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Example sentences for "baubles"

Lexicographically close words:
battue; battues; batty; batzen; bauble; baud; baudy; bauld; bauldest; bauldly
  1. With gold and jewels all is covered, And with a strange tire we are won, (Whilst she's the least part of herself) And with such baubles quite undone.

  2. The last of the consecrated baubles to be lifted was the crown.

  3. We have so many foolish ways to lay out money, in toys and fools' baubles for our children, that we can spare none, or very little, for the relief of the poor.

  4. Next Friday, being the 18th May, he sailed along the coast to the westwards, so near the shore that many canoes continually followed the ships, bartering such things as they possessed for any baubles given them by the Spaniards.

  5. The pilot of that ship went over into the canoe, and gave the Indians some baubles with which they were much pleased, and said if they were on shore they would have brought him bread from their houses.

  6. They've two more baubles in the offing, and sharp at one-thirty we start on fried eggs and beer.

  7. And I walked," I said, "after dark from the Calle de Miracruz to this hotel with the baubles under my arm.

  8. They even lent the people their assistance at the salt-lakes to load their waggons in exchange for beads and baubles from Buenos Ayres.

  9. Helps, "if they had possessed the slightest gift of prophecy, they would have thrown these baubles into the deepest sea.

  10. Then the shining baubles were adjusted, apparently without exciting suspicion, amid the elation of the savage at his high seat upon the wondrous beast.

  11. This it bestows even on me; and a few childish baubles are all else that it reserves for those who worship it with all their soul, and strength, and mind.

  12. The hand which is soon to be cold, resigns without a struggle the baubles of the world.

  13. I tell you, men, the benefits that come to men who see no further than themselves are baubles in the morning light; 5 They are unreal; they pass away.

  14. Ambition covered up his face and fled away, and Jesus said, 16 The wealth, the honor, and the fame of earth are but the baubles of an hour.

  15. When this short span of earthly life has all been measured out, man's bursting baubles will be buried with his bones.

  16. And he had drawn from his mother a love of baubles which kept his mind from scheming.

  17. She's sorry that she ever tried to console herself with baubles it's what you've suspected all along.

  18. And the jewellers can hardly turn out sufficient baubles to adorn her shrine!

  19. Then the Church needs no other jewels" returned Manuel quietly, with a little gesture of his hand, "These glittering baubles you show, are out of place.

  20. Illustration: The Devil's Auction Here many church members, and others, pay their all for a few baubles of worldly pleasure.

  21. Then a door was opened in the rear, and lo, I beheld a series of rooms filled with baubles of every conceivable kind, enough to satisfy all who came for such lightsome things.

  22. These dark-skinned tenants of the woods brought furs of wild animals with them, which they exchanged with the white men for knives, and beads, and baubles and trinkets of brass and tin.

  23. It is not, then, dangling about after a wife; it is not the loading her with baubles and trinkets; it is not the jaunting of her about from show to show, and from what is called pleasure to pleasure.

  24. If my toys were demolished, new baubles were ready at my call.

  25. The glittering baubles which dazzled me withdrawn for a time, I saw, not without alarm, the great realities which she presented to my mind.

  26. Why fill, with the veriest baubles of this unsubstantial scene, hearts already too much inclined to exclude their rightful possessor?

  27. At last, though he would not intrust me with his materials, he permitted me to work with my own; promising that, if my baubles pleased him, he would purchase them.

  28. Ah, how easy it is to despise baubles while musing by fire-light in a solitary chamber!

  29. Their baubles were of foreign make; likewise their few hoes, likewise their guns.

  30. We bow before the Emperor, we salute the Statue of God, but we make out our checks to buy baubles for women, and it is that which keeps the wheels of progress turning.

  31. Would she barter herself for baubles then?

  32. Like an Indian princess, who owned an island of pearls, but did not know their value, she would give them to the first foreigner, coming down in ships, for the baubles of his forecastle.

  33. He sent for Alwyn to his house in Warwick-lane, and after complimenting him on his advance in life and repute, since Nicholas had waited on him with baubles for his embassy to France, he offered him the special rank of goldsmith to the king.

  34. Think not, dearest Henry, that for myself I care for all the glittering baubles around me, so that I still retain your love.

  35. Think you that I cared so much for the splendor with which you have surrounded me or the glittering baubles with which you have decked me, as to have enjoyed the one or worn the other, had I known all I now do.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baubles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.