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- noun Plural form of
bawble .
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Examples
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Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to hang out at someone's house and put some fancy bawbles up?
Super Sex Me Ms Robinson 2008
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Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.
Walden 2004
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Hill, and it was not taken down till the villa had been despoiled of all the curious and costly toys and bawbles with which it was packed and crammed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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"Indeed, the Signorina cares not for such bawbles," said Luigi, sadly, covering her with his gaze.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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Israel predominates here, -- Israel, with its traditional stock in trade of cheap clothing, and bawbles that are made to wear, but not to wear long.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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In the microcosm of his own small round, every one has the power to vivify old incident, every one raises bawbles of the desk and drawer, not only into life, but into life they never had.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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Indeed, it is the magical lights of the horizon, and the blue sky for the background, which save all our works of art, which were otherwise bawbles.
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Besides wasting a wealth of energy on ostentatious vanities, these bawbles of pedantry never undertake to develop in their pupils integrity
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Who can wonder that in this haste for sun-gilded bawbles and winged thistle-down, men should tumble into ruin?
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Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.
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