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  • Now, Mick, my friend, that shawl must be had for Clara, with the other trankums of muslin and lace, and so forth, which you will find marked in the paper there. —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Now whilest the Child is swadled and drest up, all the other trinkum trankums are laid aside; and the Table is spread neatly to entertain the friends, who not alone for novelties sake, but also out of a sweet tooth'd liquorish appetite, long to see what is prepared for them.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • May the eagles fly away with these trinkum-trankums of great people.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various

  • "I will be Captain Binnie, of the North Sea fleet, and Sophy will have reason enough for her muslins, and ribbons, and trinkum-trankums -- God bless her!"

    A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • -- Now, Mick, my friend, that shawl must be had for Clara, with the other trankums of muslin and lace, and so forth, which you will find marked in the paper there.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • “Come, come, mine honest Jin Vin — come, my good boy,” said the dame, in a soothing tone, “never mind these trankums — a frank and hearty London ‘prentice is worth all the gallants of the inns of court.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • "Come, come, mine honest Jin Vin -- come, my good boy," said the dame, in a soothing tone, "never mind these trankums -- a frank and hearty

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

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