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trinket
1. trinket triviality in the hold of an aeroplane
2. They were trinket crafters and shirt printers and keg tappers that sold to local yokels
3. ‘Put these rucksacks on, they’re a little trinket I picked up in the Hollywood
4. There had to be a trinket lying around somewhere which could cause her damage
5. To the others who carried it--my kinfolk--the small, argentate trinket was a token
6. “They knew their safety depended on their never taking anything of value, but their were a few who couldn’t resist a pretty trinket, mostly girls
7. Yazadril was still marveling at his new trinket, given to him by Somonik a moment before
8. The halfling pulled the sparkling trinket from his travel pack and briefly displayed its shiny composition to his friends
9. The trinket was not the only thing missing
10. They cracked the knuckles of their wart-infested fingers and told one another that they were not going to share such a colorful trinket as this, no, not after waiting as long as they had, through the grinding of a century
11. The trinket Max had given to Carla; the same one Philippe was so desperate to take
12. They’d stolen his wealth, his thunder, his pride, yet showed no satisfaction, like his priceless gem was just another trinket to pawn
13. Along with the two-dozen roses that you'll be buying her then you should also pick out a small stuffed animal or other trinket to go along with it
14. I put it around my neck, and held the end of it where a heart-shaped trinket hung
15. on the back of the trinket
16. We are beguiled by the shining trinket 164
17. How kind of you to ask me what I would like for Christmas, and how funny of you to ask if you might not give me a trinket
18. Greg hurled himself across the room and snatched the trinket from Smitty’s grasp
19. It was the trinket that allowed her to walk in the sun and the magic was old
20. Be honest, is it a necessity or a luxury? Will it help your business life, home life or perhaps it will just be a status symbol, a trinket
21. your spouse with something you knew they wanted? Remember the thoughtful trinket you got?
22. ' Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods, and he did not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty-rouble trinket in order to give it to the police
23. Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of his own
24. of that trinket of mine, which bears so great an imaginary value; and his
25. Heyward instantly knew it for a trinket that Alice was fond of wearing, and which he recollected, with the tenacious memory of a lover, to have seen, on the fatal morning of the massacre, dangling from the fair neck of his mistress
26. Gone were the enormous antique cabinets, the trinket boxes on highly polished mahogany tables, the heavy drapes
27. ' Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods, and he did not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty‐rouble trinket in order to give it to the police
28. But she had never worn the trinket
29. not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty-rouble trinket in order to give it to the police
30. And yet this same man, who sees all the execrableness of these acts, who is himself not urged by any one, will himself voluntarily, and frequently without the monetary advantage of a salary, for the sake of childish vanity, for the sake of a porcelain trinket, a ribbon, a piece of lace, which he is permitted to put on, go into military service, become an examining magistrate, a justice of the peace, a minister, a rural officer, a bishop, a sexton, that is, he will take an office in which he is obliged to do things the disgrace and execrableness of which he cannot help but know
31. Thus a mentally sound old man, for no other reason than that some trinket or fool's dress is put over him, some keys on his buttocks, or a blue ribbon, which is proper only for a dressed-up little girl, and that he is on that occasion impressed with the idea that he is a general, a chamberlain, a Cavalier of St
32. Andrews, or some such silliness, suddenly becomes self-confident, proud, and even happy; or, on the contrary, because he loses or does not receive a desired trinket or name, becomes so sad and unhappy that he even grows sick
33. And at the same time the very man who acknowledges all the ignominy of such deeds, when the case is presented to him, will often, of his own accord, and for no advantage of a salary, but moved by childish vanity, the desire to possess a trinket of enamel, a decoration, a stripe, voluntarily enter the military service, or become an examining magistrate, a justice of the peace, a minister of state, an uriadnik, a bishop, accepting an office whose duties will oblige him to do things, the shame and ignominy of which he cannot help realizing
34. The young man listened, offered suggestions here and there, and then, with a sudden backward thought, he remembered a trinket in his possession—a little pearl bracelet, a trifle, but beyond anything appropriate to the costume in hand
35. Have you never noticed that it is often the most whimsically inconsequent, the most utterly ordinary, the most intrinsically prosaic of inanimate things that, with a sudden and overwhelming rush, will call into being memories the tenderest, the deepest, the saddest? It may be a worthless little book, a withered flower ghastly in its brown grave clothes, a cheap, tawdry trinket; it may be something as intangible as a few bars of a hackneyed song ground out on a wheezy, asthmatic hand organ