Here, then, was her opportunity. Always a diplomatist rather than a general, she gave up the battlefield for the council chamber. She planned the robberies which defter hands achieved; and, turning herself from cly-filer to fence, she received and changed to money all the watches and trinkets stolen by the gang.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
So poor Jack was forced to seize the parson's watch and trinkets as well, and thus it was that a second time we faced the Blind Beak.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
It fell out as he expected; the hungry troopers made a dash to save the trinkets; the prisoner seized a brace of pistols and leapt to the door. But, alas, the pistols missed fire, Harry was immediately overpowered, and on the morrow was carried, sick and sorry, before the Justice. From Dunstable he travelled his last journey to Newgate, and, being condemned at the Old Bailey, he was hanged till he was dead, and his body thereafter was carried for dissection to a surgeon's in that same Covent Garden where he first deserted his hackney cab for the pleasures of the town.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Yes, sir, a very eccentric man; and he must have been wealthy too. What a lot of expensive trinkets he had!" . "Did he stay there long with you?" I went on to ask. "Yes, about a year. And, for that very reason, it was a memorable year to me. He gave me a great deal of trouble -- but there, let bygones be bygones! You see, it is true enough, there are people like that, fated from birth to have all sorts of strange things happening to them!"
"Strange?" I exclaimed, with an air of curiosity, as I poured out some tea.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
"No," quoth Mistress Clorinda quite carelessly, as she once more turned to the contents of the oaken wardrobe; "but I thought I missed a trinket I was wearing for a wager, and I would not lose it before the bet is won."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
She began to play with some trinkets attached to his watch chain;--a very small gold compass especially impressed her fancy by the trembling and flashing of its tiny needle, and she murmured, coaxingly:--英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
Something you fix by dangling trinkets in front of my face.美剧 · 《Billions》
And speaking of jewlry and "shouldn't haves," I was feeling sorry for Sonia, and I gave her a little trinket.美剧 · 《Modern Family》