Word: quaintest
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Said John Farrar, Bookman editor: "The man who created the famous Brownies was one of the gentlest and quaintest people I have ever met. His whole life seemed to be tied up in the absurd and entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he would present you with a card on which he had painted a Brownie in glowing colors, and had printed a verse supposed to be peculiarly fitted to your own temperament. I think that Mr. Cox came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there...
...Generaliffe; the grand views of the snowy Sierra on the one hand and of the olive-clad plains of Andalusia on the other; the great shapeless cathedral, where the Catholic kings sleep beneath the tattered standards of the Conquest; the quaint, dirty buildings; the quainter, dirtier peasantry; and, quaintest and dirtiest of all, the dark-eyed gypsies of sleepy old Spain; it is the home of day-dreams, the land of romance...