Jimcrack

‘Why, what conceivable use is there in jimcrack jewellery?’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Beyond the tracks untidy landing places are scattered along the water front, with here and there a tall, awkward, stern-wheel river steamer tied up, looking rather like an old-fashioned New Jersey seacoast hotel, covered with porches and jimcrack carving, painted white, embellished with a cupola and a pair of tall, thin smokestacks, and set adrift in its old age to masquerade in maritime burlesque. ❋ Julian Street (1913)

Within her cosy little house beneath the jimcrack-tree ❋ Various (1897)

'Why, what conceivable use is there in jimcrack jewellery?' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

'John would spend pounds a year upon the jimcrack old thing, if he might, in having it claned, when at the same time you may doctor it yourself as well. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

I paid any ten shillens for a jimcrack wine-barrel; a saint is sinner enough not to be cheated. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

It gratified her to think that she was doing them a substantial kindness; but for her, they would have dragged through a wretched summer in their unwholesome, jimcrack house, without a breath of pure air, without a sight of the free heaven. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

“I think I should have used the eyes that Providence gave me to use afore I paid any ten shillens for a jimcrack wine-barrel; ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘Yes, sure,’ replied Mrs. Smith; and continued after the manner of certain matrons, to whose tongues the harmony of a subject with a casual mood is a greater recommendation than its pertinence to the occasion, ‘John would spend pounds a year upon the jimcrack old thing, if he might, in having it claned, when at the same time you may doctor it yourself as well. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then the hangman by his order clapped a fig into the mule's jimcrack, in the presence of the enslaved cits that were brought into the middle of the great market-place, and proclaimed in the emperor's name, with trumpets, that whosoever of them would save his own life should publicly pull the fig out with his teeth, and after that put it in again in the very individual cranny whence he had draw'd it without using his hands, and that whoever refused to do this should presently swing for it and die in his shoes. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)