catchpenny ornaments. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
All the books I see make me sick -- only catchpenny nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This was no catchpenny coquetry; it was a genuine dread of undue familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
As I have remarked before, you should not be put off by the catchpenny title. From Wordnik.com. [Neal Asher: The Skinner] Reference
All in all, it was a fine conglomeration of gadgetry and dazzle, a truly high-level catchpenny. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
Don't let your lip curl at the catchpenny title -- the book contains much that would be of value to any writer. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Atkinson: Case Histories] Reference
Not surprisingly, swindlers and catchpenny schemes flourish. From Wordnik.com. [the Cucking Stool] Reference
Obama's got one interminable tinny tune with catchpenny hooks. From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
You know already by the title that it is no more than a catchpenny. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
As we progressed between the tents and the booths with their catchpenny. From Wordnik.com. [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference
Fortunate, indeed, is the famous man who escapes the catchpenny biographer. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
"The whole affair is a manifest catchpenny!" observes he, scarcely under his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference
I braced myself for a gloomy polemic on the catchpenny values of contemporary television. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Theirs is the aspect of the early woodcut; the coarse type and the catchpenny headlines are. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
It is horrible to hear the street criers bawling out in their catchpenny voices, “Serious illness of Lord Derby.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lady John Russell]
It's not a regular theatre; only a catchpenny show, got up by a Frenchman, who came from Singapore a fortnight since. From Wordnik.com. [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference
Mozart, or Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," or Schubert's Serenade, and other catchpenny tunes of the same description. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Their popularity is not of the catchpenny sort; thoughtful people read them, as well as the great drove of the undiscriminating. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
What this "gentleman" thought fit, was to publish them with a catchpenny title and an alleged extract by way of motto to sanction it. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference
They seem to be the last guys on the planet in love with the sound of his voice and their one interminable tinny tune with its catchpenny hooks. From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
It is enraging to have one's private family life shanghaied by catchpenny journalism: writers should be careful about narrating others 'lives, but few are. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
Nevertheless, the boys with whom he went to school never tired of calling him ` ` Pirate, '' and would sometimes sing for his benefit that famous catchpenny song beginning thus. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main] Reference
"vagrant friars preaching their catchpenny sermons.". From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
All the books I see make me sick ” only catchpenny nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century]
It’s a catchpenny sentiment, but it’s enlarged by the situation — by the fact of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Opting for Wit Over Sincerity] Reference
There are, I regret to say, many catchpenny places of entertainment, but I cannot conceive that they would entice you. ". From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
Don't be put off by the catchpenny title. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
"Brice, I want your play to be thoroughly honest and true from beginning to end, and not to have any sort of catchpenny effectivism in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
Is no catchpenny dream. From Wordnik.com. [Scribal Terror] Reference
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