My neighborhood was filled with aspiring Blondies and Dagwoods, clotting their life's blood with knickknackery, soulless trophies, and the latest gizmos. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Mysterio lay in the ruins of the Empire State Gift Shoppe, surrounded by broken glass, fluttering postcards, and the assorted knickknackery of Tourist Central: snowglobes, stuffed animals in I Love New York't-shirts, plastic replicas of the Statue of Liberty with thermometers in them, and a life-size cardboard cutout of a talented lady dancer who had been foolish enough to devote the best years of her career to a musical which required her to put on tiger stripes and pretend she was a cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Sinister Six Combo]
And now I am home, with dinner-makings and a new piece of terrace-knickknackery, and the J’s are awake and the cat is healthy and hydrated and happy. From Wordnik.com. [inconsequentia] Reference
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