pinchbeck heroism.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : pinchbeck heroism.    From Dictionary.com. 

Outdates the sham jewels, rouge, mirror and pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850] Reference

They tinkle with their pinchbeck, they jingle with their gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

He has a sort of pinchbeck watch; ditto, ring; ditto, eyeglass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

These we use not: but the worthles pinchbeck coins of yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frogs] Reference

These we use not: but the worthless pinchbeck coins of yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frogs] Reference

My rams have only pinchbeck bells, he calls them rich cattle; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference

There are pinchbeck imitations which are neither sacred nor helpful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

Then he looked at the wagon again, and at a pinchbeck watch he carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

You cannot pass off pinchbeck as fairy-gold, especially to the fairies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quakers in Spain] Reference

But the pinchbeck sobriety of later times was unable to tolerate her freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference

It is only pinchbeck that perishes under the acids of satire: gold defies them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

It was a pinchbeck world, of pretence and pull, -- that world that lies drowned out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference

What are called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally of pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

When she was good, she was as good as gold, but when she was naughty, she was as naughty as pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892] Reference

The other day, when her dear Mamma was away for the morning, it happened to be one of her pinchbeck times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892] Reference

He picked up the thin, gold wedding ring, and one delicate earring which might have been gold, or pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funeral In Blue]

The gilt of the world had not eaten into his soul; his heart was not as yet wedded to the splendour of pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

She grinned at him and put her hand up and touched a pinchbeck brooch at her collar and rubbed her fingers across it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

How long was it since he had heard that those pearls were artificial, — that those golden locks were only pinchbeck?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

The world sees him elegant and happy, and its envies his luxury; but this luxury is as deluding as watch-chains made of pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

How could he have supposed that the new heaven upon earth of his dreams would ever be constructed out of such pinchbeck materials?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

This is saying much for him; for how seldom is it that the hearts and souls of the young are able to withstand pinchbeck and gilding?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

They accept the thinnest gilt, the poorest pinchbeck, for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

None of the pinchbeck pedigrees and ormolu titles of the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endymion] Reference

The inventor allegedly made pinchbeck jewellery clearly labelled as such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed] Reference

"Beef!" said his companion, screwing a pinchbeck glass into his right eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

Not many years ago no really refined gentlewoman would have worn pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

Every part of social and domestic life is dedicated to the apotheosis of pinchbeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

We are in the humor to rehabilitate all things, and pinchbeck has now its turn with the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

Lord help the wretched woman playing hostess in such a pinchbeck bric-a-brac shop, if there were one!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

They represented a pinchbeck imitation of that regime in France which was happily swept out of existence by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

This feeling ran through the whole of society, and pinchbeck was considered as at once despicable and disreputable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

She had wit enough to know that; but then she had wit enough also to feel that she herself was but a pinchbeck lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

The bankers find that all the calculated advantages of the game do not balance pinchbeck parolis and debts of honourable women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference