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Updated: June 21, 2025
Here are brilliant cotton velvets and sateens and tinselled muslins and gay ribbons that take the eye of his women folk; here are trays of Brummagem knickknacks, brass watches, and rings set with coloured glass, gorgeous celluloid hair combs, mirrors with elaborate, gilded frames, and brass lamps with "hand-painted" shades and dangling lustres; here are German accordions and mouth-organs and all sorts of pocket-knives and alarm-clocks the greatest collection of glittering and noisy trash that can be imagined, bought at so much a dozen and retailed, usually, at about the same price for one.
'Commodore! said the stranger, starting up, 'my coach place booked, one outside leave you to pay for the brandy-and-water, want change for a five, bad silver Brummagem buttons won't do no go eh? and he shook his head most knowingly. Now it so happened that Mr.
"So do I, I hate it like poison; but if it is there, I like it to be true. There is a sort of persons going now, and one meets them out here and there every day of one's life, who are downright Brummagem to the ear and to the touch and to the sight, and we recognize them as such at the very first moment. My honoured lord and master, Sir Raffle, is one such. There is no mistaking him.
He resents it to such an extent that he has been known, at least on one occasion, to declare that one single pipe of his I believe he alluded to the Brummagem relic preposterously attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh was worth the whole of my collection put together.
I also took the liberty, as you know, of a general look round, and discovered that little collection of Brummagem rings and trinkets that you have just seen used in Polly's education, no doubt.
The old gesture. "They will have it," he said. "Shall we go to the hotel, Senor Trent, and rest?" Trent nodded, and the three men scrambled up the beach, across an open space, and gained the shelter of a broad balcony, shielded by a striped awning which surrounded the plain white stone hotel. A Kru boy welcomed them with beaming face and fetched them drinks upon a Brummagem tray.
A few of the boatmen who were permitted to come on board vociferously importuned the new-comers for a job, or pressed great bargains upon us in the shape of fresh fruit, Brummagem stones, curiously ornamented boxes of shells, and toy carvings in ivory and ebony, the latter mostly representing elephants and Chinese idols.
Well, he's only got as far as the elephant, and that's in Brummagem town as sure as I am sitting here." "Do you hear this, Glyn?" cried Singh excitedly. "Oh yes, I hear," was the reply, and the two lads exchanged glances, while Ramball sat shaking and nodding his head like a mandarin image. "It's no use, gentlemen. You threw that chance away.
A work-table of rosewood inlaid with brass, which had been a wedding-present, and was a costly thing originally, but in that peculiar taste which is vulgarly called "Brummagem," stood at hand: the brass had started in several places, and occasionally made great havoc in the children's fingers and in Mrs.
'You see, I didn't know what a racing stable meant, continued Maulevrier, mildly apologetic 'in fact, I thought it was an easy way for a nobleman to make as good a living as your City swells, with their soft goods or their Brummagem ware, a respectable trade for a gentleman to engage in.
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