 model boasting a 160-gigabyte hard drive that makes holding a mere thousand songs seem quaint.

Beijing took flak for bulldozing many of its hutongs, the quaint alleys in the historic center.

Pavilion structure in the cliff, Diaolianghuadong, beautiful color, quaint scene.

For nine days of dirty fun, a quaint South Korean coastal city paints the town a dull shade of mud.

American visitors to Taiwan admire our quaint traditions and customs.

If the elitists want a quaint, pre-industrial existence, they should buy land and live like that.

These vocabulary and syntax features a quaint gives the original colors.

In the 1940's it was a wholesome, quaint little community.

These days in Silicon Valley, a billion dollars seems downright quaint.

His ideas were quaint and fantastic . She brought him judiciously to earth.

Till now, I couldn't catch him sometimes, since there's something almost quaint method he like to escape from my sight.

Nowadays that image is starting to seem a little quaint.

Silk pocket editions of sun zi bing fa quaint Chinese silk by temperament for medium.

But the idea of those portals seems quaint in the Internet age.

A quaint building stands beside Houhai Lake in Beijing. It's the Phoebe Nanmu Study.

"Sudden leap" is not only the literal quaint, but both sound and meaning.

And, the idea of a space ark carrying a boatload of colonists here is a quaint 16th-century notion.

The modern building looks incongruous in that quaint old village.

Some supposed sources of progress now appear almost quaint.

The location is nice and quaint, across from the Buckingham Palace Mews.

paying to make a call may seem as quaint as paying to use a john.

About mid-day he reached it, and crossing the bridge into the quaint old borough he inquired for the house of the composer.

The complex financial instruments of 10 years ago would seem quaint to the hedge funds and investment banks of today.

Quaint or strange in form, conception, or appearance.

In addition to viewing picturesque scenery, travelers can visit quaint gift shops, country stores and other local attractions.

More and more was Shelton conscious of a quaint uneasiness in the very breathing of the household.

Qingdao International Beer City in the east, stands a quaint, imposing a large building, which is Qingdao Culture Expo Center.

Joshua Becker is the quaint Buddha that lives in modern America.

I bet it's full of quaint details, pretty moldings on the ceilings.

There is a quaint old church a couple of blocks away with outdoor restaurants in the streets behind it.

For buyers in search of something more quaint, there are older properties in need of renovation.

While passing under the road-side jasmine trees one may see the canal-side houses with their quaint foundations and over-hanging balconies.

For one thing, high streets were not as quaint as politicians think.

Gazetting sounds quaint, but is anything but.

But 100 years later, the industrial revolution made Mr. Smith's vision seem quaint.

Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition.

He saw them as quaint, or innocent, or touching.

The chateau is located onthe edge oftheLoire Valley where it seems chateaux and quaint stone villagesarearound every corner.

So I don't see there is any real point in looking back at all these quaint old customs.

There were many small lanes in the quaint village.

They still keep some quaint old customs.

How quaint. Even the rabble.

Can you understand my quaint English accent ?

Giverny is a quaint little town 80 km outside of Paris that is set in gently rolling hills with vistas that will take your breath away.

In contrast, the freewheeling attitude in the US, based on a liberal view of free speech, is viewed as quaint in some security quarters.

The "quaint" hotel was actually a handyman's special so we went to another hotel.

And your quaint honor turn to dust.

Last March, a 1, 122-square-foot 'quaint Victorian' two-bedroom shack on Main Street sold for $1 million.

That view now looks quaint.

Quaint little cottages on the village green.

What a quaint little building!

I have this quaint notion about kitchens: They're for making food.

That figure (about 40% of 1940 GDP) now seems quaint.

House of quaint Chinese literature, of course, can not do without these elements. In Mr.

Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.

To Philip the room seemed quaint and charming.

"He says in brackets that these are quaint, prudish terms but I don't think that is sufficient justification for using them, " said Beckman.

I think in ten years the TV show 'the Office' will be seen as a quaint antique.

But the consolation is this: I really like our house, our neighbors and the quaint suburban town where we're now putting down roots.

to become absorbed, for the better part of a summer's day, in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry or upon the floor;

Did you ever hear anything so quaint?

considering this city ' s commercial reputation , you may be surprised by the otherworldly and quaint style of cold fairyland

quaint, Odd, especially in an old-fashioned way:

Studies on Inter-dynamic Development between Quaint Old Village Culture and Its Carriers

prizes the bright costumes and quaint villages of the Dai as a lucrative tourism draw

the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name- Bill Beatty;

Qingdao is a quaint seaside city on the southern tip of the Shandong

came forth a quaint and fearful sight- Sir Walter Scott;

The quaint and tranquil world of Chengdu's tea culture

3 houses with quaint thatched roofs;