Crossword-Solution: GIMCRACK 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Almost the whole frontage was of gilt plaster and figured glass, and between that grey seascape and the grey, witch-like trees, its gimcrack quality had something spectral in its melancholy.

Thence the road climbed steeply, but at the other end of the street it ran on the level by the water’s edge, lined with gimcrack boarding-houses, now shuttered to the world, and a few villas in patches of garden.

They were vain, weak-headed young men, ridiculously confident, and preposterously proud of their plan; for they got a gimcrack painting made, of the six choice spirits who were to murder Elizabeth, with Babington in an attitude for the centre figure.

Yonder trap-door--yonder gimcrack of thine, will remain secure in appearance, will it not, though the supports are withdrawn beneath?” “Ay, marry, will it,” said Foster; “so long as it is not trodden on.” “But were the lady to attempt an escape over it,” replied Varney, “her weight would carry it down?” “A mouse's weight would do it,” said Foster.

About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton.