What is "trinket"

Usage examples of "trinket".

They were bedizened with every medallion and trinket imaginable, with ornate saddles and bridles of dyed leather, fabulous blankets, brilliant colors.

Trinket was beginning to get pins and needles, and kept restlessly jumping up and sitting down again, inwardly cursing the old bonze and his ancestors.

Westerner was thus storming, an expressman came with the little package containing the ring and the trinkets which Badger had given to Winnie.

There was all matter of trinkets and metalware that gleamed in the sunlight.

And whereas there is now hardly a town of France or Italy in which you shall not see some noble countryman of our own, with that happy swagger and insolence of demeanour which we carry everywhere, swindling inn-landlords, passing fictitious cheques upon credulous bankers, robbing coach-makers of their carriages, goldsmiths of their trinkets, easy travellers of their money at cards, even public libraries of their books--thirty years ago you needed but to be a Milor Anglais, travelling in a private carriage, and credit was at your hand wherever you chose to seek it, and gentlemen, instead of cheating, were cheated.

The boys had decided to leave for home on the ninth, and on the morning of the day set forth, moneyless but rich in trinkets and toggery.

What you eat off is yours to keep, and women in transparent gauze come by from time to time and lay little trinkets at your elbowgold knives and pinsall useless toys, but pretty enough.

He had a lot of long black hair, a drooping pistolero mustache, rubbery brown jowls, flinty little eyes deep-set under thick black brows, buffalo shoulders, a lacy white guayabera stretched taut across chest and stomach, a lot of dangling gold trinkets on a thick gold chain nested in the black chest hair, and a sharp tang of some kind of insistent male perfume.

Sulanda was a small collection of what the Gywannish had managed to grab before they fled: some trinkets, a bag of meal and a pitifully small pile of other provisions, a pulser, and a number of containers of water.

Trinket raced across the field, still holding the severed hand, and plunged into the stook where the other three were hiding.

Trinket and the Green Girl were left standing by the stock in which the White Nun was hidden, while the lamas squatted by another stook about ten or fifteen yards away, jabbering to each other in Tibetan.

They came to an isolated khaja village, and Bakhtiian traded gold trinkets and two tarpans for grain.

As Trinket had been found innocent of unchasteness, he might take a seat beside him.

Pretending to worship Rhaeie, they sold out to the archenemy Dayu like whores spreading their legs for copper trinkets.

Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.