| The countess's long fleshy face emerges, ruinously ogling, from a stack of ostrich feathers and pendant geegaws. |
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| Here's a look at some ideas for holiday gifts, from wines to spirits to gizmos, gadgets and geegaws. |
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| Fueled by my sister's incessant shopping, every surface sags under the weight of knick-knacks and geegaws. |
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| Years of accumulated detritus and geegaws have been successfully palmed off onto relatives and neighbours. |
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| He failed to give his people anything but the geegaws and baubles stolen from successful cultures. |
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| Now we buy them over and over again, lured by new geegaws and crisper sound. |
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| After a few more shops all the geegaws bled together and I could take no more fabulous flotsam. |
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| The modern version of straw geegaws is cultural capital in the form of stories and photographs. |
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| The low exchange rate, and the current account deficit, also mean that they are actually lending us a good portion of the money we use to buy their geegaws. |
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| Now that we're past the basics, let's look at one of the most overlooked features of better-quality digital audio geegaws and the whole point of this month's column. |
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| By crafting a narrative not from the significantly impressive facts but from the glittery geegaws of the plausible. |
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| And, for once, it's a relief not be bamboozled by too many gadgets and geegaws. |
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| If I throw together enough relays and geegaws in a big shiny box, make drawings and photos, and piece together an explanation of what's supposed to happen, I have a patent. |
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| There were also books by and about Twain, steamboat models, jaw harps and pennywhistles, and all manner of other geedunk and geegaws. |
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| All the digital geegaws aren't going to win a lot of National Magazine Awards, which Mr. Granger is old-school enough to take as an important metric of success. |
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| They turned out to be the same sort of detritus as everything else. Junk and mathoms and useless geegaws. |
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| But for now, it can wow the punters with fireworks and geegaws. |
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