These picturesque rooms often contained "good finds" of the old Spanish furniture, and brass; but as a rule the dealers had long since bought up all the old things, replacing them by "brummagem," -- modern articles shining with cheap varnish. ❋ George Wharton Edwards (1904)
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies, wrote Twain, putting it a bit more elegantly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The brummagem politician ... oh, wait ... that would be redundant, wouldn't it? ❋ Unknown (2008)
They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was one of the type known as “tourist” cars, a sort of brummagem ❋ Unknown (2003)
Twenty-seventh Street toward the river, near which he could just see a single patch of vivid green trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive. ❋ Unknown (2003)
You find yourself scrutinizing famous romances for the sudden slip that bares the brummagem nature of it all. ❋ Jr., William F. Buckley (1985)
All of our cities are full of brummagem aristocrats -- aristocrats, at all events, in the view of their neighbours -- whose grandfathers, or even fathers, were day labourers; and working for them, supported by them, heavily patronized by them, are clerks whose grandfathers were lords of the soil. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
To-day one must put him where he has begun to put himself - not among the literary artists of English, but among the brummagem prophets of England. ❋ Unknown (1919)
The things of capital importance are habitually discussed, not by men soberly trying to get at the truth about them, but by brummagem Great Thinkers trying only to get kudos of them. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Wright Mabies, and other such brummagem dons -- were utterly unaware of him. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
No novelist could have smaller likeness to the brummagem emotion-squeezers of the Kipling type, with their playhouse fustian and their naïve ethical cocksureness. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Anthony lay upon the lounge looking up One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street toward the river, near which he could just see a single patch of vivid green trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive. ❋ Unknown (1918)
It was one of the type known as "tourist" cars, a sort of brummagem Pullman, with a bare floor, and straw seats that needed cleaning. ❋ Unknown (1918)
On the contrary, it has distinctly diminished their efficiency by inculcating in the literate proletariat, who constitute the cream of their class, a strong distaste for their hereditary mode of living and their hereditary callings, and an equally strong taste for shoddy superfluities and brummagem fineries, and for occupations of a more or less parasitic character. ❋ Lothrop Stoddard (1916)
I had spent a day in exploring Colombo -- visiting Arabi Pasha, inspecting Hindu temples, watching the jugglers and snake-charmers, evading guides and the sellers of brummagem jewellery, and idling in the Cinnamon Gardens. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Colombo -- visiting Arabi Pasha, inspecting Hindu temples, watching the jugglers and snake-charmers, evading guides and the sellers of brummagem jewellery, and idling in the Cinnamon Gardens. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Nevertheless, she is but a brummagem kind of countess, after all, being the daughter of Braham, the famous singer, and married first to an illegitimate son of an Earl Waldegrave -- not to the legitimate son and possessor of the title (who was her first love) -- and after the death of these two to the present old Mr. Harcourt. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
