A triumphal arch, quite twenty feet high, is being covered with coloured paper and tinsel, and a line of flags and freshly cut palm leaves leads to the little siding on the line that goes to Rangoon.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
For though we pack our hearts daily with the stuff of life, only time shows us which is the tinsel we have coveted, and which the lump we have not known to be gold.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
What's all this but show and tinsel?
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn