Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though in that beautiful description Thackeray has not given the quaint verse regularly sung on that occasion, which runs...
...roguish ways and sayings quaint...