We are always pleased to receive good quality bric-a-brac for our fund-raising activities. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
I was in town, and I went to that bric-a-brac shop. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Pictures and bric-a-brac are out of place in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
She moved to the bric-a-brac lining the mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
Luxury and bric-a-brac come to easy natures or in easy years. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
I like Chinese bric-a-brac, but my interest in China ends there. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation] Reference
So saying, she told Yuan Yang to go and fetch several bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Always remember when you are in Society that bric-a-brac is expensive. From Wordnik.com. [You Should Worry Says John Henry] Reference
You don't have to dig deep here before you stumble upon some ancient bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
Replace furniture, bric-a-brac and draperies and your room will be sweet and clean. From Wordnik.com. [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference
He took sharp turns on a whim, watching the froth of bric-a-brac wash over his dashboard. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
The room was empty except for bric-a-brac lining the top of a mantel against the far wall. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
The "home" does not consist in the furniture, the rooms, the bric-a-brac, or the curtains. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
"Then to the dusty shop of Pedro; to the rescue of some trifles in the matter of bric-a-brac.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Here he succeeded in getting a situation with a dealer in bric-a-brac, rare books and antiquities. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Bob stopped first, though not on account of Nita's bric-a-brac or a possible visit from Mrs. Kent. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
He found her halfway up the staircase with one of the shallow bric-a-brac cabinets open before her. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
This brother had just written him, describing the millionaires who bought his pictures and bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Hanson stared at them and around at the collection of bric-a-brac and machinery they had assembled for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
"Never mind," said Constance White, "how desolate the home furnishings would be without lovely bric-a-brac.". From Wordnik.com. [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference
Place a number of articles such as pillows, books, handkerchiefs, inexpensive bric-a-brac, etc., on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
There were carpets, rugs, and curtains in great profusion, and a bewildering array of all sorts of bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Beside the fireplace was a series of shallow fitted shelves, holding an assortment of photographs and bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
The walls teemed with framed paintings, while bric-a-brac sprang from every possible surface, toadstools in a forest. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
And the laudatory awards and other arbitrary bric-a-brac are seen as the only way by which someone can be distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
Neither is it considered elegant or refined to hit them carelessly across the forehead with the bric-a-brac for so doing. From Wordnik.com. [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference
Today, he's seen his star eclipsed by a surety bond lawyer, Wallace Stevens, whose poetry Frost dismisses as "bric-a-brac.". From Wordnik.com. [With Robert Frost, at Wal-Mart] Reference
In muddy lots at the rear of the market, workers rake the moldering bric-a-brac of outdated electronics into piles and set them ablaze. From Wordnik.com. [Economies Go Underground] Reference
Dust bric-a-brac and put on the bed if you are sweeping a sleeping room, if another room put them on the table, or in an adjoining room. From Wordnik.com. [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference
Or, if I were as careful about getting things for my mind as I am in accumulating useless bric-a-brac, it would be far more to my credit. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
State system as a unit, and every article in the booth was the work of the schools, including the furniture, pottery, bric-a-brac, and hangings. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
My dancing debacle was well behind me and I was making my voice heard on weightier subjects than the bric-a-brac in women's handbags. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
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