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When the lily fair, untilled, outshines the gaudy show and tinselry which
contriving man can form, why need we decorate and idolize this mass of clay. Ay,
if the body were all, the curse, though heavy, would be lightly borne, but the mind,
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The Ladies' Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to ...
She was distinguished from her young companions by a peculiar head-dress,
and a trail of tinselry about eight inches wide and one yard long fastened to the
band of her head-dress and flowing down her back She saluted each guest who
...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
... at every part of ^hHv and superficial the surface. Flmcer, A Hist, of the Trade In
Tin, p. 170. » 8^7, ana suPeTMclsl tin-pulp (tin'pulp), n. A dyeing material, con-
Jml\Dlc,t:. , , . r/ . ,„ , , ,,. sisting of the precipitate obtained from a solu- tinselry (tin ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
Why, mad for the gauds, And transitory tinselry of earth, When there's a solemn
work for thee to do, And that work not begun? Will it be less, That thou—the day
of grace push'd further off— Trifie awhile with judgment, death, and hell, Choose
...
William Thompson BACON, 1839
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The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine
Instead of this, We find in them nothing but violent metaphors, mingled with
bombast and buffoonery, insulting alike to common sense and common decency.
It is true, their “ gaudy tinselry" pleases the “ vulgar few," but the sensible and
thinking ...
Every thing, in this respect, is in the old stereotyped track of j their ancestors,
burning incensed sticks j morning and evening, and the ordinary offering of
tinselry, tea, etc. The resi- j dencc of each kung-se is a house of gods and
chamber of ...
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Oxberry's Theatrical Inquisitor: Or Monthly Mirror of the Drama
... deposing them from “ their high estate” elected an unknown Wight, one MEI-0
DRAMA to succeed them. The public always changeable' , Qw in crowds to his
standard-the doors of the theatres were be5§¢t-the splendid tinselry that glitter-
ed ...
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Blackwood's Edinburge Magazine
... i—that often the “ iron is entering the very soul" of those who present to the
world's eye an exterior of g'laring iety and recklessness;— at gil ed ilt must, one
day, be stri pet! of to tinselry, and flung lato tie haze and gloom of outer darkness.
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Our Northern Domain: Alaska, Picturesque, Historic and ...
... acknowledge that the picture as painted made Alaska a good country for fish. ' '
He declared that he was almost ready to embrace " the creations of this splendid
fancy," until, on sober second thought, stripping it of the " trimming and tinselry ...
Nathan Haskell Dole, 1910
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Methodist Magazine and Review
Oil and balm, to be sure, after the wounding: but first let the flying shaft go
crushing through the tinselry and false defences. If we would build up character,
have a robust and prolific religion, and achieve the ends for which Christ died,
the best ...
