For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. '. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6: Adumbrations] Reference
I had no problems w/the scent/aroma of da Quarter (aside from Bourbon St. which I generally avoid when in town - tho 'Yesteryear's always has some gewgaw I must possess). From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
He would stop at Feldman's Jewelry tomorrow and pick up a small gewgaw for her. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Novel about...Pembina] Reference
And you're taking tax dollars out of your community - and tax dollars, as you know, represent much more than a new book or CD or gewgaw. From Wordnik.com. [bookselling] Reference
Handsome settlements, and a chariot, that tempting gewgaw to the vanity of the middling class of females, were the least that she proposed to herself. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Women love their husbands, their children, their lapdogs, and the newest gewgaw they have purchased. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
Lynde was secretly the least bit disgruntled, for if he had won he had intended to take a portion of the winnings and put it in a necklace or some other gewgaw for Aileen. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Palin wondered what Lady Camilla would say if she knew that the reason the dragons were attacking in the first place was to try to steal the "gewgaw.". From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
It was perched on the arm of the Dead Man's chair, frozen solid as some stone gewgaw on a temple wall. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
Mine didn't have all these gewgaw jewels, but. From Wordnik.com. [War of the Twins]
When we were slipping into bed, I noted the absence of a gewgaw worn by every woman who doesn't want to hear little voices piping, "Mommy!". From Wordnik.com. [Bitter Gold Hearts]
"The rest is but tinsel and gewgaw;" so held Socrates, the philosopher wisest of men. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
"And that gewgaw you've got hanging around your neck," went on Mrs. Allen; "your fancy for that proves you a true barbarian.". From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Summer Days] Reference
At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05] Reference
To him probably, even in his youth, it had been a woman's gewgaw, useless, but allowable as tending to her happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
They can tell whether the gown was cut by the intelligent scissors of a Victorine IV.; they know a modish gewgaw or a trinket from. From Wordnik.com. [Gaudissart II] Reference
Palin may be too busy tending to her multimedia empire and thinking about a run for president to worry about a pocket gewgaw that uses her voice. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
We should try, whether the prodigal might not be restrained from taking on credit the gewgaw held out to him in one hand, by seeing the keys of a prison in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
If you seek these one-way experiences of the past -- where nothing short of dazzling gewgaw after dazzling gewgaw will do -- you're likely to be disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [PCWorld] Reference
You may have noticed that we're hardly perpetual rays of sunshine around here, but even so, we seem to spend a lot of our time enthusing about one gewgaw or another. From Wordnik.com. [Outblush] Reference
Gadget – Used as an indefinite or general name for: a comparatively small fitting, contrivance, or piece of mechanism / An accessory or adjunct; a knick-knack or gewgaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Friday Fillip — Slaw] Reference
I could not believe it, yet here you are, playing with a ... a gewgaw! ". From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
"My wonder-headed little Asticot," said he, "within those gewgaw Wonder. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
Did you describe this small gewgaw as a tool?. From Wordnik.com. [Chatting With Thoreau About Twitter] Reference
Had a keen eye for a painting or a gewgaw. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
4-year-old didn't have some foreign-manufactured gewgaw to distract him, he'd be diving underneath neighboring tables. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Because it is a gewgaw. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean] Reference
Disdaining gewgaw and fantastic show. From Wordnik.com. [Verse Memorials.] Reference
Me more delight than all the gewgaw train. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Such a glittering gewgaw, and not to be seen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757] Reference
Not a single gewgaw hangs off it. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off. From Wordnik.com. [All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy] Reference
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