Gewgaw

For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. ' ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet, if they won, they would be buying both the gewgaw and a print-out of the story. ❋ Alex Rayner (2010)

I had no problems w/the scent/aroma of da Quarter (aside from Bourbon St. which I generally avoid when in town - tho 'Yesteryear's always has some gewgaw I must possess). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Grab the first gewgaw and just do it, quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sadly, the book prizes are restricted to residents of the British isles, but as a compensation a further 3 correct entries from outwith these sceptered isles will receive a nifty wee promotional-type gewgaw currently to be decided upon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That just seems common sense at this point: that ‘brand’ is about all the touchpoints with your customers and partners, not just your logo, and not just the latest RIA gewgaw on your homepage. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Handsome settlements, and a chariot, that tempting gewgaw to the vanity of the middling class of females, were the least that she proposed to herself. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Among super sized fries we are sold a myth: that by acquiring the latest gewgaw, we, too, can become truly self realized! ❋ Unknown (2006)

He would stop at Feldman's Jewelry tomorrow and pick up a small gewgaw for her. ❋ Trish Short Lewis (2006)

And you're taking tax dollars out of your community - and tax dollars, as you know, represent much more than a new book or CD or gewgaw. ❋ NewPages (2006)

Imagine someone being asked in a friend's living room what he thinks of some gewgaw his host has, and appalling her by launching into an extended screed about how collecting those gewgaws damages the ecosystem or encourages the further exploitation of a subjugated culture? ❋ Gregory Feeley (2005)

There is no gewgaw or parade about him, as in some of your dandified young Agas. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Lynde was secretly the least bit disgruntled, for if he had won he had intended to take a portion of the winnings and put it in a necklace or some other gewgaw for Aileen. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Women love their husbands, their children, their lapdogs, and the newest gewgaw they have purchased. ❋ Balogh, Mary (2004)

Imagine, the Reds give away a two-dollar gewgaw and four thousand more people will fight the traffic and the parking and the heat and the humidity. ❋ VINCE STATEN (2003)

You know that [locket] she said was a priceless [heirloom] from her grandmmother? It's nothing but a dollar gewgaw from [Bargain Basement]! ❋ Mystikan (2004)