She had felt, as she sat listening to him, that his speech was a pack of lies, a mess of conventional trumpery and platitudes!

The first absolute trumpery when put in competition with the second; yet the former, I believe, sold about ten times the number of the latter.

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In nine cases out of ten they are mere trumpery, but, such as they are, no maid of all work will go out for her Sunday walk without her brooch and earrings and chain.

I have stood off a long time from these Annuals, which are ostentatious trumpery, but could not withstand the request of Jameson, a particular friend of mine and Coleridge.

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