Sample sentences for BRIC-A-BRAC

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small items of interest or sentimental value that could not be sold for much money

The shelf was filled with bric-a-brac from her travels around the world.

The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.
Jack London -- Martin Eden
In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
We do not go in for cheap bric-a-brac.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-a-brac, but likable.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Bits and pieces of equipment lay strewn all over the floor, and at the rear was a heavy wooden table covered with books, bottles, and bric-a-brac.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
Eighty-seven years to fill them, and full of brick and brack, a bric-a-brac, and she wants to break the law ....
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
You produce on me no effect with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-a-brac.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Octave held Esther Clumly's arm to guide her through the maze of wobbly tables, umbrella stands, lamps, bric-a-brac.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Only a glance showed us that this was more than the usual hodgepodge of bric-a-brac and hollow-seated chairs.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
And so there's no necessity for broken bric-a-brac.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Some pictures, several rugs, a few small pieces of bric-a-brac, and the tale of contents is told.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
All she saw was rows of polished copper pots, huge potted plants, and more china bric-a-brac.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Absolutely nothing up there now but bric-a-brac.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Nothing else had changed at all, except that all the old books and bric-a-brac — the marble cockatoos, the obelisks—were covered with an additional layer of dust.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Mrs. Poole's house was like a museum with all of her bric-a-brac, little crystal and pewter and silver birds and figurines which my mother ordinarily would have called "dust collectors.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
But its oddities were of a different cast from those of our hero's gilded saloons on the Boulevard Haussmann: the place was low, dusky, contracted, and crowded with curious bric-a-brac.
Henry James -- The American
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of choice bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

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