He would tell you frankly that nothing would induce him to live in a house within a stone's-throw of Leicester Square, although it is a far better built and more comfortable house than the gimcrack villa which he rents at Surbiton.
It is a kind of holiest of holies, too beautiful for normal occupation, full of gimcrack chairs that cannot be sat upon, and decorative futilities which give it the aspect of a miscellaneous stall at a 'rummage sale.
Tuscany induced the old Florentine families to withdraw their capital from trade, sink it in land, create entails in perpetuity on eldest sons, and array themselves with gimcrack titles which he liberally supplied.
What it might have been, but for those gimcrack ecstasies before the Host in boyhood, cannot now be fancied.
If that's all his religion meant to him--that ridiculous piece ofgimcrack gothic, no wonder it wouldn't hold together.
The station was dark and gloomy, the little gimcrack Turkish kiosk--like a bit of the White City--was filled with Red Cross stoves and beds.
Strange as it may sound to the ears of some, gimcrack and gingerbread are the elements of our new Democratic theory.
When I go, sir, my estate is to be cut up as our Democratic republican laws ordain; and my gimcrack and gingerbread can be plowed in as easily as the dockweed.
I glory, sir, in saying New-Light Democracy riots in gimcrack and gingerbread.
Hadrian's superficial taste was not offended by the gimcrack quality of the new god; and Antinous was saved from being a merely pinchbeck saint by his own charming personality.
If a gimcrack affair be wanted, for the purposes of ornament, or expense, any sum of money may be squandered upon it which the fancy of its builder may choose to spare.
You won't live in an old manor like this, but among gimcrack little "arty" houses.
He hasn’t bought pictures wholesale, or built a gimcrackmansion in Park Lane.
I want a home—our home—not a gimcrack shop or a ready-made bandbox as if I were a new hat—a real home.
There were many flowers in the room--some in Cloisonne vases, others in gimcrack vessels such as are bought at country fairs.
There is no mutton so good as Brighton mutton; no flys so pleasant as Brighton flys; nor any cliff so pleasant to ride on; no shops so beautiful to look at as the Brighton gimcrack shops, and the fruit shops, and the market.
