"None of my 'clients,' as you so quaintly call them, have ever ended up there."

By now your people have searched further into what you quaintly call a monument.

That boat, as you so quaintly call it, is the largest ship in the world.

Would you say, Markham, that this idea is conducive to what we quaintly call normal thinking?

"The boy, as you so quaintly call him, isn't a boy, and he has created more scientific wonders than you'll ever know about."

Only the part you so quaintly call my 'power.'

I designed primarily to protect us from what is so quaintly called 'civil disorder.'

But what about the ideals of what was once quaintly called "scholarly communication"?

Sending your doodling bug, as you so quaintly call it, into my legs, to find the cause of the gout.

Maybe the ministers were not wholly wrong about those with hidden powers-or "knacks," as the Americans quaintly called them.