| But I might have known that she could not, all at once, wean herself from the trumpery. |
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| England will blow your trumpery little fleet out of the water and sweep your tinpot army into Siberia for this. |
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| There's suffering enough, without adding to it with our trumpery judgments! |
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| He's a curiously wrought cabinet full of shells and other trumpery, which were much better quite empty than so emptily filled. |
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| It's the way to make any trumpery tempting, to ticket it at a high price in that way. |
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| Who would present a diamond as big as a walnut with a trumpery puzzle? |
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| She must push as vigorously as any trumpery adventuress in May Fair. |
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| I can't think how she came to be satisfied with a trumpery Irish one. |
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| Thou could'st not prize the rose and the nightingale, but thou wast ready to kiss the swineherd for the sake of a trumpery plaything. |
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| Away with all such degrading, debasing, dehumanizing trumpery! |
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| For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age. |
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| In the very height of our prosperity my perverse pupil sticks to her trumpery family quarrel. |
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| Do you suppose my feelings are a trumpery set of social observances, to be harrowed to order and exhibited at funerals? |
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| All he saw was the trumpery parasol that arched its pinkness above her giggling head. |
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| Do they imagine that I either knew or cared for their trumpery wager! |
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| The trumpery thing had seemed a sign to them, and now the sign was broken. |
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| I cannot hide from myself that there is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of toys and the trumpery of a theatre, in sculpture. |
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| Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his trumpery love. |
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| Think of Milton, Shakespeare, Washington, standing before a reverent world tricked out in the glass beads, the brass ear-rings and tin trumpery of the savages of the plains! |
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| Over it hang some fifty gold and silver lamps, which are kept always burning, and the place is otherwise scandalized by trumpery, gewgaws, and tawdry ornamentation. |
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| To be sure, one can't help pitying the poor young man, and yet he doth not deserve much pity neither, for demeaning himself with such kind of trumpery. |
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