| 单词 | gimcrack |
| 例句 | 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 The designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames. Summertime, and the Revivals in London are Breezy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z It is an eclectic exhibit — full of patent models, drawings, electronic gimcracks, medical devices, space-age wonders and high-end digital toys — and that eclecticism is part of the design museum’s charm. Cooper Hewitt design museum’s artful renovation matches mansion to mission There Will Be Blood was about entrepreneurial capitalism; was about entrepreneurial religion, gimcrack philosophy, prospecting for snake oil. The 10 best films of 2012, No 1 – The Master 2012-12-13T22:00:28Z From my little pod I surveyed a vast acreage of gimcrack houses and, beyond, the densely forested peaks of the mountains that surround Medellín. Medellín, Colombia: a miracle of reinvention 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Sovremennik seems to promise something more hopeful than either gimcrack Muscovite capitalism or equally ludicrous Soviet socialism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z The movie burnishes the image of this visionary C.E.O. even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In place of the intricate tissue of courtyards, lumpen gimcrack multi-storey blocks appear, without the slightest pretence of assimilation, and fronted by arid, gated aprons of tarmac. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z There our hero explains how realising the gimcrack nature of Ikea-like consumerism led him to choose another more spiritually enlivening lifestyle path, namely getting beaten crapless by strangers suffering the same white-collar existential malaise. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z With their showy, gimcrack splendour, his novels are the 19th-century equivalent of Hollywood tinsel. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z Not that the second season of “Downton,” a piece of gimcrack compared to the first, deserved all the affection it received. | 'Great Expectations': Gillian Anderson in ?Great Expectations? on PBS 2012-03-30T23:04:46Z 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 The spirit of the late 1950s was brash, gimcrack modernity. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z It's not a bad metaphor for mid-century Los Angeles; the city's gimcrack glamour is both inspiration for and backdrop to The Drowned Man. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z It developed a reputation as the dollar store of the internet, shipping odd gimcracks and thingamajigs directly from vendors in China. How Wish Built (and Fumbled) a Dollar Store for the Internet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Companies outside of the art world, meanwhile, are using digital technology to remake timeless masterpieces as evanescent gimcracks, as projected tourist attractions and animations. What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Imagine the damage such a salesman might do, stirring up dissatisfaction and unhappiness just to sell us a gimcrack agenda that we’d wish we had never bought. Opinion | Ron Popeil was an incomparable huckster — but wait! There’s more! 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The inevitable flood tide of gimcrack Biden souvenirs has yet to start in earnest, but there are some. After Centuries of Obscurity, Wilmington Is Having a Moment 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z There are “kilo” restaurants, where patrons pay according to the weight of their food; there is also a series of gimcrack Pentecostal churches, a red-light district, and a few seedy hotels. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z To call this tourist fare is merely to say that its appeal is generic and, yes, a bit gimcrack. Review: The Huey Lewis and the News jukebox musical 'The Heart of Rock & Roll' is more square than hip 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z He buried its imperfections under a pile of gimcracks. An Apartment Tour of Designer Billy Cotton’s Chelsea Pad 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Now plastic everywhere is thought such gimcrack stuff, ripe for landfill, and this attitude is passed off as naïve. Letter of Recommendation: AstroTurf 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The short's big gimmick is that it mostly takes place inside a nickelodeon owned by a more realistic bear, who lets a kid-bear peek inside the gimcrack to watch the story unfold. Live-action misery, animated joy: 2016's Oscar-nominated shorts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The central Seoul district of Itaewon, once a gimcrack preserve of GIs and expatriates, is now awash in restaurants that give new meaning to the word “fusion” — starting with their owners. Korean Americans transforming the food scene in central Seoul 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Some parson has erected here a new, intensely vulgar gimcrack house that almost touches the hoary ruins, it is so close to them. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z When I go, sir, my estate is to be cut up as our Democratic republican laws ordain; and my gimcrack and gingerbread can be plowed in as easily as the dockweed. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z Whether it was visionary or gimcrack was a question that long divided architecture critics. Melvyn Kaufman, Developer Who Shaped Manhattan?s Streetscape, Dies at 87 2012-03-25T02:45:29Z Little traveling shops in wagons came through the smaller villages in the northern part of the training area loaded with all sorts of gimcracks intended for the peasant trade. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z "Does my work really seem like gimcrack gothic?" he asked himself. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z There is not much "gimcrack" work turned out in England. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Thank God, no such treasonable design can be inferred from this gimcrack and gingerbread, as you wittily term it. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z Every corner was crammed with gimcracks; the whole place reeked of musty wool chairbacks. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z There must be a mint of money in an old barrack stuffed full of gimcracks like this. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z If that's all his religion meant to him—that ridiculous piece of gimcrack gothic, no wonder it wouldn't hold together. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z "He says you have no business to spend the small earnings you get on such gimcracks as 'old horse.'" The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z Strange as it may sound to the ears of some, gimcrack and gingerbread are the elements of our new Democratic theory. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z No gimcrack work about these villas, they are built of solid ornamentally-chiselled stone, built to weather the storms of centuries. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Now perhaps three yards separated us, she standing in the rain, I with her gimcrack of an umbrella. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z And every week or so he'd take a day off and go back home, to return with a fresh supply of tidies, and lace, and gimcracks. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z If you bang it, it's my belief the whole gimcrack will be about your ears. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It would be an acceptable present to a gimcrack great man in London that was his friend. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Well, according to rule, she came in, found fault with the clock, but took care not to have it altered to match her gimcrack French affair in her bedroom, which she always called her pendule. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z “Inventing gimcrack things like that,” said the fellow in a tone of contempt, “to try and take the bread out of honest men’s mouths.” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z He was, in truth, concerned for the reality of the matter; but yet the gimcracks, which the count had stuck round it, were, at the same time, quite adapted to his taste. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z I've pasted enough boxes and gimcracks to fill a young cottage. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z They are sonnets, very unlike the glittering rosy gimcracks of the preceding generation, but stiff with stately compliment and colourless art. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z "Have they got a 'catalog' of the gimcracks?" exclaimed a nasal voice that there was no mistaking. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z It was gaudily carpeted, uncomfortably furnished, stuffy for want of use and air, and crowded with gimcracks. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z There is gimcracks in't, the Queen is wise Above her years. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z Whenever we gathered in his house he would offer, unsolicited, to explain and exhibit a gimcrack he had made with his father's tools, and we did scarcely any studying. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z "As if I didn't know that every last gimcrack in this miserable room would fairly scream at him the moment he entered that door!" The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z "Now for the gimcracks—let's see 'em," said Mr. Dodge, as though eager to show how promptly he could respond to a graceful or generous action. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Whether it is a house or a human character, a binding or a book, it proves itself gimcrack and shoddy. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The quoted skeptics calling Bem's ideas gimcrack science, and in the ensuing controversy, he was invited to appear on CNN and The Colbert Report. Wait a Minute: ESP Is for Real? 2011-01-12T22:05:00Z 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 But the scars of the Soviet era, and the gaudy gimcrack results of 20 years of crony capitalism, are visible too. Journeying in eastern Europe: Planes, trains and extortionate taxis 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z "Some of the gimcracks are here before you," said Luttrell, making a rather awkward attempt to smile, as he repeated the word. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z I was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required. Witching Hill Michael shuddered as he looked at the gimcrack washstand through whose scanty paint the original wood was visible in long fibrous sores. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The world is full of cheap gimcracks, in this awful age, and they're thrust in at one at every turn. The Spoils of Poynton There, my dear, is a gimcrack thing David insisted on buying. A Top-Floor Idyl "I'll give you a thousand dollars for him down, Sir, and you shall keep the gimcracks." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Tall and erect in person, dignified in demeanour, despising gimcrack and chimney-pot hat counterfeits of civilisation, he was every inch a fine specimen of the savage ruler. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War "And I," said Thaddie, "would like to pull off his feather and his star: he's a fine fellow, and don't want them gimcracks." Black Forest Village Stories "What robbery have you been at with that white choker and that gimcrack waistcoat?" said Davis, sulkily. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Burgee's long, low house was indecently plain, without even so much as a gimcrack or bit of gingerbread decoration. Sugar Plum With the gimcrack little sheet copper binnacle in his hand, Mr. Spokesly made his way to the chief engineer's room. Command How does the creature know but I'm a lady that would buy half the gimcracks in the place, and he's not to be found! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life All the frail girlish ice was a gimcrack now. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl An amphitheatrical triumphal car was provided, and, upon it, were mounted O’Connell, his son, and the Rev. Dr. Miley, and this gimcrack piece of property was drawn by six horses ridden by postillions. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Carved ivory statuettes from the Far East, cameras from Japan, ebony figurines, chess sets of water jade, gimcracks from everywhere. Border, Breed Nor Birth As a rule, they are of a flimsy and gimcrack order of architecture. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction Rather unexpected, wasn’t it” 123 He then thought of what a fool he had been to give her back that gimcrack pistol. The Peace of Roaring River One by one Lizzie assumes her modest gimcracks: her bracelet, her gloves, her handkerchief, her fan, and then—her smile. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Here all is gay, but you feel it is gimcrack—it won't last. Round the Wonderful World I am an old fool to spend seven and sixpence on nothing at all but gimcracks to put into the Christmas stockings; but there, I must see 'em happy once again—I must—I will. Good Luck Sir Hans Sloane contributed of his own collection some of the refuse gimcracks that were to be found in Salter's "museum." All About Coffee Great was the popularity of the atmospheric system; and still George Stephenson said “It won’t do: it’s but a gimcrack.” Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Mrs. Turner’s daughter takes in all such gimcracks. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life She had less than a hundred, and she would have to carry home gimcracks instead of curios. The Pagan Madonna She's out there in the flowing arbor, sewing some gimcrack thing and pretending she hasn't been worrying because I was out on the course. From the Car Behind I expected you'd spend your money on some pesky gimcrack or other. Eyebright A Story Oh! thought George, he has come to try and talk Robert over about that atmospheric gimcrack; but I’ll tackle his Lordship. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson It was therefore desirable to avoid all costly irregularity of form, and all the fanciful varieties of gimcracks. Woodward's Country Homes 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. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time “And unknown!” said Kenneth, picking up various gimcracks of whose name or use he had no idea. Patty's Success So I’ll just place you on one of these gimcrack gilt chairs, and I’ll ask you to keep this one next, for me, until I make a raid on the table. Patty's Social Season ‘Don’t split sixpences,’ she saith; ‘the bigger the charges the better, so long as they be for true comfort and not for gimcracks.’ It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Gus put on no gimcracks nor did he make fancy swings. Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In For," said Sticky Smith, before they went aboard the transport at New Orleans, "if you dress a man in khaki, with some gimcrack on his sleeve and collar, you're level with anybody in Europe. Barbarians It’s more easy for them to hit a big object like our ship, than it is for us to reach those little gimcracks of guns.” The Three Commanders Our masons, though excellent workmen, are too little accustomed to the gimcracks of their art, to be trusted with the execution of a bravura plan, without constant inspection. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) My girl is taking me out shopping, to buy gimcracks and things! Cruel As The Grave Godfrey was of good presence, gentlemanly, elegant—never tying his cravat in a ring, nor starring his fingers, his wrists or his shirt-front with those jewelled gimcracks so dear to his fellow-citizens. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery “That’s like, with that ar’ spangled gimcrack!” said Garey, looking disdainfully at the other’s gun, and then proudly at his own brown weather-beaten piece, which he had just wiped, and was about to reload. The Scalp Hunters The more spacious front room into which his housekeeping quarters opened was a store of sorts where he retailed print goods staple, tinned foods assorted and gimcracks various to his customers, these mostly being natives. From Place to Place Let me know if the gimcracks come safe—I mean the book, etc. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) I hate modern villas,' retorted Gwen, 'with gimcrack walls and smoky chimneys and bad drainage! The Carved Cupboard If we put into Simon’s Bay, and there happens to be no rollers tumbling in, you will have time enough to put your gimcrack machinery to rights.” The Three Admirals You know, this gimcrack thing that was to do so much. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea A nice set you must be to give your gimcrack craft such a name as that! Fitz the Filibuster So, my dear, I made Mary bring the biggest tray in the house, and I filled it three times over with gimcracks of all descriptions, and sent them up to the box-room cupboard. The Heart of Una Sackville Mr Vane’s argument was that he preferred solid old-fashioned furniture to modern gimcracks, and had no wish to conform to artistic fads, and his daughters dutifully agreed, and—disobeyed! Big Game A Story for Girls There was nothing gimcrack to be seen, no one-and-elevenpenny ornaments, no imitations of any kind; despite its sloping roof and its whitewashed walls, it was self-evidently a lady’s room, and Janet’s admiration was unfeigned. The Independence of Claire “Nothing can be so annoying as to see common gimcracks aping me!” interposed the princess in the pink shoes. The Nürnberg Stove They had given him a bottle, and a glass about the size of a thimble; this gimcrack had amused Fougas, and he diverted himself by filling and emptying it a dozen times. The Man With The Broken Ear What do you say if we take this money and buy her some little personal gimcrack? Rosemary "I believe so," she replied, in a tone of ineffable scorn,—"a parcel of gimcracks and kimmeens." My New Curate If a gimcrack affair be wanted, for the purposes of ornament, or expense, any sum of money may be squandered upon it which the fancy of its builder may choose to spare. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Then there was a lot of soft shavings, such as brittle toys and gimcracks are often packed in, and among the shavings was—a small neatly-folded white-paper parcel. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Golden eyes focused like lenses over winking jewels and gimcracks. The Door Through Space He was lying where he had tumbled, there on the floor with the silver trays and boxes, the odd tables, the gimcrack chairs all about him. The Prelude to Adventure Hadrian's superficial taste was not offended by the gimcrack quality of the new god; and Antinous was saved from being a merely pinchbeck saint by his own charming personality. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series 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 She's dressed in all her gimcracks and wants your expert opinion. The Danger Mark “Sell ‘m stinking fish and buy gimcracks cheap; sell gimcracks dear to Portugee store in Georgetown, take in sugar—berry good sugar, Demerara sugar—and come back to New York.” We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Some gimcrack belonging to the ship's ornamentation had been freshly gilded and left to dry, protected by an old sail-cloth. The Stolen Singer The station was dark and gloomy, the little gimcrack Turkish kiosk—like a bit of the White City—was filled with Red Cross stoves and beds. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Mr. Sherwell turned and looked at a miserable collection of gimcrack articles piled up against the wall behind him. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton What sort of gimcracks must one have for supper? May Brooke These serve as playthings for the grown-ups, many of whom, especially the Indians and Eskimos, are quite childlike with gimcracks. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell They returned at length to their little gimcrack bungalow—the Match-box, as Puck called it—on foot under a blaze of stars. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories In the basement an operating-room was rigged up, there were bathrooms, disinfecting-rooms, a laundry, and an engine-house, where gimcrack German machinery in fits and starts provided us with electric light and hot water. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia They are building gimcrack palaces, gingerbread cottages, structures which the first full blast of life will level to the ground. The Business of Being a Woman "What!" exclaimed Barbican; "cumbered yourself with such gimcracks?" All Around the Moon The gimcracks he loved to make were all for the public rooms below. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest "Nothing can be so annoying as to see common gimcracks aping me," interposed the princess in the pink shoes. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the gimcracks. The Brownies and Other Tales My dear fellow, how can you think of risking yourself in such a gimcrack contrivance as that? Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. "Such gimcracks are not only good to amuse ourselves with, but are eminently calculated also to win us the friendship of the Selenites." All Around the Moon "Because he's so obviously gimcrack that no one dares do anything to him for fear he should tumble to pieces." The Keeper of the Door And he has got a ’boratory and no end o’ chemicals and stuff, and electric machines, and all sorts o’ gimcracks.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance "Not yet," said she; "you have got to mend the broken gimcracks next." The Brownies and Other Tales They must live in gimcrack suburban villas, and "give parties." Thrift When I came into the coffee-house,344 I had not time to salute the company, before my eye was diverted by ten thousand gimcracks round the room and on the ceiling. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 But spying with a hawk's glance a forestiere among the crowd, he strolls up to him, holding up one of his gimcrack bracelets daintily—and he thinks temptingly, poor fellow!—between his finger and thumb. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 She did not reef as you and I do by sane reefing points, but in a gimcrack fashion with a long lace, so that it took half an hour to take in sail. Hills and the Sea Antonyms: paste, strass, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, pinchbeck, gaud, bauble, foil stone. Putnam's Word Book On that sunny afternoon in April, as we took tea in our tiny and gimcrack drawing-room together, Viola and I felt in the best of spirits. Five Nights The sun was out by this time, and all the seaside village, with its gimcrack hotels and villas flung pell-mell upon the sand, and among the pines, was sparkling under it. Missing Well," said he, "I've carried that 'are gimcrack nigh twenty long year round my old scrag, and when I'm sunk I want you to take it off, Doctor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Puts up one gimcrack after another, as if he were Louis Quatorze—and runs his country into debt meanwhile. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Did Agricola believe in the supernatural potency of these gimcracks? The Grandissimes You've been as faithless a valet as any servant who ever watered wine, lost a gimcrack, or hooked a weed. Ailsa Paige And the Marquis Azzo gave them my house as one gives a child a leaden gimcrack to stamp on. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 To these may be added a dozen or more which seem to be of doubtful formation, such as huckaback, pickapack, gimcrack, ticktack, picknick, barrack, knapsack, hollyhock, shamrock, hammock, hillock, hammock, bullock, roebuck. The Grammar of English Grammars He came to it, at all events; he packed up his books and pictures and gimcracks, and bade farewell to Europe. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Peering through the boughs, I saw a man seated in the smallest and most gimcrack of donkey-carts. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Gifted with a natural feeling for rhetorical contrast, he knew the effect of some simple and impressive sentence, placed like a gem of value in the midst of gimcrack conceits. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti I dessay as I can make shift to get down without the ladder; an' I'll leave all these here gimcracks just as I found 'em. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts. Vanity Fair But of course we know that these people mean it is impossible for them to acquire the trinkets and gimcracks and pleasures that urban extravagance offers. Down with the Cities You won't live in an old manor like this, but among gimcrack little "arty" houses. Mr. Standfast Th' old squire looked up at this, and peered in his way at the screen, and said, 'One pound thirteen for a gimcrack like that! Adam Bede Japan wanted neither the friendship of Russia nor her gimcracks. Rezanov Then he toiled from the morn to the dusk again, Gave his gimcracks to peoples who mocked at him, Trampled on them, deriding, and went their way. The Certain Hour No matter how many trinkets and gimcracks the manufacturing and processing industries make, this cannot be called production; we must in fact regard this as the consumption of resources and energy. Down with the Cities Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room. House of Mirth Almost the whole frontage was of gilt plaster and figured glass, and between that grey seascape and the grey, witch-like trees, its gimcrack quality had something spectral in its melancholy. The Wisdom of Father Brown About antiquities, the old gimcracks that people pay so much for today. The Aspern Papers But Eugenia, turning and still holding her candle aloft, only looked about the little sitting-room at her gimcracks and curtains and cushions. The Europeans No worse than what you see there every week," Gerrit retorted calmly; "corsets and feathers and female gimcracks. Java Head Truly, Mistress Alice, I think you had better throw away this gimcrack. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier He was himself half inclined to suspect the correctness of his fancy in such matters, and often rallies himself on his gimcracks and crotchets in both verse and prose…. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Men were walking up and down the market street, crying their whips, their toy balloons, and a multitude of cheaper gimcracks. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life There were little screens in the room, with shelves specially constructed to hold little gimcracks, which in their turn were specially shaped to stand upon the little shelves. From One Generation to Another "Oh, pshaw!" he replied; "it's a shop all right, or if it isn't exactly a shop that old duffer will be glad to get a little good money for one of his gimcracks." A Columbus of Space The Mansion was full of little gimcracks and sly nods that snuck into your experience on each successive ride. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom It was brought hither in the last century, into old, old England, out of old, old Italy, by some contemporary dandy with a taste for foreign gimcracks. A Passionate Pilgrim "These gimcracks belong to my girls; they left 'em." The Lady of the Aroostook Give me but what another will spend upon one foolish gimcrack that he never looks at again, and I will live for a whole lifetime! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow "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. Five Little Peppers Grown Up What corner cupboards there were filled with Dresden gimcracks, which it was a part of this little woman's business in life to purchase! The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family I supposed it to hold some pretty gimcrack, sent as a pleasant parting token of remembrance. Our Hundred Days in Europe "See here, my little chick," cried he, "everything ready! and a box for your gimcracks into the bargain." Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 But the hoards of wealth that they heap up—they spend it upon fine houses, and silly clothes, and gimcracks, and jewels, and rich food to eat, and wines to drink, and cigars to smoke! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow I hope the men, before they are dispersed, will make a bonfire of their gimcracks, as an army destroy their artillery when forced to raise a siege. The Antiquary — Volume 02 Such fugitive gimcracks as they had brought away with them decorated the little salon. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family It is a tawdry gimcrack edifice, painted bright blue, red, and green, in the worst possible taste. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán Hundreds of ragged and shabby men sat in serried rows, leaning forward with elbows out and heads protruding as they listened to a speech from the gimcrack stage. Hilda Lessways There was no other furniture, and there were no gimcracks about, such as Europeans think necessary in an 'oriental' room. The Primadonna Rushford dropped into one of the two chairs, got out a cigar, lighted it, and sat for some moments looking around at this wilderness of gimcracks. Affairs of State I have paid off Moss every halfpenny for his confounded rings and gimcracks. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family "That's right, my child, I'm glad you do; and I think your idea of pretty things is not merely a taste for highfalutin gimcracks." Patty at Home For looks—just looks—it beats all your fancy gimcracks, even brick; beats everything else hollow, except stone. The Magnetic North When I came into the coffee-house," he wrote, "I had not time to salute the company, before my eye was diverted by ten thousand gimcracks round the room, and on the ceiling. Inns and Taverns of Old London When gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace. December Love If she had liked to buy gimcracks, they would have had that in common, and perhaps he would have been fond of her? The Iron Woman What he saw was a tiny drawing-room, full of flowers and gimcracks, and fuller of four tall angular women, in dark dresses in the rear of the fashion, and sandy hair. The Pillars of the House, V1 Hattie, she wanted to buy all sorts of truck and fix it up with cushions and curtains and Japanese gimcracks like she see a den in a book, and make a showplace of it. Oh, Money! Money! "Nothing can be so annoying as to see common gimcracks aping ME!" interposed the princess in the pink shoes. Bimbi The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and cheap. Aaron's Rod It is most interesting to see a style of architecture and civilisation which bears not a solitary trace of European influence, not even in Manchester cottons or Russian gimcracks. Among the Tibetans How truly "home" the poor little gimcrack shanty had become to him, Mahony grasped only when he once more crossed its threshold and Polly's arms lay round his neck. Australia Felix There were many flowers in the room—some in Cloisonne vases, others in gimcrack vessels such as are bought at country fairs. Simon the Jester He suggested the danger of sailing sixteen hundred miles steered by a gimcrack; and implored Dodd to put into port. Hard Cash A priest, however tall or stout, must be lost in the midst of all these queer gimcracks; in order to be consistent, they ought to dress him up, too, in some odd fantastical suit. Little Travels and Roadside Sketches After the fashion of young ladies on the continent, she wears no jewels or gimcracks: her only ornament is a wreath of vine-leaves in her hair, with little clusters of artificial grapes. The Fitz-Boodle Papers Dress your apostles like priests before the altar; and remember to have a good commodity of crosiers, censers, and other such gimcracks, as you may see in the Catholic chapels, in Sutton Street and elsewhere. The Paris Sketch Book "You do not suppose I am such a flat as to choose that velvet gimcrack there?" Burlesques There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their gimcracks and trumpery. George Cruikshank About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton. The Longest Journey I'd forgotten the pretty stuff an' gimcracks that mean so much to women. To the Last Man When he comes back he writes books—queer, odd books, they say, about some gimcrack he's found in them heathen countries. Pollyanna "And do you expect me to pay for this gimcrack excursion of yours?" The Garden Party and Other Stories "What, that sorry gimcrack? why, 'tis pewter, or tin at best: and this virgin gold, forbye the jewel." The Cloister and the Hearth |
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