The author of the Pleasures of Hope, with a richer and deeper vein of thought and imagination, works it out into figures of equal grace and dazzling beauty, avoiding on the one hand the tinsel of flimsy affectation, and on the other the vices of a rude and barbarous negligence.

We were evidently supposed to be in very brilliant societybrilliant, however, with a fictitious lustre that betrayed the tinsel beneath, and reminded one of a fashionable reception on the boards of the Haymarket or the Porte St. Martin.

Bianca cast aside her sparkling coryphean tinsel, and, putting on a quiet gown and natty little cap, appointed herself nurse-in-chief to her dear husband, and no one was better fitted for the post.

Keith and the Little Colonel were cutting tinsel into various lengths for Virginia to tie into fringe for a gay banner.

Home-made ice-cream was passed in little ice cups which had as decorations around the rim a circlet of glittering silvery tinsel.

By noon, they were hanging tinsel on the tree, and Jennifer was telling him that she could finally get some really nice decorations.

But what I was saying was this: that I've learnt that the world likes tinsel and glitterjust as the Sioux Indians are caught by glass beads and lengths of Turkey red calico.

It was possible, she thought, that another year it might be wiser not to shut up her palace at all, but so far to overcome her feelings as to exhibit the superb hangings, the banners, the damask, and cloth of gold, used in the mediaeval festivals and processions, and thus outdo the modern tinsel of Count Nobili.