Crafts booths and food stands lined the meadow, selling the usual array of hippie trinketry: pipes, jewelry, incense, posters. From Wordnik.com. [review of the chet helms memorial stomp] Reference
"Did you ever read that story of Kipling's where he says, 'Regiments are like women -- they will do anything for trinketry'?" inquired Nancy, calmly. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
For this food, we pay in trinketry-beadwork, badly constructed jewelry, leather goods-which they, in their simple-mindedness, are avid to obtain for their personal adornment. From Wordnik.com. [A Heritage of Stars]
The two partners in good luck divided their spoil amicably and fairly, except that the Moor, who had a little taste for trinketry, made out to get into his heap the most of the pearls and precious stones and other baubles, but then he always gave the water-carrier in lieu magnificent jewels of massy gold, of five times the size, with which the latter was heartily content. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
And all the golden trinketry she won at Heaven Gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Road to Paradise] Reference
If you don't have such a photo, the hotel is searching for other trinketry, receipts, and stories of days gone by at the Del. From Wordnik.com. [NBC San Diego -] Reference
She had been able to get plenty of credit for gowns and trinketry from a harpy class of West End tradespeople, who speculated in. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
And here, sweet, I have brought you some trinketry which you shall wear at the feast: a part is for Grace Blackiston, and a part for you. From Wordnik.com. [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference
Shiny disingenuous trinketry is being waved in your face with the inference that loyalty and sacrifice is being called for and needed - we're all together in this, right?. From Wordnik.com. [SiliconBeat] Reference
That sometimes, as Best remarked of the Hindoo dancing-girls, their ears were swollen from the innumerable perforations drilled into them to support their loads of trinketry. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
The next day they made their appearance with all their effects; the man, a stalwart mountaineer, with a peculiarly game look; the woman, a young Blackfoot beauty, arrayed in the trappings and trinketry of a free trapper's bride. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
Little mercy the phylacteries and amulets, the bridle-spanglery of donkeys, the trinketry of women, his ancestresses once famous for beauty or many children -- little mercy the motley collection on the second shelf received from his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Bessie beamed radiantly, with her plump arms and shoulders set off by a white gown, and a good deal of rather incongruous trinketry in the way of birthday presents, every item of which she felt bound to wear, lest the givers should be wounded by her neglect. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
He opened his packs and displayed riches before them of which they had no conception; for in those days there were no country stores in those parts, with their artificial finery and trinketry; and this was the first peddler that had wandered into that part of the wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
From a very early age, the ears of Hebrew women were prepared for this load of trinketry; for, according to the Thalmud, II. 23, they kept open the little holes, after they were pierced, by threads or slips of wood: a fact which may show the importance they attached to this ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
Pete Doherty's, er, 'trinketry' in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
At home her trinketry, how shall her scent disguise?’’. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
They will do anything for trinketry. ". From Wordnik.com. [Indian Tales] Reference
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