knicknack

It was after midnight when I grabbed every vase and porcelain knicknack I could hold and stood on the frozen lawn, hurling each useless treasure to the ground until everything lay smashed.

The End Of Normal: My Life As A Madoff 2011

Bette loses her temper and blows up a knicknack, tipping Chloe to who the real meteor freak was.

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– The St. Paul Saints, an independent minor-league baseball team known for out-there promotional ideas, is doing the bobblehead souvenir thing one better with a “bobblefoot” knicknack that must be seen to be appreciated.

Tidbits for the Long Weekend - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

– The St. Paul Saints, an independent minor-league baseball team known for out-there promotional ideas, is doing the bobblehead souvenir thing one better with a “bobblefoot” knicknack that must be seen to be appreciated.

Tidbits for the Long Weekend - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Afterwards, we walked a block (though we thought with all that food we should just walk all the way to the movies) to this cool gift/stationary/book/knicknack store.

dulligirl Diary Entry dulligirl 2007

Ch'un with another smile, "fully ten tiaos, so take them and bring me, when at any time you stroll out of doors, either some fine writings or some ingenious knicknack."

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Bertha was a servant for many years before she married, and had collected many precious possessions, and she and Friedrich had a comfortable home with plenty of furniture and full of all the useless and hideous knicknack which apparently make so many people happy.

The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

They went higher still and Beautrelet saw the room containing the clocks and other time-pieces, the book-room -- oh, the splendid bindings, the precious, undiscoverable volumes, the unique copies stolen from the great public libraries -- the lace-room, the knicknack-room.

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

It was easy to judge by the reverberation of the blows that his men were attacking the last door but one, the door that gave access to the knicknack-room.

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

She had thought it into existence; and there was not a cabinet against a wall, not a rug on a floor, not a cushion on a chair, not a knicknack on a mantelpiece, not a plate in a rack, but had come there by the design of her brain.

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899