"Queint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sene, And the erth waxeth proud withall, For sweet dewes that on it fall, And the poore estate forget, In which that winter had it set: And then becomes the ground so proude, That it wol have a newe shroude, And maketh so queint his robe and faire, That it had hewes an hundred paire, Of grasse and floures, of Inde and Pers, And many hewes full divers: That is the robe I mean ywis Through which ...
— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin
... on him with big looks basen wide, 670 [Basen, swelled.] Wondring what mister wight he was, and whence; [Mister wight, sort of creature.] For he was clad in strange accoustrements, Fashion'd with queint devises never seene In court before, yet there all fashions beene; Yet he them in newfanglenesse did pas. 675 But his behaviour altogether was Alla Turchesca, much the more admyr'd; [Alla Turchesca, in the Turkish fashion.] And ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser |
