gew-gaw

The build-up to the fireworks at 10:00 p.m. includes busker acts and the sales of vast quantities of sausages and ice-cream, not to mention every Canadian-flag-stamped knick-knack and gew-gaw you can imagine.

War Memorial idiocy 2006

The build-up to the fireworks at 10:00 p.m. includes busker acts and the sales of vast quantities of sausages and ice-cream, not to mention every Canadian-flag-stamped knick-knack and gew-gaw you can imagine.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

The packet that Master Jeffreys handed to Dorothy was too large and too heavy for a mere missive; and the maid, recalling some jocular promises of Raleigh's, at once suspected that some London gew-gaw lay snug within, and tore off the wrappings with eager fingers.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

The chief's daughter, in particular, was took with the beauties of that gew-gaw, and she made signs to us that she wanted one just like it.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The little rustic girl of Alabama looked very winsome and blossomy in the pretty gew-gaw, and I asked her impulsively if she liked it.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

I was never a grasping trader, but I provided myself before setting out with every worthless gew-gaw and flashy trifle that could tempt the native to betray Indian secrets.

Lords of the North 1903

Barbara heard the word and saw the crowd race away like scattered sheep, saw the Prince forcibly hustled away by his attendants; also she saw her son lying prone in an agony of overmastering terror, his spasm of daring shattered by the child's unexpected resistance, still clutching frantically, as though for safety, at that white-satin gew-gaw, unable to crawl even from its deadly neighbourhood, able only to scream and scream and scream.

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

Apart from all associations and historical interest, this imposing specimen of our Colonial domestic architecture, so simple and reposeful an edifice amidst a world of flat buildings, and of gew-gaw houses built for sale on the instalment plan to the ubiquitous Mr. and

Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

At dinner she had tales of uxorious men, of men who married mistresses, of the fearful incubus the vulgar family of a woman of the inferior classes ever must be; and her animadversions were strong in the matter of gew-gaw modern furniture.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

At dinner she had tales of uxorious men, of men who married mistresses, of the fearful incubus the vulgar family of a woman of the inferior classes ever must be; and her animadversions were strong in the matter of gew-gaw modern furniture.

Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868