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.

The spectacles, or shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of that order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they attracted, we are not the only credulous nation in the world.

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.

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

If he paid Johnson the most trumpery of compliments, Johnson bowed low, and down it went on Boswell's cuff!

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?

"Do you remember all the trumpery I used to have on my toilet-table?" she demanded.