It was one of the type known as “tourist” cars, a sort of brummagem. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
The brummagem politician ... oh, wait ... that would be redundant, wouldn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [snow gophers, plus...] Reference
You find yourself scrutinizing famous romances for the sudden slip that bares the brummagem nature of it all. From Wordnik.com. [The Way They Are] Reference
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies, wrote Twain, putting it a bit more elegantly. From Wordnik.com. [How some politicians stumble on science] Reference
Twenty-seventh Street toward the river, near which he could just see a single patch of vivid green trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Wright Mabies, and other such brummagem dons -- were utterly unaware of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference
But our New York brummagem "duchesses" of yesterday are less liberal in their condescensions. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891] Reference
The girl would accept a little thing like a genuine earldom, she was merely prejudiced against the brummagem article. From Wordnik.com. [The American Claimant] Reference
To-day one must put him where he has begun to put himself - not among the literary artists of English, but among the brummagem prophets of England. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
No novelist could have smaller likeness to the brummagem emotion-squeezers of the Kipling type, with their playhouse fustian and their naïve ethical cocksureness. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
Here, at last, I had found something of the same talent in another medium; and I held the incompleteness, in these days of world-wide brummagem, for a happy mark of authenticity. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
The things of capital importance are habitually discussed, not by men soberly trying to get at the truth about them, but by brummagem Great Thinkers trying only to get kudos of them. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
In the sense of the poet Goethe -- that meek idolater of provincial three carat royalty and nobility -- our press is certainly bankrupt in the "thrill of awe" -- otherwise reverence; reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. From Wordnik.com. [The American Claimant] Reference
Anthony lay upon the lounge looking up One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street toward the river, near which he could just see a single patch of vivid green trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
All of our cities are full of brummagem aristocrats -- aristocrats, at all events, in the view of their neighbours -- whose grandfathers, or even fathers, were day labourers; and working for them, supported by them, heavily patronized by them, are clerks whose grandfathers were lords of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind] Reference
On the contrary, it has distinctly diminished their efficiency by inculcating in the literate proletariat, who constitute the cream of their class, a strong distaste for their hereditary mode of living and their hereditary callings, and an equally strong taste for shoddy superfluities and brummagem fineries, and for occupations of a more or less parasitic character. From Wordnik.com. [The New World of Islam] Reference
Today humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem. ". From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Brought up in modern virtues brummagem?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Eros] Reference
This is brummagem. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lesson of the Master] Reference
brummagem \BRUHM-uh-juhm\, adjective. From Wordnik.com. [snow gophers, plus...] Reference
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