this St. Martin's Trumpery.

St. Martin's Trumpery.

There will be no compliments, no pretty speeches, no little gifts of flowers, and such trumpery amenities.

"At length my eyes, in going the circuit of the room, fell upon a trumpery filigree card-rack of pasteboard that hung dangling by a dirty blue ribbon from a little brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantelpiece.

All the trumpery of exploded pharmacopoeias was revived under new names.

As if to show that it was the disproportion of the sizes which unfitted him to notice the lady, the larger he grows the bigger he wants his toys, till, when his wish reaches to life-sizes, good-by to the trumpery, and onward with realities.

Here a window displayed a heap of sailor's thimbles and pack-thread; there another set forth an array of trumpery glass vases or a basket of stale fruit, pretexts, perhaps, for the disguise of a "leaving shop," or unlicensed pawnbroker's establishment, out of which I expected to see Miss Pleasant Riderhood come forth, twisting up her back hair as she came.

I leave it to those who know Indian mythology better than I do, to interpret the meaningor rather the past meaning, for I suspect it means very little nowof all this trumpery and nonsense, on which the poor folk seem to spend much money.

Your poetry is like no other:those cursed Dryads and Pagan trumperies of modern verse have put me out of conceit of the very name of poetry.

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.

A sensible man will look for a sensible woman; he will not concern his sensible head over such trumperies as a pair of bright eyes, or a red lip or so, or a satisfactory suit of hair.

It isn't as if he was an English Marquis even, like Lord Valmond, that would be of some importancebut a trumpery French title, without any land or money, it is ridiculous.

" "The cause of the dispute is trumpery enough, and in itself wholly insufficient to cause a war between two great nations.

To him their parchments and wigs, their cells and rods and hang-ropes, their mitres, chasubles, vestments, incense, chantings, services, bells, and books counted as so much trumpery.

These proclivities Megilp's conversation, pursuits, and studio full of trumpery were calculated to gratify.

I'll have no such trumpery about my house.

Would you have thought it worthy of consideration, if such a servant had thought proper to appropriate to her own use a cart-load of this trumpery?

Hodd with his five children, Tibbins with eight or nine, Mrs. West and her widow daughter and three children, and the Porters with a bedridden father?' 'They are dreadfully overcrowded. Is there really no place?' 'Probably not nearer than those trumpery new tenements at Bonchamp.

Would any indifferent foreigner, who should read the trumpery lately written by Asgil, Tindal, Toland, Coward, and forty more, imagine the Gospel to be our rule of faith, and confirmed by parliaments?

The statuary, who cares nothing about Time, loves to drop his costuming, trumpery altogether.

The people who moved out haven't left any trumpery.

No heavy, dirt-laden carpets to clean, no papered walls and ceilings to break their back over, no trumpery brickaty brack to take care of and dust and make life a burden.

The most hostile intentions have been averted, and imminent peril escaped, by the timely present of a few rows of bright-coloured beads, or a small piece of looking-glass; and the most trumpery European gewgaws have elicited more admiration, afforded greater pleasure, and effected more goodwill, than the most costly treasures could purchase among civilized nations.

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.

It's wonderful how he takes on about that trumpery table!"