So he longed after them and going out to the marketstreets of the city, bought trinkets and costly stuffs and fruit-confections, such as they had never seen or known.
One of the paradoxes of the situation, both in Austria and in Germany, is the coincidence of the great gold hunt, which is clearing out the trinkets of the humblest, with the roaring trade in jewelry in Berlin and Vienna.
As the Portuguese did not expect to find any people but savages beyond the Cape of Good Hope, they only brought with them some preserves and confections, with trinkets of coral, of glass, and other trifles.
She has a case at the Ritz Hotel, and she has constant orders from friends and their friends, and even from dressmakers; for these trinkets are as nearly works of art as anything so light may be.
He did not forget to take gewgaws and trinkets valued by the savage, as presents to the chiefs of the several tribes they might chance to meet.
He despatched runners loaded with presents of tobacco and other trinkets to all the Dakotas within three hundred miles of his village.
A few trinkets procured from them a supply of buffalo meat, together with leather for moccasins, of which the party were greatly in need.
All this I was ready to do for a woman who trinkets and traffics with my worst foes!
These court-tricks, and gambols, and flashes of fine women's favour are the tricks and trinkets that bring fair fortunes to farthings, and fine faces and witty coxcombs to the acquaintance of dull block and sharp axes.
In one was found many trinkets of a jet black substance, some round, others round and oblong, and others of a diamond shape, &c.
Next after these trinkets and objects of adornment we must class certain articles of a peculiar character which must have been pendants or appendages to bracelets.
They make bronze rings out of republican decimes, and sell these popular trinkets to the village beauties.
Various objects, consisting chiefly of trinkets and ornaments, have been met with in these tombs.
The pre-historic ornaments and trinkets found in North America consist of bracelets, necklaces, earrings, &c.
Some few trinkets of gold have been found in the lacustrine settlements of the bronze epoch; but this sort of "find" is very rare.
Some gold trinkets were also met with in these tombs.
Among the other specimens of foreign productions, we must not omit to mention graphite, which was used to surface pottery, amber beads, and even a few glass trinkets suitable for female adornment.
When I first came here," said Kate, "it used to seem very sad to me to find Aunt Katharine's little trinkets lying about the house.
All three were standing near the dressing-glass, and one was examining some of the little trinkets which she had laid down.
To him they appeared like any other trinkets that the Indians loved.
The women rushed out with trinkets to sell, the children sat cross-legged in the dirt, the dogs barked and young women with babies on their backs crept out of their doors.
Jim stooped and picked up a handful of the fallentrinkets and as he let them fall again through his fingers, the Buddies' eyes met.
Greedily he plunged in his hands, tossing the trinkets up as a miser might, and then he danced about the marvelous find.
From each side of the saddle hangs an esquimoot, a sort of pocket, in which she bestows the residue of her trinkets and nick-nacks, which cannot be crowded on the decoration of her horse or herself.
The maker of the stick-pin in London, England, was cabled to by the Canadian Government, and a Mr. Hayward summoned to come from there to identify the trinkets of his murdered brother.
For this purpose various trinkets or toys are marked with numbers; these numbers are written upon separate tickets, which are rolled up and put into a small basket or basin.
The chiefs of these villages and the Indians rendered homage, took the oath as the others had done, and gave as their recognition small trinkets of gold necklaces, cornerillas [cornerinas?
I had a number of beautiful seals and trinkets hanging from my watch-chain, and I had not had the time to put myself in a state of perfect decency again.
But the box in her hand is mine,' said Marie, not forgetting her trinkets in her misery.
He asked her where she and Marie kept their jewelry;--for during the last twelve months rich trinkets had been supplied to both of them.
The reader may remember that there had been a watch and chain, and that two of the ladies of the family had expressed an opinion that these trinkets should be returned to Mr Brehgert who had bestowed them.
We will get at Yeneseisk whatever you think the Ostjak will prize most--knives and beads for the women, and some cheap trinkets and looking-glasses.
He bought rather more hatchets, knives, and trinkets than they had agreed upon, and two sacks of flour, although he deemed the latter to be a luxury that they could very well dispense with altogether.
Say, do you know that a few sermons like those gold trinkets would do more to convert the world than all the theological seminaries that ever bewildered the brains of poor preachers?
Tell her to bring nothing but what is strictly necessary, above all no diamonds or trinkets of any value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trinkets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: finery; sundries; trash
