jimcracks

"He gave me two sows, each with a litter of pigs, for a wedding present and said they'd be a heap more to me than any kind of jimcracks he could er bought for half the money they'd bring.

Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

The boys are very bitter against the sutler, realizing, for the first time, that "sutler's chips" cost money, and that they have wasted on jimcracks too much of their hard earnings.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

You can lay in a stock of jimcracks like the other girls have.

Tabitha's Vacation Ruth Alberta Brown

A grown man with forty thousand pounds of solid money settin 'on the side of a gutter eatin' jimcracks with a passel of dirty little boys!

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

An ideal of earthly comfort, so common that every reader must have seen it, is to get a house so big that it is burdensome to maintain, and fill it up so full of jimcracks that it is a constant occupation to keep it in order.

The Tyranny of Things 1914

One of them afterwards came to Little Rock, took down many orders from various persons for gew-gaws and jimcracks, and with a pass from General Smith, returned north through our lines.

Military reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A., 1913

A grown man with forty thousand pounds of solid money settin 'on the side of a gutter eatin' jimcracks with a passel of dirty little boys!

From Place to Place 1910

They earn their day's wage, and if anything remains above the expense of living, it is invested in gay clothing or jimcracks.

Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

The first day it's thar, a jeweller sharp come in for his daily drinks -- he runs the jewelry store of that meetropolis an 'knows about diamonds an' sim'lar jimcracks same as Peets does about drugs -- an 'he considers this talisman, scrootinisin' it a heap clost.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885