If you find any, let us know and we'll document them through the day, with some kind of gimcrack rating. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
Fens and frogs and peddlers of hocus-pocus and gimcrack amulets!. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
By gene genie « gimcrack hospital PG on May 26, 2007 at 5:45 am. From Wordnik.com. [Supergerm eats your eyes out! « raincoaster] Reference
Now I see how flimsy and gimcrack the Great American Myth really is. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
She was already up the spout when you worked your gimcrack magic on me. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
Antryg paused in his pacing, toying thoughtfully with his gimcrack necklaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
What do you say if we take this money and buy her some little personal gimcrack?. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
“You do not suppose I am such a flat as to choose that velvet gimcrack there?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
Yad is what my BIL calls all these totally unnecessary gimcrack bits of novelty rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [Economising.] Reference
And the Marquis Azzo gave them my house as one gives a child a leaden gimcrack to stamp on. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
I hate modern villas, 'retorted Gwen,' with gimcrack walls and smoky chimneys and bad drainage!. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
"Cute little gimcrack, snake master," said Mudge, still grinning and walking toward the monitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
But Mr. Baudelaire, like so many artists today, has fashioned his work to illustrate a gimcrack theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Banality of Fake Profundity] Reference
Simple and to the point, none of this e-piracy gimcrack kerfuffle or worrying about who lent what to who. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Rambo] Reference
It was as though Idi Amin were on the mailing list of every gimcrack mail-order supply house in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
The people who donate 100 bucks so they can get the gimcrack with the PBS station logo on it will still be watching. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers and Inequality] Reference
He was dangling before her face a little twenty-first century gimcrack, a gyroscopic pendant or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
Women clucked and giggled; men disputed; in front was a crowd of flashy fellows with gimcrack jewels, like the man at Troizen. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The outer margins of exploration had spawned gimcrack empires by the dozen in the days when Earth seemed to be losing her grip. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
In fact, there was scarcely an inch of the Whipple house that did not contain some gimcrack whose main purpose was gathering dust. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
And one can see, scattered across India, gimcrack versions of Corbu's designs: schools, banks, museums, apartment blocks, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [India: The Perils of Democracy] Reference
Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
In stark contrast to the rest of the gimcrack establishment, the Games Room, which smelled pleasingly of beeswax, was in exceptional order. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
In a bossy but effective tone, Wharton laments the "superfluous gimcrack" and floods of "bric-a-brac" that dominated children's rooms in her day. From Wordnik.com. [Nestled in the Lap of Luxury] Reference
You've got an extra room in the gimcrack, yes? alantru. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
I expected you'd spend your money on some pesky gimcrack or other. From Wordnik.com. [Eyebright A Story] Reference
I want one for the gimcrack sheep get mentioned in films occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [gimcrack hospital (PG)] Reference
"You do not suppose I am such a flat as to choose that velvet gimcrack there?". From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Before you know it the area around the World Trade Center will look like some gimcrack. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
I should like to have you on the roadside instead of within these four gimcrack walls. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
Kensington, and it was furnished in a gimcrack way, with more show than real value, and with more color than taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Opal Serpent] Reference
Any little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
'When yer wants to start, jist pull that' ere gimcrack! 'said Baldy, pointing to the crook in the rod upon which his hand rested. From Wordnik.com. [The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies] Reference
But as for all that show-off and gimcrack-work, I tell you fairly it ain't what I call trade, and it ain't fit for a commercial room. From Wordnik.com. [Orley Farm] Reference
Garden of Woman; above the gimcrack windmill the real sky was grey; the wind wrinkled the surface of the Grand Lac in little wavelets, like. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
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