Bawble


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Baw´ble


n.1.A trinket. See Bauble.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.
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Indeed, it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art, which were otherwise bawbles. When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
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Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles [sic] and find them ornamental.
"This prospering country is your ornament": Emerson and the "instructive" value of the cosmopolitan project

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