Trinkets

Examples

• It contained papers, love-letters many years old--all sorts of small trinkets and woman's memoranda. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She--she's sent me back some things I gave her--some damned trinkets. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Having replaced these trinkets, the Jew took out another: so small that it lay in the palm of his hand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She bethought herself of the trinkets which had been left on the ground and felt certain that the woman had fled. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She could not even go out and sell her trinkets to free him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were her own trinkets and trousseau, in addition to those which her husband had left behind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The natives of South America soon discovered that the white man was willing to pay them beads and other trinkets for chunks of this rubber, so they became active in gathering it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Taking toys and trinkets in general, Miss Rachel was nothing like so mad after them as most young girls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Tonight the luck had been persistently bad, and the little gold purse which hung among her trinkets was almost empty when she returned to her room. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The ignorance of the times affords but few of the trinkets in which that finery consists. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Heavily enough to oblige me to sell some trinkets. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Just show 'em how many watches, feathers, and trinkets, one's weight in gold would buy, and that alters the case, _I_ reckon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Nay, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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