How To Use Bric-a-brac In A Sentence
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All saleable items would be greatly appreciated, including furniture, delph and bric-a-brac (no clothes).
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Stalls selling everything from books and bric-a-brac to cakes and crafts will be on the agenda, as well as games, a tombola and a raffle.
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France grew up on a farm much like the one she describes, and paints a picture of bucolic pastures concealing a stagnant community of unresolved resentments where the same pieces of bric-a-brac circulate the jumble sales and the postmistress runs a secret information network to rival that of any South American dictator.
Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
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Auctions aren't so much funerals as autopsies, where you really do get to rummage through the personal bric-a-brac.
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It is a mini-encyclopedia of bric-a-brac and unconsidered trifles, ranging from apostle jugs to wine and sauce labels.
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She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub.
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While away the hours browsing for books, CDs, games, retro clothing, bric-a-brac.
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From its original LP release in 1973, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has ballooned to the six audio and video discs plus bric-a-brac such as marbles and replica tour tickets included in the recently released "Immersion Box Set" version of the album.
Snapshot
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Fort Street is awash with rare coins and stamps, old silver, and all manner of bric-a-brac
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The domestic overtones set up by endearing dolls, toys and china bric-a-brac bring this menace close to home.
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The bare, white space looked even smaller than when it had been filled with Ali's bric-a-brac and hearty presence.
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Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or decorating Japanese pots with decalcomanie butterflies would be, and these people fling mud at the elegant Englishman,
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03
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The cafe is dark with wood panels, a low bar with a mirrored rear wall, loads of ancient bric-a-brac, and pictures and maps of old Spandau, which was already a sizable town back when Berlin was a mere pup of a village.
Around Berlin in 80 beers
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I would find myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly misplaced, in horrible chambres garnies, where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric-a-brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.
The Guardian World News
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In the first stable, off the bay, was an astonishing display of unrelated bric-a-brac.
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It is expected that a large variety of items will be available for sale, including craftwork, baking and general bric-a-brac.
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Yet it still manages to retain that gallery ambience with an ambiguous dance between art object and bric-a-brac.
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The central open-air market is the heart of the city, pumping an assortment of useless bric-a-brac and expensive marionettes out to its furthermost reaches, and generally keeping the tourist cash flowing.
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But this album is far from just a bric-a-brac jumble.
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Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries, in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac.
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Down in the bric-a-brac bargain basement one item did catch my imagination, and even at its suggested £450 price tag I'd be sorely tempted to bid for a weather-beaten brown leather panel-stitched rugby ball signed by each of the 1971 British Lions touring party to New Zealand.
Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating
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This is not some cheesy fair for selling bric-a-brac.
Fun Event in Chapala at the Yacht Club
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Items at the garage sale include clothes, furniture, children's toys, household items, kitchenware, bric-a-brac, indoor plants and lots more.
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They were forced to commute from building to building in bright orange inflatable life rafts taken from the airplanes, rowing past floating office equipment and assorted military bric-a-brac.
A Covert Affair
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St Sampsons Social Centre for Old People, in Church Street, was rented out on Mondays to local causes so they could hold table-top fundraising sales of jumble and bric-a-brac.
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according to the scathing on-screen script it matches one kind of bric-a-brac with another, sending up all kinds of rhetoric from computer etiquette to management deadspeak.
The Guardian World News
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The drawing room upstairs has an interesting assortment of objets d' art and bric-a-brac.
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No wires, little heat, just a big void usually stuffed with cleaning items, shoe polish and a lot of bric-a-brac.
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According to Delhi wisdom, this is where locals come to recover the bric-a-brac recently burgled from their houses.
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There will be various stalls including a bookstall, cake stall, bric-a-brac and tombola.
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Set decoration like table lamps or bric-a-brac should be secured so that they cannot be dislodged by a bump.
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A great variety of attractive gifts drew everyone's attention for purchases at the cake stall, toys, raffles, bric-a-brac.
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The open-air market is pumping an assortment of useless bric-a-brac out to its furthermost reaches.
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The walls teemed with framed paintings, while bric-a-brac sprang from every possible surface, toadstools in a forest.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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They enjoyed nothing more than an afternoon browsing in what they called the bric-a-brac shops.
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And seeing those rooms through her eyes, with their rugs and fireplaces and bric-a-brac, Alessandro grimaced and bowed his head.
Three Stages of Amazement
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Grown ups hunted for a bargain at the book, video, CD and bric-a-brac stalls.
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Huaihai Zhonglu, for example, is lined with stores whose shop windows are adorned with expensive, luxury clothing, dazzling jewellery and arty-crafty bric-a-brac, etc.
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There are two large main bars with nooks and crannies leading off, all cluttered with ancient bric-a-brac.
Around Berlin in 80 beers
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They would also welcome donations of saleable items including books, toys, bric-a-brac, cakes, etc.
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The stores were packed wall to wall with antiques, novelties, furniture, restaurant equipment and bric-a-brac.
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Please support us by providing bric-a-brac, clothes, unwanted but saleable articles, etc.
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And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right — he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a-brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since
Chapter 24
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Attractions will include games, tombola, and a lucky dip as well as bric-a-brac sales.
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It is well worth a visit as there are bargains in furniture, household goods, delph and bric-a-brac.
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As it was quiz night, we decided to vacate our table and eat in the dining room, which like the bar is stuffed with interesting objects and bric-a-brac - all of which is for sale.
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The shop stocks a selection of second-hand books, bric-a-brac, models, toys, games and a selection of official Yorkshire Air Ambulance souvenirs.
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There were also quite a lot of Indian traders with their stalls full of bric-a-brac, combs, hair pins, scarves, etc.
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Instead you take the box out from under your bed, and you sort through the bric-a-brac of your life.
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They would also welcome donations of saleable items including books, toys, bric-a-brac, cakes, etc.
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Skip the bric-a-brac, and only have one or two simple decorations, such as a few flowers in a vase or a Zen garden.
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Dans son jardin «magique», un cabanon fait office de temple et de cabinet de consultation : un charivari mystico-ésotérique tendu de rouge, un bric-à-brac saturé d'encens, de statuettes païennes et religieuses, de pentacles et de bougies.
Carmen : The Last Witch
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Huaihai Zhonglu, for example, is lined with stores whose shop windows are adorned with expensive, luxury clothing, dazzling jewellery and arty-crafty bric-a-brac, etc.
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PLUS DON'T MISS San Telmo Market | Browse this flea market for high-class bric-a-brac. mercadodesantelmo.com Recoleta Cemetery | Grand old families and military heroes lie entombed in mini pantheons of every imaginable architectural style.
Buenos Aires
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She liked bric-a-brac and furniture, but I only realised my preference for clothes when I went off on my own.
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There are a few good stories to be found in this bric-a-brac collection of anecdotes, repartees, narratives of one kind and another, stories deserving of a better treatment than could be imparted by the monkish scribe who set them down in casual confusion; and more than one later poet and playwright has been able to pick a pearl of price out of this medieval medley.
Introduction
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At the Spring Fair, there will be many attractions, (besides the dogs,) including stalls selling doggy objects, bric-a-brac, cakes, plus face painting, tombola and raffles.
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Anyone wanting to contribute books and bric-a-brac should call after 6pm.
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Bianca is credited with percussion: assorted bric-a-brac that included children's toys and a gold-chain belt.
