trinketry

Crafts booths and food stands lined the meadow, selling the usual array of hippie trinketry: pipes, jewelry, incense, posters.

review of the chet helms memorial stomp Annie 2005

Crafts booths and food stands lined the meadow, selling the usual array of hippie trinketry: pipes, jewelry, incense, posters.

Archive 2005-10-01 Annie 2005

The two partners in good luck divided their spoil amicably and fairly, except that the Moor, who had a little taste for trinketry, made out to get into his heap the most of the pearls and precious stones and other baubles, but then he always gave the water-carrier in lieu magnificent jewels of massy gold, of five times the size, with which the latter was heartily content.

The Alhambra 2002

The two partners in good luck divided their spoil amicably and fairly, except that the Moor, who had a little taste for trinketry, made out to get into his heap the most of the pearls and precious stones and other baubles, but then he always gave the water-carrier in lieu magnificent jewels of massy gold, of five times the size, with which the latter was heartily content.

The Alhambra 2002

For this food, we pay in trinketry-beadwork, badly constructed jewelry, leather goods-which they, in their simple-mindedness, are avid to obtain for their personal adornment.

A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977

"Did you ever read that story of Kipling's where he says, 'Regiments are like women -- they will do anything for trinketry'?" inquired Nancy, calmly.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

Neither does he ever make a High Sheriff of himself, with chains dangling over the front of his waistcoat, or little pistols, seals, or trinketry appearing below his waistband, as much as to say, "_if you only knew what a watch I have inside_!"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

And all the golden trinketry she won at Heaven Gate,

The Old Road to Paradise 1918

Bessie beamed radiantly, with her plump arms and shoulders set off by a white gown, and a good deal of rather incongruous trinketry in the way of birthday presents, every item of which she felt bound to wear, lest the givers should be wounded by her neglect.

The Golden Calf 1875

And here, sweet, I have brought you some trinketry which you shall wear at the feast: a part is for Grace Blackiston, and a part for you.

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872