It was just a beautiful bauble, one of those shining gauds for which women break their hearts or with which they seek to break other women's.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
To the best of my belief I have never envied the people who can afford to possess the gauds I have sometimes admired in the windows of shops, in which only the rich can ever deal.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
The world's brightest gauds and its most solid advantages were of no worth in his eyes, when compared to the cause of what he considered truth, and the good of his fellow-creatures.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.