Everything became a nick-nack in this curious room. From Wordnik.com. [The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
Pao-yü, literary persons and pretty girls are, for the most part, brought together in marriage, through the agency of some trifling but ingenious nick-nack. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Save up for one fabulous piece—whether it be a jewelled mirror, some sort of nick-nack or a beaded cushion—and display it somewhere that will draw the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Mates, Dates Guide To Life, Love, and Looking Luscious] Reference
It's also known as 'Arthur in my back garden syndrome' by often Welsh archaeologists who have to handle people who think they've found some Arthurian nick-nack or another in the area. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, by Christopher Gidlow. Book review] Reference
May sat down and fidgeted with a nick-nack on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Quisanté] Reference
Colourful and very interesting, you could spend hours just poking around doorways and little nick-nack shops. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Not a picture, not a nick-nack -- only your chandelier and your candelabra, which are by no means in good style!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
Huge, substantial, almost severe of aspect, it had all the importance of a palace compared to its neighbour, the dwelling of the artist, who was obliged to limit himself to a fanciful nick-nack. From Wordnik.com. [His Masterpiece] Reference
The Collector's Edition will have the usual stuff, with fancy packaging, a high end manual that includes artwork, a nick-nack in the form of a communicator badge, and a few guest passes for friends to play. From Wordnik.com. [Destructoid] Reference
Any person who had known the circumstances might have perceived that Wildeve was mortified by the discovery that the matter in transit was money, and not, as he had supposed when at Blooms-End, some fancy nick-nack which only interested the two women themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
And so the two old friends worked away, as merrily as school-boys building a rabbit-hutch, and in a few weeks 'time the old place was put to rights, and every nick-nack and every curio and souvenir and picture replaced in the drawing-room, just as it had been in the dear, reckless days of long ago. From Wordnik.com. [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference
Hsiang-yün was staying in the mansion, Pao-yü too was certain to hasten to come and tell her all about the unicorn he had got, so she thought to herself: “In the foreign traditions and wild stories, introduced here of late by Pao-yü, literary persons and pretty girls are, for the most part, brought together in marriage, through the agency of some trifling but ingenious nick-nack. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
We were wondering what could keep you home here mollyhorning about when you have made such a world-wide name for yourself in the nick-nack trade -- now, that's the truth o't. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
Played nick-nack on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Keach on the Creel] Reference
He played nick-nack at Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
A nick-nack in this curious room. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
Yet the crowd was denser now than during the morning hours, the frivolous contingent of visitors, including journeymen out for a holiday, a stray soldier or two come on furlough, village shopkeepers, and the like, having latterly flocked in; persons whose activities found a congenial field among the peep-shows, toy-stands, waxworks, inspired monsters, disinterested medical men who travelled for the public good, thimble-riggers, nick-nack vendors, and readers of Fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
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