And we have what Virginia collects, the gee-gaws and gimcracks. From Wordnik.com. [Judging Lincoln] Reference
Ods-fish! they were none of your lower-form gimcracks, were they?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Golden eyes focused like lenses over winking jewels and gimcracks. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
I have paid off Moss every halfpenny for his confounded rings and gimcracks. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Do you and your office co-workers exchange pointless gimcracks each holiday season?. From Wordnik.com. [Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids] Reference
Such fugitive gimcracks as they had brought away with them decorated the little salon. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
"I believe so," she replied, in a tone of ineffable scorn, -- "a parcel of gimcracks and kimmeens.". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
We also saw a piece or two of tesselated pavement, with a lot of other gimcracks; but I certainly had to exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
You really expect me to believe your Vista system, with all the gimcracks and gewgaws enabled loads up in just 24 seconds?. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another Stack Overflow] Reference
Gouty old Lord Cripplegate wore a light blue silk dress, a lace mantle and other gimcracks, a white bonnet with roses, and ringlets as long as. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Incredibly, in a rich consortium of 30 franchises, nearly one quarter of all the NFL shirts and caps and other gimcracks sold bear Cowboy insignias. From Wordnik.com. [Why Cowboys Became Kings] Reference
John is quite the boy -- wise enough to see how ridiculous it was to put a fine, rich old carved chimney among a lot of gilt gimcracks -- and rather anxious to show his wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Gainsborough's gimcracks fell smashed on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
Gus put on no gimcracks nor did he make fancy swings. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In] Reference
We tried all manner o 'gimcracks an' fussin 'with her. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
My girl is taking me out shopping, to buy gimcracks and things!. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel As The Grave] Reference
Let me know if the gimcracks come safe -- I mean the book, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)] Reference
Expectation interspersed with gimcracks seems to be the programme. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
I'd forgotten the pretty stuff an 'gimcracks that mean so much to women. From Wordnik.com. [To the Last Man] Reference
'No, I see how it works; them' ere thingumbobs and gimcracks do it all. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies] Reference
She had less than a hundred, and she would have to carry home gimcracks instead of curios. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagan Madonna] Reference
There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their gimcracks and trumpery. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
Lashmar stretched his legs, smiled at the gimcracks shelved and niched above the mantelpiece, and began talking. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
It was therefore desirable to avoid all costly irregularity of form, and all the fanciful varieties of gimcracks. From Wordnik.com. [Woodward's Country Homes] Reference
If she had liked to buy gimcracks, they would have had that in common, and perhaps he would have been fond of her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
The great altar of the cathedral and also three or four minor ones are a perfect mass of gilt gimcracks and gingerbread. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
Sir Hans Sloane contributed of his own collection some of the refuse gimcracks that were to be found in Salter's "museum.". From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
It was a house, ma'am, in the West End, with the most illigant painted walls and cornices and gimcracks, idged all with goold. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Flames] Reference
It was a long canvas tent with a drinking-bar at one end, and stalls in the corners for the sale of gingerbreads and gimcracks. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
` Don't split sixpences, 'she saith; ` the bigger the charges the better, so long as they be for true comfort and not for gimcracks.'. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
"Come back, Alexia, and hand me some more gimcracks, do," cried Joel, poking his head out of the branches to look at his late assistant. From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers Grown Up] Reference
What corner cupboards there were filled with Dresden gimcracks, which it was a part of this little woman's business in life to purchase!. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
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