Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mushroom development had brought cheap-jack construction. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The sooner these cheap-jack gerrymanders of British policy realise that the ❋ Unknown (2004)
His ponderous declaration: “I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy,” was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his ❋ Unknown (2003)
But that old clown Circumstance was piping in the market-place, shewing his cheap-jack wares to catch the fancies of the maidens, and my sweetheart, caught in the excitement of the moment, presently paid down for one of his flashy baubles no less a price than her own young heart. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)
His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)
His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his Comedie Humaine. ❋ Lawton, Frederick (1910)
The nightmare of modern cheap-jack life was all explained; unjustified, of course, as he had always dimly felt, symptom of deep disorder; all due, this feverish, external business, to an odd misunderstanding with the Earth. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
Tolstoi had hitherto been favourably inclined towards Shaw, owing to his friend and biographer Mr. Aylmer Maude; but this cheap-jack sacrilege was too much for the great old man, who seemed to know God with almost Matthew Arnold's plainness as near ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
Then that jolly old Sir Walter Cholmondeliegh got introduced to us, and this fellow, with his cheap-jack wit, began to score off the old man in the way he does now. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Anyhow, he did not talk like a cheap-jack at a stall; but rather like a teacher in an infant school. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Bernard Shaw is a great cheap-jack, with plenty of patter and I dare say plenty of nonsense, but with this also (which is not wholly unimportant), with goods to sell. ❋ Unknown (1905)
But at least the cheap-jack does advertise his wares, whereas the don or dear-jack advertises nothing except himself. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The narrow streets which had been thronged with people were now almost deserted; the cheap-jack from London, with the remnant of breath left him after his evening's exertions, was making feeble attempts to blow out his naphtha lamp, and the last shops open were rapidly closing for the night. ❋ Unknown (1903)
"I suppose," he had conceded grudgingly, "we must have a brat to carry swords and cloaks for us, or we'll be taken for some o 'your cheap-jack hucksters parading latest fashions," and he bade our host of the Star and ❋ Unknown (1903)
I went across the Parade, which every morning is full of cheap-jack auctioneers selling all things under the sun to Kaffirs, Malays, coolies, towards Rondebosch and Wynberg. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)
Midland, for Constance, was not a trading concern, but something between a cheap-jack and a circus. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
