They are fairly bristling with quite serviceable looking weapons, besides many of the highly ornamented, but less dangerous, "gewgaws of war" dear to the heart of the brave but conservative warriors of Islam.
As the groups of women walk about, their toe-rings and ankle-ornaments jingle against the marble, and their particolored raiment and barbarous gewgaws look curiously out of place here.
When, therefore, one finds mountaineer nomads, it seems superfluous almost to describe them as being arrayed chiefly in gewgaws and bright-colored clothes.
Let them sing songs, draw pictures, and make trinkets and gewgaws during the time they are not working in the fields.
And the gewgaws for the rory-tory madams o' Spain--where be the gewgaws?
Have I not misrepresented my gewgaws as the atheist misrepresents the truth?
In the corner opposite the stove is a little altar with the conventional icons and gewgaws and a number of prayer books lying pell-mell around.
And she packed the huge toy under her arm, along with the iridescent ball and the gewgaws of her plunder, and out into the cab, where an attendant tucked a bottle of the red warming wine between them.
Because, as methinks, such tawdrygewgaws be unworthy a Christian profession.
I don't feel as if I should ever care again for the gewgaws and the merrymakings that I used to think all the world of.
He had piled rich gifts upon Anne, but her greed for costly gewgaws was insatiable; and when the preparations for her visit to France were afoot she coveted the Queen's jewels.
Gravelines was a poor place, but Charles had other ways of influencing people than by piling up gewgaws before them.
A single piercing thought of the vast and shadowy future, which is so near, tears off on the instant all the gewgaws of pride, strips away the vanity that doubles your bigness, and forces you down to the bare nakedness of what you truly are!
Being a thorough-going Protectionist, he has no fancy for the gewgaws of foreign importation, and makes it a point to appear always in the village church, and on all great occasions, in a sober suit of homespun.
But I have not the time to pause Upon these gewgaws of the heart.
All Indians are passionately fond of beads, trinkets and gewgaws of every kind.
The ornamentation that does not cover strength is the gewgaws of babble.
Ignorance engaged in the work of making Degrees, and trifles and gewgaws and pretended mysteries, absurd or hideous, usurped the place of Masonic Truth.
Presently a painted warrior, with a red feather waving from his head and his body bedizened with gewgawsrecently purchased from a trader, came down the path.
The author saw women, who were acting as nurses to the children of European residents, wearing all these gewgaws as described, the gross weight of which must have been considerable.
This passion for covering their persons with gewgaws is as old with these people as the ancient city of Anuradhapura, where the same custom prevailed among the Singhalese two thousand years ago.
And show of Glory's gewgaws in the van And the Sun's rays with flames more dazzling filled.
When you arrived from the convent, I took you for an average young girl, ignorant and not particularly intelligent, easily to be bought off with gewgaws and ornaments, and with little turn for reflection.
The thoughts and the dreams with which I bought the gewgaws profane them in your eyes while I am alive.
I have always wondered at the importance which women attribute to all the gewgaws and trifles which are called dress!
I began to discover that what I called gewgaws formed a very important item in the keeping of a woman.
I then displayed to his view some gewgaws and trinkets, at which he appeared perfectly delighted, and, with many signs and gestures, invited me on shore.
How the soul of womanhood is dwarfed and shriveled by such trifles, kept away from the great fields of active thought and love by the gewgaws she hangs on her bonnet!
And unless you want her to be that horror of horrors, a strong-minded woman, do you think you can strip her for three months of all her gewgaws and still have her filled with the proper desire to be pleasing in your eyes?
It is not improbable that the few contemporary readers of his works, especially in euphuistic England, admired the gewgaws he so plentifully scattered and rendered so brilliant by the coruscations of his wit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gewgaws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
