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tinsel
1. two trolleys strong, laden to the gunwales with Christmas crackers, wreaths of tinsel
2. with expectation still wrapped in tinsel and bright paper
3. She felt the fear that comes with expectation still wrapped in tinsel and bright paper
4. over-sized Christmas tree ornaments and garlands of gold and silver tinsel
5. painted in the glory of holly and mistletoe and tinsel, faded out, and
6. The bar was festooned with tinsel and shining silver and gold stars
7. the tinsel, baubles and bangles of the Potters' San Francisco penthouse
8. been so wrapped up in his own glittering, tinsel success, he's lost perspective on the
9. I've never understood adult desire for tinsel; to me it was a total waste of money
10. He dominated the scene, turning to tinsel the pomp of the conquerors by the sheer vitality of his elemental personality, and the kings in their pride and splendor were aware of it each in his secret heart, and were not at ease
11. remembered when you were going on about your romances in tinsel
12. The other one is a beautiful American blonde in a black tinsel dress
13. For a moment, Millie saw through her pain that it was a beautiful, starry night, that sparkled like tinsel
14. that shred of tinsel you were wearing this time round
15. The actress had to admit to herself that she liked them, they were hard not to like, but Byron? On first meeting him she was taken by his shyness, he was not the jumped up egomaniac that she had conditioned herself to expect from everybody else in this town of tinsel
16. The studio was decorated with tinsel and a mirror ball hung from the middle of the ceiling
17. girl over from the toes of her slippers to the tip of her tinsel crown—and then, with curling lip, she took in the man she
18. It was Betty, and her tinsel
19. As before, the brilliant color mechanism of its skin — scales, maybe? — was all active, so that it glittered like green tinsel
20. After they had had some supper, although it was after eleven o'clock, Owen fixed the tree in a large flower-pot that had served a similar purpose before, and Nora brought out from the place where it had been stored away since last Christmas a cardboard box containing a lot of glittering tinsel ornaments - globes of silvered or gilded or painted glass, birds, butterflies and stars
21. Styrofoam snowmen and waterlogged sofas were draped in tinsel
22. The streets downtown were white and lightly trafficked, forsaken under Christmas tinsel keening with the wind
23. Life would be no better than candle-light tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy
24. It took him three months to get off his ass, go down to a five-and-dime, and buy the little bit of tinsel he gave her while on his third beer
25. Holiday decorations are out in force here—shiny bright lights are coiled around the streetlamps, and most of the storefronts have holly or tinsel
26. The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Thenardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, and magnificent objects of tin
27. The crickets keep their truce, the stars are so low you can almost brush the tinsel
28. It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy
29. The robots, clothed in hair of ape and white of rabbit, arose: Tweedledum following Tweedledee, Mock-Turtle, Dormouse, drowned bodies from the sea compounded of salt and whiteweed, swaying; hanging blue-throated men with turned-up, clam-flesh eyes, and creatures of ice and burning tinsel, loam-dwarfs and pepper-elves, Tik-tok, Ruggedo, St
30. I looked around me: what marvel was that? Where was I? Above me were some white chambers, and white posts, and on everything glistened white tinsel
31. I see no reason why we should not maintain sturdy beggars in rags as well as beggars of another description in tinsel