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  • The diet must be full and nourishing, but all pastries and "knicknacks" should be avoided.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • And most importantly, could an entire industry of knicknacks, trinkets and gizmos be built upon the pursuit of these creatures?

    Wanna be a Published Outdoor Writer? Tim Romano 2008

  • Inside, the Big Room was decorated with cast-off knicknacks salvaged from garbage cans around town: old album covers, bamboo beads, an empty picture frame, a bicycle wheel.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • And their house was so tidy and full of geegaws and knicknacks that i was scared of knocking something over.

    Archive 2009-12-01 faerian 2009

  • The various knicknacks all seem to be getting in the way watch the actors try to avoid knocking them over.

    Arts 2009

  • And their house was so tidy and full of geegaws and knicknacks that i was scared of knocking something over.

    OLD friends faerian 2009

  • I grew up with pictures of Elizabeth on several walls of our house in Detroit, and on numerous knicknacks... and on the funny money occasionally passing about.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both? 2009

  • Beauty isn't just filigree, decoration, pictures and curtains and knicknacks we put around our home.

    It's All About What I Have to Pick Up Off the Floor. regina doman 2007

  • Beauty isn't just filigree, decoration, pictures and curtains and knicknacks we put around our home.

    Archive 2007-01-01 regina doman 2007

  • It's more than a shell, it has knicknacks, personal touches strewn about the place.

    NPIRLer Lash Xevious' "BEST of Second Life" list Bettina Tizzy 2008

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