Sample Sentences forbric-a-brac (auto-selected)
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Because of the wheelchair, we keep wide aisles, few tables, no bric-a-brac that he might knock over.† (source)
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Absolutely nothing up there now but bric-a-brac.† (source)
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Pink marble walls and white marble floors were enclosed by arched and vaulted ceilings; an assembly room had been done in the manner of the High Italian Renaissance, another was illuminated by chandeliers flashing with crystal teardrops; there was a wall of fragile French windows overlooking an Italian garden of marble bric-a-brac; the library was Provencal on the first floor, rococo on the second.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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And so there's no necessity for broken bric-a-brac.† (source)
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All she saw was rows of polished copper pots, huge potted plants, and more china bric-a-brac.† (source)
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Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest.† (source)
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In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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