Knickknacks

Usage examples of trinkets.

If they had engaged in real combat, ten Trinkets would have been no match for one Colonel Rui.

Her parents quickly learned that when she set out the boards, more trinkets were sold.

The right aisle told the story of Jair, of his humble birth among the casteless Touched and his unparalleled rise into the castes, first as a merchant of trinkets from a blanket in the square, then as a guildsman-weaver, fashioning similar blankets.

Seti blood, the importance of which he exaggerated by wearing countless charms and trinkets from the north Quon Tali tribeeven though the Seti themselves had long since ceased to exist except in name, so thoroughly had they been assimilated into Quon culture.

Ellemir, standing beside him, handed them out, trinkets of silver and sometimes copper.

Trogite explorer purchased the friendship of the savages of Shaan with a few worthless trinkets, and they led him to that region where the rivers had sandy bottoms.

The slimy fellow bought three marvelous trinkets from the Old Man of the Mountain, as well as three feathers that precisely resembled the feathers of the Kings of Birds.

Then he disguised himself as a lame peddler and he approached the handmaidens with some sort of tale -- he worshipped the princess from afar, for example, and would give anything to own something that she had touched -- and he offered to give the marvelous trinkets to the maidens if they would do him one small favor.

One by one they returned with the feathers, and one by one he handed them the trinkets, and one by one he stabbed them to the heart.

The Weapons checked pockets and packs of the dead for valuable trinkets or coins, but the two were out of luck.

As she did so, something gold glittered in a basket of trinkets on display on the far end of the counter.