What women see in such gewgaws is a puzzler to me. From Wordnik.com. [Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice] Reference
Some are so foolish as to wear all the gewgaws they possess. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The gewgaws were of hammered tin and wicker and carved wood. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress of Justice]
A few wear beads and gewgaws, garments or fabrics from the West. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Bill Gates never speaks of his particular rich boy gewgaws and toys. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Rush Limbaughland: Where the Elite Meet to Bleat] Reference
What did he want with gewgaws? anything was good enough for an old soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Her house was crammed with Oriental hangings, statuary, furniture, and gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [Old Wounds] Reference
These young fellows put on all the gewgaws they can to make a show of importance. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
Marseilles brandies, flimsy taffetas, and indescribable variety of tinsel gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Of course, I am referring only to these accursed gewgaws, to these frills and fripperies!. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
Let the others keep their furs and laces and gewgaws, their great fortunes or great names. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Mephistophelean eye visible in the sparkling of those gewgaws and the sheen of that stuff?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
From an insatiable desire for gewgaws he has turned to a practice of the precepts of economy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Traders swarmed everywhere, selling food and gewgaws and cloth and spices, and, of course, wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Carrier feature requirements dictate the laundry-list of useless gewgaws that most phones sport. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
They are executed in silver-gilt or brass relief, and adorned with tawdry fringe or other gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Instead, we get more and more publicly funded gewgaws and shiny government novelties to distract us. From Wordnik.com. [The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall] Reference
The warehouses were strictly closed; and a few booths, with trifling gewgaws, were alone to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
York; ... a new cloak and boots and gewgaws ... a couple of fools together, that's what Ma called them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
I made her mad, I pampered her up with gewgaws and vanity; and then, because my idol was just what I had made her. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Laden with fish, food and gewgaws, the Chinese are welcomed by Kinmen locals, who hope for a more open China trade. From Wordnik.com. [Where Shells Rained] Reference
The scattered gewgaws, pitiable this morning, when gathered together and coherent, had turned heads the night before. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
You begin by offering me gewgaws -- the paltry price women set on themselves in the days of their intellectual infancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
That 'etagere' was Sidonie's very soul, and her thoughts, always commonplace, petty, vain, and empty, resembled those gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Strether seemed to make it out, from their position, between the interstices of arrayed watches, of close-hung dangling gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
What are all these gewgaws, these artificial flowers, these momentary joys, these pleasures of the sense, before the war of time?. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I wore satin, and ribbon, and shining buckle, for I carried those gewgaws in my cargo, but my finery did not shame my bride's attire. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
How inexpressibly mean and petty this devotion to rags and tags and gewgaws seems when one stands in the face of the Immensities and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
Could it be possible, that in speaking of a pure feminine heart, and youth and beauty, and such like gewgaws, the doctor was thinking of his niece?. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
This is, after all, a workie with access to a lot more ormolu gewgaws and Georgian plate than most and Granny and Grandpa can't leave everything to the corgis. From Wordnik.com. [This week: George Osborne, Stanley McChrystal and Princess Eugenie] Reference
My father has kindly presented me with the pretty gewgaws a girl loves — a dressing-case, toilet service, scent-box, fan, sunshade, prayer-book, gold chain, cashmere shawl. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Two Brides] Reference
In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
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