10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEWGAWED»
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should be glad to exhibit to the host of American parvenus their own broad,
glittering cards, bearing upon them names reeking with plebeian- ism,
gewgawed with some paltry title, the synonyme and passport of insignificance, in
contrast with ...
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The Millennial Harbinger
William Kimbrough Pendleton Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos. We
shall leave our gewgawed devotees to reconcile liu niVwlion in worship With
vanity of dress. That is a problem which we confess we have neither the right n ir
the c ...
Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, 1869
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
... the hanging; and the later episode of the grown girl deserting the Madonna of
an old master, at which she had been used to pray, for “ A new Madonna gaily
decked, Tinselled and gewgawed, a slight German toy,” both of these are as
lovely, ...
Go, learn his spirit, if ye dare adventure, From Judah's lion, in his sultry walk, And
when he spares your gewgawed cowardice, All princely as ye are ; what recks
that monarch Of words ye call him, while his inbred nature Is the high charter of ...
Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1845
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America, and the Americans
describable degree of interest ; and, in my eyes, it was worth all the bespangled
and gewgawed thrones in Christendom, the venerable worm-eaten Gothic chair
of our own Westminster Abbey into the bargain. The banner which waved over ...
James Boardman, Price Collier, 2007
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Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction: An Anthology
She was dressed in black, which seemed to take her yet further from the white-
ciad. gewgawed women about her; and the little hands were white, and the
diamond ring glittered. Where had she got that ring? He bent forward a little and
tried to ...
In the Canterbury Tales the machinery is back in all its creaking, gewgawed
splendor, bright-framed jewel-studded mirrors flashing, elves and painted ladies
peeking out from significant painted forests, even the lifelike prattling Pilgrims ...
should be glad to exhibit to the host of American parvenus their own broad,
glittering cards, bearing upon them names reeking with plebeian- ism,
gewgawed with some paltry title, the synonyme and passport of insignificance, in
contrast with ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1837
... round the sorrowing heart can bring Fond moments which had fled— And
make the love that welled of yore Spring up within our hearts once more. Janmarr
I*t, im. Like laughing boys that seek the gewgawed fly, And, as REMEMBRANCE.
William Evans Burton, 1839
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Published and Perished
For, to put briefly a part of his accomplishment, he revolutionized his country's
best taste in "creative literature"; he destroyed the tawdry gewgawed idols and
lifted up in their place honest standards not fringed with tinsel. It was slow work; ...
Steven Gilbar, Dean Stewart, 2002
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GEWGAWED»
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The Twilight Zone
The vampire clan in Twilight even has elevated taste in architecture—no gewgawed McMansion for them! Twilight is the Brideshead Revisited of the fanged and ... «Vanity Fair, Nov 08»
