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bric-a-brac
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  • Only a glance showed us that this was more than the usual hodgepodge of bric-a-brac and hollow-seated chairs.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • Knowing of Mr. Odom's precarious financial situation, I was not surprised that he made several allusions to the fact that everything in the house was for sale—carpets, paintings, furniture, bric-a-brac.†  (source)
  • It was a stone church, and there was a ground-floor or even underground mustiness to the place, which was overcrowded with dark wood bric-a-brac, somber with dull gold organ pipes, garish with confused configurations of stained glass—through which not a single branch of a tree was visible.†  (source)
  • And so there's no necessity for broken bric-a-brac.†  (source)
  • All she saw was rows of polished copper pots, huge potted plants, and more china bric-a-brac.†  (source)
  • Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest.†  (source)
  • In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house.†  (source)
  • I remembered, then, how it had taken longer than I expected to clear the room completely: it was crammed full of her furnishings, every sort of bric-a-brac and notion and wall hanging.†  (source)
  • We were just enjoying looking through all those things together; drifting apart then finding ourselves side by side again, maybe competing for the same box of bric-a-brac in a dusty corner lit up by a shaft of sun.†  (source)
  • After making the bed, sweeping my room and hanging up the clothes, if and when I remembered to dust the bric-a-brac, I unfailingly held one too tightly and crunched off a leg or two, or too loosely and dropped it, to shatter it into miserable pieces.†  (source)
  • Eighty-seven years to fill them, and full of brick and brack, a bric-a-brac, and she wants to break the law ....What's happened to them?†  (source)
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