| 单词 | gewgaw |
| 例句 | Washington also advised blacks to spurn higher education, ridiculing degrees in Greek, Latin, and law as “ornamental gewgaws” and stressing the sufficiency of industrial education for his people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No place in town had more gimcracks, doodads, and gewgaws crammed into less space in a more orderly fashion than Onofre’s spread. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We have babies and then we buy—blankets, strollers, a playpen, a high chair, gewgaws, and contraptions. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z I’m skeptical about wine gewgaws that promise instant gratification, such as aerators that were all the rage a few years ago. Holiday gift ideas for wine lovers: Tasting kits, virtual classes, gadgets and wine TV 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Random subplots dangle from the plot like gewgaws adorning an “it” bag, often gumming up the works. Theater Review: ‘The House of Von Macramé’ at Bushwick Starr 2013-01-27T22:48:18Z The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble. Perspective | Where do you read books? I read at the mall. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Rose Byrne is the rapidly decompensating Medea of this stylishly updated version at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, replete with such modernizing gewgaws as roving cameras and giant video screens. Review | Beware. This stylish ‘Medea’ adaptation offers no escape, for Rose Byrne or for you. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The catch: There’s hardly enough space amid the jewelry and vintage gewgaws to find a perch. | Tokyo 2014-03-05T23:12:41Z Sotheby’s first positioned itself as a retailer in the late 1990s, when the venerable auction house appointed Dubin, then head of its fashion department, to organize a sale of vintage fashions and gewgaws. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But to be honest, what I really see, even after considering the issue further, is my cluttered gewgaw drawer. Screw-cap wines are growing. That doesn’t mean they require a new device. 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z At least the car shifts gears efficiently, rising above the crowd through the magic of designers Tim Hatley, Finn Ross and Chris Fisher — and outshining the less impressive gewgaws of this wholly ordinary musical machine. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Surely all the choicest tchotchkes and gewgaws won’t be gone by daybreak? Critical Shopper: A Trip to Brooklyn?s Dekalb Market ? Critical Shopper 2011-11-15T17:23:06Z It is Dec. 11, 2012, and the crazies are selling “Mayan apocalypse” gewgaws. Books of The Times: ‘12.21,’ a Novel by Dustin Thomason 2012-08-23T22:20:36Z Like an admiral on the bridge of a battleship, Mr. Zanchi surveyed from his cramped booth a sea of yachting journals, home decorating magazines and oddball gewgaws stretching before him. Abroad: When in Rome: Newsstands as Mini-Malls 2010-06-04T22:53:00Z This, despite the decorative gewgaws and a second-act crowd of spear- and fan-holders, holy men, warriors, and enough entertainers and stuffed parrots to fill the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z I remember them more than the video gewgaws. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Movie tie-ins have become ever more elaborate, and imaginative, since Burger King broke some ground in 1977 when it offered various “Star Wars” gewgaws with its wares. Medical Marijuana Tie-In for the New Film ‘Tusk’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z And how nice to see Cynthia Erivo — to really see the woman and not have her overwhelmed by an elaborate mishmash of ruffles and gewgaws. Perspective | The Golden Globes red carpet showed it’s okay to delight in fashion rather than just tolerating it 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z For a 1967 ballet called “Jewels,” you might expect ballerinas dazzling the stage like gleaming gewgaws. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z Instead, vintage paintings and chandeliers and rioting piles of antique-looking gewgaws crawl up and around the sides of the theater. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z A few years ago, apparently based on some agreement that Americans were seriously lacking monograms, retailers decided that any gewgaw that could be mailed, toted or gifted was worthy of an emphatic initial or three. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last time. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The homecoming mums were gifts you’d give your date: elaborate flowers with ribbons and football-themed gewgaws hanging all over them in your school’s colors. It's not me, it's you: six comedians on their best and worst love stories 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Such gewgaws tend to clutter a wine lover’s kitchen cabinets and drawers. What to give, and not give, to wine lovers on your list 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It is a Soundsuit, a work by the contemporary African-American artist Nick Cave, famous for his distinctive fabric sculptures covered in strange gewgaws and decorative exotica. From home of Wal-Mart, a world-class museum rises 2011-10-15T00:11:04Z Yet, if they won, they would be buying both the gewgaw and a print-out of the story. For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z Among many other objects, books, gewgaws, pieces of furniture and sculpture, most of which is handmade. House Proud: The Prince of St. Marks Place 2012-12-13T00:29:03Z Also, come on: Another quest for magic gewgaws? ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In an early scene that is repeated with several variations, the actors bark the names of commodities at one another and later trade assorted piles of gleaming jewels and gewgaws like children at play. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z In the 1970s and 1980s, the family was basically in the gewgaw business, pushing fancy decanters as retirement gifts and collectors items that just happened to hold the whiskey. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw . Style Invitational Week 1449: Let’s have a get-together 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z When I first read about Coravin’s new screw-cap toppers, my first thought was, “Oh no, something else to clutter my wine gewgaw drawer.” Screw-cap wines are growing. That doesn’t mean they require a new device. 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it. Review | At 95, Alex Katz is having another moment. His Guggenheim show is a knockout. 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point. ‘Black Adam’ review: Dwayne Johnson’s superhero movie sinks like a rock 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Mugs like this were part of a long American tradition, when retail loyalty was engendered with various baubles and gewgaws. Perspective | A vintage coffee mug sends me on a trip around the world 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Sure, the sets and costumes and gewgaws are fun to look at. Review | ‘The Gilded Age,’ the lavish period drama from the creator of ‘Downton Abbey,’ is all surface and no shine 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z From the collection of globe-trotting Loser Cheryl Davis, who deaccessioned several similar gewgaws on the E. This one doesn’t leak. Style Invitational Week 1472: Phony money 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z I actually screamed when Lisa showed up at Charlotte’s apartment in a rustic burlap sack covered in metal gewgaws. How terrible is the 'Sex and the City' reboot? We duke it out 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z This apparent stance toward art is at once moronic and apt; moronic because it reduces art to a mere gewgaw, apt because other entrepreneurs have already embraced this view. What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z It is only a matter of time before a flood of Juneteenth trinkets, tchotchkes, doodads and gewgaws shows up on store shelves. Opinion | Here come the Juneteenth knickknacks. Where are the lesson plans? 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Its budget shows, in the negative sense, and its best points are to be found here and there in small things — individual performances, selected exchanges and assorted old gewgaws and gadgets that decorate the screen. Disney's 'The Right Stuff' is an object lesson in how not to remake a classic 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Echoing Nevelson’s M.O., the “Occupant” sculptures consist principally of wood and encompass such recycled ingredients as chair parts, ornamental and architectural gewgaws, fragments of older Theater J sets, and a decommissioned spice rack. ‘Occupant’ at Theater J celebrates sculptor Louise Nevelson and her art — without actually using any of it 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z My wife is a proud Luddite, and doesn’t like tech for tech’s sake; we don’t have Alexa or HomePod or any of the talking gewgaws, no camera at the door. Tech’s Environmental Impact and What You Can Do About It 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The nihilistic gewgaw, vacuous and vulgar, instead embodies the mythos that can be manufactured in a crude market-culture that primarily values art as a luxury asset. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It only claims to own the trademark to the extent it appears on coffee mugs, T-shirts and some other gewgaws sold in gift shops. Back Story: ICYMI: The corporate grab behind the Yosemite trademark clash 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z When Woody spies his old friend Bo Peep’s lamp in the window of an antique store, he and Forky embark on a perilous attempt to find Bo among the shop’s gadgets, gewgaws and vintage playthings. Review | In a summer of stupid sequels, ‘Toy Story 4’ is a visually dazzling delight 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Instead, our indulged emperor children need to do their bit: make them dance for their numerous costly gewgaws. How to survive Christmas… one step at a time 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z To realistically grab some Big Market gewgaw, you need a force-feedback system. How close are we to building Valerian’s virtual Big Market? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Nest is clearly pitching it as a bit more stylish than the typical security camera, too, sharing images of the device perched alongside nice-looking gewgaws … No 'sex' please, we're a tech company: Nest's prudish smart camera launch 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z It was late October, and the truck stop was lavishly bedecked with the ghoulish paraphernalia of the season — plastic jack-o’-lanterns, cotton spider webs, wall-mounted witches on broomsticks and other festive gewgaws. 600 Miles in a Coffin-Shaped Bus, Campaigning Against Death Itself 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Certainly not a waning passion for shiny gewgaws of tech. Daily Report: Software Is Eating Your Christmas 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But he doesn’t let science get in the way of the dresses, the jackets or a few good gewgaws. For 2017, Chanel is embracing tech. First step: Bedazzling your geeky lanyard. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z All his energy goes into making the prizes for the contest, truly awful hats constructed from Dollar Store gewgaws. With a final toss of the hat, a famed Washington costume party calls it a day 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Clinton surely understands that “free college for all” and similar gewgaws won’t fix what ails us. What Are We Voting For? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding lovely highlights Tattoo, Our Love Was and I Can’t Reach You, Sell Out sounds studio-bound, fussy and thin, fattened up with gimmicks and gewgaws. From Kid A to Straight Outta Compton – five flawed albums that became classics 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Yes, there are some tatty boutiques selling awful Parisian gewgaws, and, yes, they push on to the pavement beyond what the rules permit. TV star Ardisson's battle to protect Parisian arcades - BBC News 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Adrienne Appell, a representative of the Toy Industry Association, which is holding its annual Toy Fair in New York starting Feb. 14, sees nothing incongruous about desktop gewgaws in the digital age. Designing Distraction: Executive Toys 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Top executives from technology and consumer brands met at a kind of convention over the convention, far from the floor and whatever gewgaw happened to be wowing the attendees. Deal Makers Invade CES, the Land of Geeks 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z One almost has the sense that Gady would be content to see La Samaritaine remain shuttered—sooner, at least, than see it become one more glittering gewgaw in the doll’s house. The View from a Bridge 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Even lunch over local craft beers at the museum’s Collection’s Café is a gas with all manner of Chihuly’s eclectic personal collection of gewgaws on display, from toy soldiers to mini-trains. Hotel Vintage And Other Big Kimpton Happenings In Seattle 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z More mounting gewgaws, specific to musical instruments and microphone stands, will be rolled out in April, along with a debut video by a band called Family Hang. GoPro Goes Big as a Hybrid Media Company/Videocam Maker 2014-03-13T21:57:28Z It might allow some bragging rights in advertising perhaps but those sorts of scores, bunched as they are, show that everyone’s pretty happy with their shiny gewgaws. Apple Beats Samsung In Korea, Samsung Beats Apple In The US 2013-08-02T14:17:00Z Until 2009, it used to announce its new gewgaws down the road at exactly the same time as CES, leaving the Vegas press room a ghost town for the first few days. CES 2013: Microsoft notably absent from Las Vegas show 2013-01-06T15:28:01Z I suppose them Barneys up on Fifth Street will every one of them be strutting and ballyragging 'round with gewgaws, and fixings, and such like things. The Misfit Christmas Puddings 2012-05-22T15:16:50.590Z Compare it for a moment with the gewgaw skimble-skamble diplomatic sensationalism with which we have been presented since. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Before it was partially levelled to build the gewgaw house that now stands on it, it must have been the finest monument of its kind in Ireland. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The effect of this tawdry finery is heightened by the gewgaws which depend from different parts of their persons. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Ulysses, disguised as a peddler, visited these women, carrying a basket full of feminine gewgaws. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z It was the sight of the girl and her gewgaws yesterday brought them--the villains! The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It had been prudent if the old woman had allowed no mention of those gewgaws to be made. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The little Jew looked up at me slyly, his grimy fists buried in the bowels of his gewgaws. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z "Here, you codger"—seizing one of the muleteers—"where be the gewgaws adiddled to?" With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Every man had a great bundle on his crupper, and some a woman; and every man rode gorgeous in silk or Genoa, or rich furs, with feathers and such like gewgaws. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Erin's cause will be none the less well served, I warrant, for fewer gewgaws on the persons of her sons. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z And all to buy his mistress some gewgaw. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z You know I care nothing for such gewgaws as birth or wealth or rank or station. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z "And the gewgaws for the rory-tory madams o' Spain—where be the gewgaws?" cried another of the seamen. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He may covet her fortune—perhaps her person too, as he would covet any other fashionable gewgaw; but he is safe from the witchery of her naif sensibility, her lovely singleness of mind. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z We are to remove wristwatches, bracelets, rings, necklaces and other gewgaws that might slip off during our pitching exertions. A Very Confetti New Year's 2007-01-09T16:35:00Z And Flutter-Duck, frightened into silence at last, sat on the sofa, dazed, in her trappings and gewgaws, with the white flowers glistening in her false hair, and her pallid cheeks stained with tears. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Stripped of the gauzy gewgaws of fancy with which you had complacently adorned it, it lay in its stark cerements of staring simplicity, a hard, terse, graphic, uncompromising fact. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The latter species of expense, therefore, especially when directed towards frivolous objects, the little ornaments of dress and furniture, jewels, trinkets, gewgaws, frequently indicates, not only a trifling, but a base and selfish disposition. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z Old hats!—why, they sell new ones too, and wreaths of flowers, almost new, and ladies' caps—in fact, all the pretty gewgaws that women always dote on. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Save for the prevalence of the feminine touch, exemplified in gorgeous but meaningless trifles and gewgaws, it met the emphatic approval of The Phantom’s discriminating eye. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z As a refined taste is being cultivated, a growing desire is manifested to decorate the idols with splendid tinsel and gewgaws, which are admirably calculated to heighten the magnificence of the scene in popular estimation. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Here again the gewgaw of royal parade was intended to entrap the admiration of the ignorant. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The Gray Phantom is the only man I know who would pass up some fifty thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds after taking the trouble to steal a gewgaw worth about two bits.” The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Why must he bring into her life the gewgaws of civilisation, the tales of wonderful cities where she would be happy, and shine like a meteor in a heaven of celestial beauties? An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z When Edial school broke up, he tramped with Johnson to London—the master with the poor tragedy of Irene in his pocket, and the boy with such gewgaws and pence as he could rake together. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z "Only four times, Sister Rachel!" observed the afflicted one, in a tone of remonstrance, "one, two, three, four," checking them off on her poor fingers, covered with worthless gewgaws. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z And as for the rest, the room which you have given me is too handsome; I don't like such gewgaws; this fine furniture and these soft beds are good for women. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z He had a tray containing bangles and necklaces and gewgaws, made in Germany, which he was selling as oriental works of art. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Enormous turrets, bay windows, lofty ceilings, gold and vermillion, marble, iron and gewgaws, without end, without order, without taste, and without regard to adaptability, business or convenience meet the eye on every side. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z Young girls part their hair into a multitude of tresses, and instead of the veil wear a little red skull-cap bedizened with bits of metal and all sorts of gewgaws. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z ‘You are looking at these gewgaws,’ she said, and took a diamond circlet from her finger. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z What a number of trinkets and glaring gewgaws are dangling in her hair and about her neck! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z No wonder she despised his scraps of ribbon, his paltry gewgaws, and odds and ends of rubbish. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z How fine Mary looked in that grand dress, wi' all them gewgaws, rings,—chains an' bracelets, all pure gold! Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z They were governed like children, who are extravagantly supplied with gewgaws, to prevent their crying. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z How familiar they are—all her toys and gewgaws! Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Regina saw that the ring was beautiful, but, womanlike, her eyes wandered to the other gewgaws displayed in the window. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z For the man she could love, Ethel would pull off all her glistening gewgaws, put away from her all the accessories that wealth could give her. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z What signify the silly, idle gewgaws of wealth, or the idle trumpery of greatness? The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z The truth of the matter is that all the metrical features that are demanded of poetry belong to the ornamental requirements like metaphors, myths, rhetorical flourishes and all other gewgaws. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z “I reckon ’tis some gewgaw of the young ladies. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z All the tribal heirlooms were in the display, the cherished gewgaws, trinkets, arms, apparel, and finery they had saved from the fate of which they will not admit they are themselves the victims. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z How fine Mary looked in that grand dress, wi’ all them gewgaws, rings,—chains, an’ bracelets, all pure gold! Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z He had looked upon the throne of Castile as a gewgaw to be surrendered with indifference, and steamed contentedly to Italy to enjoy his comparatively obscure Dukedom and rank of General in preference. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Strauss will meet the press in the little cinema at the back of the museum, the reliquary for the assorted gimcracks and gewgaws that the MCC has acquired over the last 146 years. Andy Bull on why the Ashes matter 2010-10-27T09:45:00Z They respond to the smallest perks — like an old George Formby movie or a rummage sale of gewgaws — with an infant's innocent rapture. Never Let Me Go: Everlasting Love 2010-09-18T06:05:00Z This is, after all, a workie with access to a lot more ormolu gewgaws and Georgian plate than most and Granny and Grandpa can't leave everything to the corgis. This week: George Osborne, Stanley McChrystal and Princess Eugenie 2010-06-25T23:05:00Z But despite the enthusiasm for security gewgaws, there was little unanimity about SB1070 at the exposition. Arizona Law Enforcement Split on Immigration Crackdown 2010-04-30T08:00:00Z Probably, it should be noted, a similar brief to the foods these gewgaws often accompany. Is the end of the Happy Meal in sight? 2010-04-28T17:00:00Z I am not a French popinjay to be dazzled by your gewgaws from Versailles.” The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec "It is too gaudy for you, with all these gewgaws on it," she awkwardly explained, when she noticed that Tilly was watching her. The Cottage of Delight A Novel It reminds me of a drunken gawk, who swaggers along and carries the foolish gewgaw for a show. The Progressionists, and Angela. A lot of money for gewgaws—to hang upon a woman’s body. The Missioner What may that gaudy gewgaw lady be, that throws such scornful looks upon our galleries? 1st Boy. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 There are graver matters pressing than gewgaws and finery and personal indulgence. Under the Mendips A Tale The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home society, contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Too thin possibly, for on arrival home one morning from what she called her marketing, the little gewgaw, valued for ornament and use alike, was gone. Helena Brett's Career Save for a few birds’ claws and a bladder or two fastened in his thick wool—for he was not ringed—he was destitute of the revolting gewgaws of his profession. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising In Virginia the women were free, untrammelled by public sentiment, to indulge their taste for gay apparel, to trick themselves off with all the gauds and gewgaws that fashion could invent. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) He had piled rich gifts upon Anne, but her greed for costly gewgaws was insatiable; and when the preparations for her visit to France were afoot she coveted the Queen’s jewels. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History It is true that all through history, even in biblical times, moralists and preachers inveighed against the gewgaws that woman loves. The Intelligence of Woman It would, however, have been much better for us if these vessels had never arrived, for the whole of us got greatly into debt, by purchasing various articles of wearing apparel, and Spanish gewgaws. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Plutarch records a saying of the Spartans, that when Aphrodite passed over the Eurotas River she put off her gewgaws and female ornaments, and for the sake of Lycurgus armed herself with shield and spear. Greek Women Here the Lancashire witches, as the beauties of the county are called, walk, and talk, and buy gewgaws of an afternoon. An American Girl Abroad Gravelines was a poor place, but Charles had other ways of influencing people than by piling up gewgaws before them. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History This passion for covering their persons with gewgaws is as old with these people as the ancient city of Anuradhapura, where the same custom prevailed among the Singhalese two thousand years ago. The Pearl of India "But we cannot take service with all our silk clothes and gewgaws," said Pirka. Pretty Michal She sat down and spread the gewgaws out before her on the dresser. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure Her money was running short, and that morning in a bazaar she had seen all kinds of pretty gewgaws. Their Son; The Necklace The hunter takes these to the store, and, after much travail and advice, exchanges them for winter supplies and gewgaws that strike his fancy. The Wilderness Trail The author saw women, who were acting as nurses to the children of European residents, wearing all these gewgaws as described, the gross weight of which must have been considerable. The Pearl of India “From the size of that fellow, you could cut out enough hide to make all the belts and other gewgaws that could be used if you lived to be as old as Methuselah.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold You come here now, perhaps, to compare it with the house of gewgaws which you have built, and in which you dwell.” The Moving Finger At another the wedding-cake was stuffed with expensive gewgaws, and as it weighed a quarter of a ton it was conveyed on silver tram lines up and down the table or buffet. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements Officers, I can now affirm that there are no narcotics, explosives, or shoplifted gewgaws in my son's bag. Little Brother In vain is the young student compelled to produce a certain number of school copies of Michael Angelo, when his bread must depend on the number of gewgaws he can crowd into his canvas. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Then you will be so busy “saying it” that 71you will not have time to bother about the gewgaws of writing. The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising "We have a few simple gifts here," Fannia added, placing the gewgaws at the king's feet. Warrior Race They were the foundation of such dignity as her life had known; but the gewgaws time had flung at her she did like, in these lean years, to finger over. The Prisoner And every Saturday night, after beating the hoof in the country and making such fabulous profits on their false Holy-Land gewgaws, they return to their cellar happy and content. The Book of Khalid It is a new fashion, and I said when thou wert old enough for rings and gewgaws there is all thy mother's. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia My wonder-headed little Asticot," said he, "within those gewgaw Wonder Houses——" Then he stopped abruptly and waved me away, "No. It's a devilish good thing for you to have something your imagination boggles at. The Belovéd Vagabond For what, after all, do these coronation halls and gewgaws amount to? The Land of Thor She wondered what Madame Beattie thought she could get out of giving up the adored gewgaw into other hands. The Prisoner Directly behind them is Dame Religion with her heavy ruffled robes, her beribboned and belaced bodices, her ornaments and sacred gewgaws. The Book of Khalid The warehouses were strictly closed; and a few booths, with trifling gewgaws, were alone to be seen. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Let the others keep their furs and laces and gewgaws, their great fortunes or great names. The Invader A Novel You begin by offering me gewgaws—the paltry price women set on themselves in the days of their intellectual infancy. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius And now, do you wish to adorn your pretty self with any of these gewgaws? Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure In the corner opposite the stove is a little altar with the conventional icons and gewgaws and a number of prayer books lying pell-mell around. The Book of Khalid ‘You can have Abraham Lincoln and the spring waggon this afternoon, if you want to go to the village for your gewgaws.’ A Princess in Calico At a Railway Monarch's splendour Envious squires and nobles stare; Even the Hebrew gewgaw vender Turns sharebroker in despair. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. At scores of wayside shops tiny idols of the Hindu hierarchy, and silver bracelets and gewgaws, are sold to people almost infantile in their cheerfulness. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan This time Meroë did not push away the gewgaws with her foot. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death Have I not misrepresented my gewgaws as the atheist misrepresents the truth? The Book of Khalid To him probably, even in his youth, it had been a woman's gewgaw, useless, but allowable as tending to her happiness. The Vicar of Bullhampton In Paris these trifles, such as vegetables and heads of animals and other gewgaws, pass for favors, as well as to lend a variety to the cotillon. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men Apparently Irving received the great Jeffrey with courtesy and composure; as an equal, and not in the least as an idol to be propitiated with gewgaws. Washington Irving “And that gewgaw you’ve got hanging around your neck,” went on Mrs. Allen; “your fancy for that proves you a true barbarian.” Patty's Summer Days He presented her with a blue mantle, a looking-glass, and other gewgaws, which she received with an expression of profound contentment. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century All the peasantry came in, covered with religious gewgaws, and the streets were crowded. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I In such places every utilitarian element is wanting, and the gilt ginger-bread and gewgaws are only a speciously innocent attraction towards the drinking and dancing booth where the mischief is done. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis We will take off your steel toys and gewgaws by-and-by. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War She will grow into an idle fine lady, like this very Mrs. Peyton, who throws about her gewgaws at every whim. Fernley House He scratched his curly head, staring at the gewgaws. The Reckoning Entering the Indian country the leaders held a council with the Ottoes and Missouris, and by the distribution of gewgaws and presents won the good will of the red men. Deerfoot in The Mountains But few of these are goods which make much show in a Fair; three cases of Parisian gewgaws will outshine in an exhibition a million dollars' worth of admirable and cheap Muslins, Drills, Flannels, &c. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. By collusion between officers and clerks in Blumenburg's office, and the substitute brokers, the substitutes were induced to invest in valueless gewgaws, sometimes paying for a two-dollar Oride watch as much as one hundred dollars. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After For the moment I thought it was the sight of the gewgaws this bale contained that had roused the cupidity of the barbarians; but now I believe otherwise. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine As for Eastern Christianity, bedizened with the gewgaws of paganism and bedevilled by the maddening theological speculations of the decadent Greek mind, it had become a repellent caricature of the teachings of Christ. The New World of Islam There were stalls also for the sale of patriotic songs, cockades, tricolour ribands, purses, pinchbeck watch-chains and all sorts of cheap gewgaws. The Gods are Athirst She wasn't talking then about white hats and wide ribbons and feathers and gewgaws. A Little Girl in Old Boston I have not the time to pause Upon these gewgaws of the heart. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry I don’t feel as if I should ever care again for the gewgaws and the merrymakings that I used to think all the world of. The King's Daughters France, with her bonnet rouge and fraternity, dispatches her Rouen cottons, Marseilles brandies, flimsy taffetas, and indescribable variety of tinsel gewgaws. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver I would like those tip-top; but I don't know—it's a good deal of money for gewgaws; my wife would take me to do for it; I guess I must keep to the two-dollar ones. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" And now she was like some medieval chatelaine who, emerging from a dark and lonely castle, views all the gewgaws that a far-wandering peddlar has spread out for her in the sun. Sacrifice What are all these gewgaws, these artificial flowers, these momentary joys, these pleasures of the sense, before the war of time? The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Because, as methinks, such tawdry gewgaws be unworthy a Christian profession. The King's Daughters Cease," cries the church through the poet to the French princes, "cease to load me down with gewgaws, with chalices, crosses, and sumptuous ornaments. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 There were braided or woven baskets of all sizes and every hue; there were beaded skins and frippery of feathered gewgaws and moccasins and miniature canoes and plaques of birch, hand carved. Joan of Arc of the North Woods "I imagined you'd be wearing your gewgaws for breakfast this morning just to show they were all right!" The Lion's Mouse No, said I, I would not take thy poor gewgaws for a gift. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century From an insatiable desire for gewgaws he has turned to a practice of the precepts of economy. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens They'll give ten times the value for some little gewgaw to wear about 'em. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys They were victualled for eight months, and laden with all sorts of apparel, gewgaws and baubles proper to trade with the inhabitants of the country whither they were going. The Settlers A Tale of Virginia But on this taste it depends whether vulgar ornaments and gewgaws, frivolities and bazaar-horrors, are to satisfy the desires of the soul. The New Society How the soul of womanhood is dwarfed and shriveled by such trifles, kept away from the great fields of active thought and love by the gewgaws she hangs on her bonnet! Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. As I gazed on the rich tissues and golden insignia, I mourned for poor corrupt human nature, to which alone such gewgaws could be acceptable. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland These young fellows put on all the gewgaws they can to make a show of importance. Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 He made the most of his little opportunities and collected various pictures, tapestries, enamels, porcelains, and similar gewgaws. The Tragic Muse Tinsel ornament, or gewgaw decoration should never be permitted on any building where the sober enjoyment of agricultural life is designed. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings The savage is fond of gewgaws, glitter, paint, feathers, colors, mere show, with little or no reference to utility or taste. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. They include―give, get, gill, gimlet, girl, gibberish, gelding, gerrymander, gewgaw, geyser, giddy, gibbon, gift, gig, giggle, gild, gimp, gingham, gird, girt, girth, eager, and begin. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric They are executed in silver-gilt or brass relief, and adorned with tawdry fringe or other gewgaws. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Her wardrobe all gossamer lace and quaint frill and crimp and embroidery, her house a museum of elegant and costly gewgaws; and amid the whole collection of elegancies and fragilities, she, perhaps, the frailest. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 The ornamentation that does not cover strength is the gewgaws of babble. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry A woman in full street Dress, with her profusion of ornaments, her flounces and fly-about gewgaws, is a very poor representation of good sense, refinement, and cultured, classic taste. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. They bring all kinds of foreign goods adapted for Chinese wants—cheap pistols and revolvers, mirrors, scales, fancy pictures, and a thousand gewgaws useful as well as attractive—and they return with opium. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Lightly they threw away all the baubles and gewgaws civilization had fashioned for adorning and disguising their raw humanity, and the habits of civilization as well. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 The church was stuffed with gewgaws and tinsel; marble was replaced by painted plaster and saintliness by sickliness. The Age of the Reformation Ignorance engaged in the work of making Degrees, and trifles and gewgaws and pretended mysteries, absurd or hideous, usurped the place of Masonic Truth. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Half the stately interior of that glorious thirteenth century pile is encrusted and overlaid by hideous gewgaw monstrosities of the flashiest Bernini and baroque period. Post-Prandial Philosophy Some are so foolish as to wear all the gewgaws they possess. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' I confess that I yielded myself to the pleasure of purchasing some gewgaws, which I afterward gave to Flora, while mamma looked at the glass and plated ware. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) How inexpressibly mean and petty this devotion to rags and tags and gewgaws seems when one stands in the face of the Immensities and the Eternities! The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 He walked down the line, greeting people by name, shaking hands, marveling at the gewgaws and gimcracks that he, after all, had found in some nighttime dumpster and brought back to be recycled. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town His love of gewgaws, of titles, of uniform, of dress, of feathers, of decorations, of Highland kilts, and stars and garters, is but one external symbol of his lower grade of mental and moral status. Post-Prandial Philosophy In one hand our dandy carried his white gloves, in the other a lace gewgaw heavy with musk, which he fluttered in the face of every shopkeeper's daughter. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Burr's mother had not seen any of the dainty bridal gewgaws, but that she kept to herself. Madelon A Novel Gudrun was such a woman of state that at that time whatever other women wore in the way of finery of dress was looked upon as children's gewgaws beside hers. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic With bracelets, bonbons, and other gewgaws for your interesting friends, I must say your enjoyment of this prospective Twenty-fifth of December is somewhat reduced. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays With her delicate prettiness, decked in what gewgaws she could afford, Elvira stood shaking her forefinger. The Mormon Prophet He never seemed to know what o'clock it was, and yet he had a watch, hung in chains, and gewgaws, like a lady's chatelaine. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour The thoughts and the dreams with which I bought the gewgaws profane them in your eyes while I am alive.” Madelon A Novel We should try, whether the prodigal might not be restrained from taking on credit the gewgaw held out to him in one hand, by seeing the keys of a prison in the other. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 I wore satin, and ribbon, and shining buckle, for I carried those gewgaws in my cargo, but my finery did not shame my bride's attire. Montlivet Where is that faded garment? where The gewgaws thou wert fond to wear, The star—the string—the crest? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Cæsar, This rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 You remember—the gewgaws which I—showed you, Madelon—the feathers and ribbons and satins, and the other things? Madelon A Novel But now, with all these silly gewgaws, you will be worse titan ever. The Rebel of the School "Mercy!" said her Grace, looking down at the tower of powdered hair decked with gewgaws. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality There was a very substantial profit in the transaction, for he paid the natives in commodities—coloured cotton cloths, pipes and tobacco, guns and ammunition, household utensils, cutlery and glass gewgaws. The Ragged Edge Put on a big, two-story bearskin cap with a red ribband tied around it an' bring plenty o' gewgaws. In the Days of Poor Richard There was no display, no purchase of gewgaws—merely garments of good quality, such as became people in easy circumstances. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages "Did your shipmates talk much of me?" demanded Paul, with a look as of a parading Sioux demanding homage to his gewgaws; "what did they say of Paul Jones?" Israel Potter Arthur was standing with his back to the door when she came in, and going up to him, she said: 'Here I am in all my gewgaws. Tracy Park Jest because she don't care for gewgaws like you do, you think she's a fool. The Girl from Montana They sprawled about and smoked, drank, and bought candy and cheap gewgaws. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel I am beginning to understand why the meager lunches of preserve-sandwiches and pickles more than satisfy the girls whom I was prepared to accuse of spending their money on gewgaws rather than on nourishment. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw, and what was born of the million went back to them and charmed them, for it was after their own heart.... Recent Developments in European Thought To wear a weapon with intent to use is one thing, to buckle it on as a mere trivial, harmless, modish ornament and gewgaw is quite another! Lewis Rand The Lord knows that though only the wife of a poor parson, you might throw for gewgaws with a bona roba! Audrey Why, in this respect, that all that lot of chains and gewgaws might be worth some ten or twelve crowns. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes It looked cold and gray and desolate, like all the cemeteries of Brittany, but it was made hideous neither by tawdry gewgaws nor the license of time. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories They should give them better advice; and instruct them to cultivate other and worthier attractions than the poor gewgaws of DRESS! Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness I had committed grave offence against God, but perhaps if, putting gewgaws aside, I should give my all for this cross, he would call the account even. Helmet of Navarre Your modern girl?—of the intellectual sort—quite unmoved by gewgaws! The Mating of Lydia He opened it, and saw those childish gewgaws, but had no idea what they could mean. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Much good may do the adventurers, drawn in by gewgaw and title!—Poor things!—But convenience, when that's the motive, whatever foolish girls think, will hold out its comforts, while a gratified love quickly evaporates. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) When, therefore, one finds mountaineer nomads, it seems superfluous almost to describe them as being arrayed chiefly in gewgaws and bright-colored clothes. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Among other things, came to light brass jewelry,—Rag Fair gewgaws and baubles a plenty, more admired than all; Annatoo, bedecking herself like, a tragedy queen: one blaze of brass. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as a gewgaw. The Pleasures of Ignorance Master Cale would rather the child had not had these gay gewgaws forced upon her; but he could not chide overmuch when he saw the brightness of her eyes and the eagerness upon her face. Tom Tufton's Travels He had declared that the gewgaws of office delighted him not; and I dare say he would fain bring his mind to believe that all ceremonial was idle, perhaps contemptible. The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 As the groups of women walk about, their toe-rings and ankle-ornaments jingle against the marble, and their particolored raiment and barbarous gewgaws look curiously out of place here. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Antonyms: paste, strass, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, pinchbeck, gaud, bauble, foil stone. Putnam's Word Book She was keen enough where her own particular interests were concerned, and the sellers of artificial jewellery tempted her with their sparkling gewgaws not at all. Five Nights Anything of silk, Tinsel, and gewgaws, if he bore that name, Might have received me for the asking. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini In desperation she decided to make a tentative exploration of the shops now burgeoning with Christmas splendor; every window a spasm of gewgaws. Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents There is not a handsome woman aboard, and they show the lingering traces of Russian barbarism by wearing beads and gewgaws. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Eve was an infant; Eve was pleased with gewgaws; but Eve had found herself and he was well content to pay five hundred pounds for the look on her ingenuous face. Mr. Prohack Such authors enjoy in plenty the gewgaw known as happiness. The Author's Craft All this spread of the gewgaws of approaching nuptials seemed meaningless to him; bored him. The Vertical City “I shall not be much in the way of gewgaws just yet,” said Anne drily. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago They are fairly bristling with quite serviceable looking weapons, besides many of the highly ornamented, but less dangerous, "gewgaws of war" dear to the heart of the brave but conservative warriors of Islam. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Handsome settlements, and a chariot, that tempting gewgaw to the vanity of the middling class of females, were the least that she proposed to herself. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 He was vexed because he felt a weakness in himself that admired such "gewgaws," as he called everything relating to dress or artistic housekeeping. The Mystery of Metropolisville In course of time she saw every native craft despised, and instead of the fabric that her own fingers wove her children yearned for the tinsel and the gewgaws of the trader. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia “And you are dazzled with all these gewgaws of Court life, no doubt?” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago The other sides were taken up by the fabric and gewgaw venders, while in the centre stood the platforms from which the auctioneers offered treasures from the Occident. The Man from Brodney's The rum, the guns, the utensils and the gewgaws were irresistible temptations. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The other fames were very well, but they were paste to the precious stone, gewgaws to amuse simple persons. Sacred and Profane Love He is a man that ought to know something of the world, and past being duped by gewgaws and tinsel. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Over the fresh hearts and understandings of the young, notwithstanding his obscurities, his metaphysics, his contempt of gewgaws, he had established an extraordinary sway. Famous Reviews As to their walks in life: among them were clerks and guards from the bank, members of the native constabulary, Indian fakirs and showmen, and venders of foreign gewgaws. The Man from Brodney's It lacked all the plush and gewgaws of the parlor organ of commerce; such a modest, tiny gray box might easily have passed for a kitchen chest. The Happy Venture In a smaller man we might have deemed the change a mark of weakness, a sign of childish delight in gewgaws, titles, and trappings. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 We have no aristocratic grades, no titles of nobility, no ribbons, and garters, and crosses, and other gewgaws that please the great babies of Europe; are we, therefore, to take rank below or above them? Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. There is little need," said the monk, with a meaning look, "to fritter away the time in gewgaws which shall raise up the pale ghosts of hopes of early years. Nicholas Nickleby Let them sing songs, draw pictures, and make trinkets and gewgaws during the time they are not working in the fields. Down with the Cities She bought new toilettes and gewgaws and presents for her friends and relations in New York, and each package which was delivered at the hotel added to Sir Nigel's rage. The Shuttle They spelled epiphany, gaberdine, ichthyology, gewgaw, kaleidoscope, and troubadour. Laddie; a true blue story Two others oped their iron jaws, And waved their children-stealing paws; There sat their children in gewgaws; By stinting negroes' backs and maws, They kept up heavenly union. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Still, I would like to see her off the stage…without all those gaudy fripperies and gewgaws…merely from curiosity…. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Thus the secondary and tertiary industries, in manufacturing and supplying us with festivals and entertainment and trinkets and gewgaws, are able to scale the heights of prosperity, and the cities thereby continue their boundless expansion. Down with the Cities "Never mind your gewgaws," interposes real life; "what is to be done with the things in this drawer?" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 It ought to bring all courtiers on their backs: Such painted puppets! such a varnish'd race Of hollow gewgaws, only dress and face! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 That night, after I had delivered unto the doctor's wife her own, and disinfected the gewgaws in carbolic, I added two more subjects to my Never-again list—bicycling in Montana and 'dead hunts.' A Woman Tenderfoot Money can buy you nothing; you might leave gewgaws to other women. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Holding their twinkling gewgaws in their hands, those about to bestow honour came toward the seated lines, where expressions became feverish. The Magnificent Ambersons We seem to ourselves mere puppets, marionettes, strutting seriously through a fantastic show, and mistaking gewgaws for things of great price. Amiel's Journal I spent on such gewgaws a considerable part of my allowance, yet never exhausted Falco's lavish provision for me. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Well, if he were alive today they would employ him to make those gewgaws some people present to leading ladies and to the deputies of their district. Cæsar or Nothing "Why, sir, the things must be worth a little fortune!" says Parson Sampson, casting an eye of covetousness on the two morocco boxes, in which, on their white satin cushions, reposed Mr. Sparks's golden gewgaws. The Virginians The window of the 5—and 10-cent store! a tumble of gewgaws and candies and kitchen utensils. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago We need no Pericles who commissions statues and builds temples to Fame and Glory; Athens has enough of such gewgaws. Historical Miniatures What did he want with gewgaws? anything was good enough for an old soldier. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Of moderate stature, almost of middle age, and dressed nicely, without any gewgaws, which look so common upon a gentleman's front, he was likely to please more people than he displeased at first on-sight. Erema — My Father's Sin A large old-fashioned oaken table was covered with a profusion of papers, parchments, books, and nondescript trinkets and gewgaws, which seemed to have little to recommend them, besides rust and the antiquity which it indicates. The Antiquary — Volume 01 The crowds, tired eyed, shabbily dressed, bundle-laden, young, old—the crowds shuffle up and down, staring at gewgaws, and the love-me love songs follow them around. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He thought his staff would forego epaulets and other military gewgaws. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) The "Nightingale" has been in one of the those gewgaws, the Annuals; whether the other I sent you has, or not, penitus ignoro. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 The gewgaws clattered like castanets, as though in frantic expostulation, and the radiant spun-glass humming-birds quivered until we expected them to break from their elastic fetters and fly away. A Versailles Christmas-Tide I then displayed to his view some gewgaws and trinkets, at which he appeared perfectly delighted, and, with many signs and gestures, invited me on shore. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea They protect them, and manage their affairs, and know all their secrets through the confessional, and amuse them with no end of feast-days, and gewgaws, and puerile ceremonies. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin The purchasers had refurnished the house with tasteless gewgaws, and the spirit of gracefulness had vanished. A Romance of the Republic I'm going to buy you every gewgaw this side of the Mississippi. Gaslight Sonatas It's the last thing on earth that she would want, such a gewgaw as that. Five Little Peppers Abroad I perceived there were four squaws around me, one of whom, from her appearance,--having on many gewgaws and trinkets,--was the wife of a chief. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea He had with him some bales of cotton goods and a few gewgaws of various kinds and was bound, so he said, on a trading expedition into the back country. The Boy Aviators in Africa The land is sandy, and there is found here a root which dyes a crimson color, with which the savages paint their faces, as also little gewgaws after their manner. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 He found her uninfected by the rage for diversion and dissipation; for noise, tumult, gewgaws, glitter, and extravagance. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves They adorn themselves with feathers, beads of shell, and other gewgaws, which they arrange very neatly in embroidery work. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 I should doubtless please you, bedizened in this way; I see that you wear the stupid gewgaws which it is the fashion to wear. The School for Husbands So; pat the animal and lay your hand on the gewgaws, with which the Red-skins have ornamented his mane, giving your eye as it were to one thing, and your mind to another. The Prairie The baskets were piled with books, clothes, and gewgaws of all kinds; and 'twas the young gentleman that hawked his wares himself. The Splendid Spur We may make that as grand and as significant as we will, and expend too on it all our treasures in the way of gewgaws and wild beasts.' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face A year's income was paraded upon her back, and the trumpery jewels of three generations found a place on every part of her person where it is usual for fashionable folly to display such gewgaws. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Antichrist, tricked out in robes and gewgaws, is, by perverted minds, received as Christ.—Ed. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 As to collars, neckties, braces, waistcoats, black coats, rings, or any such gewgaws, they were not wanted on this island. Stories by English Authors: the Sea "Besides that she might bring herself and all of us into danger with those gewgaws." Under the Storm This Swiss woman is fond of gewgaws, he tells me. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Well, if you mean did he provide me with clothes and jewels and gewgaws and all such, yes. Yollop This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech, instead of adding a grace. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 He did not forget to take gewgaws and trinkets valued by the savage, as presents to the chiefs of the several tribes they might chance to meet. The Great Salt Lake Trail Above the lamps I observed some women's gewgaws. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter Man is an intellectual animal: he wants none of these gewgaws. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges Foolish old father! you thought I'd be carried away with city gewgaws, fine furniture, dresses, and all that sort of thing. Taken Alive "Well, I think she is as dead against us as a few dollars in gold can make a female who's fond of gewgaws, and ambitious to be a fine lady." The Dock Rats of New York Mr. Povey, to prove that his soul was above toys and gewgaws, continued to play the harmonium. The Old Wives' Tale And he's found some more gewgaws he's going to bring up some day. Felix O'Day “To the Jew with the gewgaw, then!” shouted a thin, haggard female viciously, as she suddenly clutched at the young girl’s kerchief, and with a mocking, triumphant laugh tore it from her bosom. I Will Repay The flashes of red and green from those rings and gewgaws which she held out seemed to pass my eyes to my very soul. The Heart's Highway Monstrously overdressed, and weighted with costly gewgaws, she came forward panting and perspiring, and, before paying any heed to her hostess, closely surveyed the room. The Paying Guest This afternoon his mother nursed him, but not until she had foolishly attempted to divert him from the seriousness of life by means of gewgaws of which he was sick. The Old Wives' Tale It may be that everybody delights in bits, in parts, that the public insists on noses, gaiters, white rabbits, bits of fluff, automata and gewgaws. Touch and Go As relations were strained, it became necessary to offer beads and gewgaws, with every show of good faith. The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain "Whoever could catch fish with such gewgaws as them anyway?" said Sandy scornfully, when a second attempt brought no better result. The Scotch Twins Still, there is a good deal of French flummery about her—brass plates and other gewgaws stuck on all over, like baubles on a handsome woman. Omoo The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society, contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Lynde was secretly the least bit disgruntled, for if he had won he had intended to take a portion of the winnings and put it in a necklace or some other gewgaw for Aileen. The Titan Domenichino slipped the leather strap from his shoulder, and set down his basket of pious gewgaws on the step. The Gadfly Could it be possible, that in speaking of a pure feminine heart, and youth and beauty, and such like gewgaws, the doctor was thinking of his niece? Doctor Thorne Her worth hath taught thee how little to prize these gewgaws! The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Cheap and tawdry enough were the commodities bartered for these wonderful beaver and otter pelts—ribbons and gewgaws, looking-glasses and combs, blankets and shawls of gaudy color. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond The white men landed, bearing a store of hatchets, gewgaws, and colored cloth. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws. The Fitz-Boodle Papers The crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,—their ambition and their spirit are undecayed! Zanoni In every corner of the mansion appeared a profusion of gewgaws, not yet familiar to English eyes. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth. Roundabout Papers I have brought—er—few trifles and gewgaws for my ward—subject, of course, to your rules and discretion. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories It ought to bring all courtiers on their backs: Such painted puppets! such a varnished race Of hollow gewgaws, only dress and face! An Essay on Man Is it because he can buy you gewgaws? Poor Folk Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, This rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy Unfortunately, I am a little brusque, and it happened more than once that I overturned her tables laden with porcelain and other gewgaws. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels She'd care little for money or gewgaws, but she'd break her heart to see her old father—come to this—broken down—worthless—a hopeless, miserable wretch. A Millionaire of Yesterday In the Latin Church there was no service going on, only two fathers dusting the mouldy gewgaws along the brown walls, and laughing to one another. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo Of course, I am referring only to these accursed gewgaws, to these frills and fripperies! Poor Folk I made her mad, I pampered her up with gewgaws and vanity; and then, because my idol was just what I had made her, I turned again and rent her. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth I've always managed to leave a customer some little gewgaw to paste in his scrapbook or stick between his Seth Thomas clock and the wall after we are through trading. The Gentle Grafter "So before long you'll get all his gewgaws," he added, rubbing his hands, delighted to be able to speculate on his daughter's feelings. Eugenie Grandet There is no gewgaw or parade about him, as in some of your dandified young Agas. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo This was where the money earned by honest workmen was spent, that women might gleam with such gewgaws. Dangerous Days Children work in "homes" on artificial flowers, finishing shoddy garments, sewing their very life's blood and that of the race into tawdry clothes and gewgaws that are the most unanswerable comments upon our vaunted "civilization." The Pivot of Civilization To imagine that the mighty forces of sin, death, and the curse can be vanquished by the righteousness of man's paltry works, by fasting, pilgrimages, masses, vows, and such gewgaws. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians The scattered gewgaws, pitiable this morning, when gathered together and coherent, had turned heads the night before. Gobseck Those hills produced gypsies who travel around cheating, dickering and selling gewgaws that are worth nothing. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it "Two hundred and ten thousand dollars I paid for that little bunch of gewgaws," said Markel, waving his hand again. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale There must be no feminine gewgaws to reveal to the Frau Doktor that it was not a purely masculine establishment. The Street of Seven Stars |
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