| 单词 | bric-a-brac |
| 例句 | 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. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the America of the 1790s, Washington’s image was everywhere, in paintings, prints, lockets; on coins, silverware, plates, and household bric-a-brac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These appear to have been spread about, out of context, like titanic bric-a-brac, in a manner that would have struck the natives as highly irreverent—Egyptianizing instead of Egyptian. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The desk is covered with bric-a-brac of the artist’s trade: pens, pencils, rubber erasers, tape, scissors, razors and stacks of pliable wood underneath. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z There is an endless, constantly changing supply of paintings, furniture and bric-a-brac from every epoch and at every price. Bidding for Treasures in Paris 2010-04-27T10:02:00Z Instead of bric-a-brac, limited edition artworks by top British artists are sold from the back of their motors. Bagging a bargain at the Art Car Boot Fair 2012-05-28T17:01:32Z Around it lie mundane bric-a-brac: pens, markers, a notepad, a Rubik's cube. No Man's Sky Is Becoming Delightfully Mysterious and Weird 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Self-build tended to fall into two schools: shelters shaped from found materials and other bric-a-brac; and buildings created by local communities with their own hands, to formal architectural designs. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre 2010-08-16T20:30:00Z Visitors will be able to rummage through and buy such classic garage sale items as used clothing, books, mementos and other bric-a-brac. NYC Museum of Modern Art to feature garage sale 2012-10-11T15:17:08Z In his mind, however, he ventured far beyond any earthly borders, conjuring fantastical worlds in surprising assemblages of thrift-store exotica and assorted bric-a-brac. London’s Royal Academy of Arts Showcases the Work of Joseph Cornell 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z If you look at books of Hollywood homes in the 70s, it's just amazing how humble they are; they're like little beach shanty houses with bric-a-brac furniture. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z His chief rival, Robert Frost, even declared that Stevens’s merely wrote about “bric-a-brac.” Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She was 11 when she started helping out in a bric-a-brac shop on Saturdays, and kept coming back throughout drama school. Paulette Randall interview: 'You never know what's round the corner, do you?' 2013-07-09T15:15:02Z They outline and suggest the Victorian bric-a-brac architecture of the town’s houses and Main Street, rather than giving us the full picture. ‘Music Man’: Good times in River City 2013-02-15T22:22:43Z Anyway, they didn’t come across as souvenir bric-a-brac — well, maybe a little. | Fashion Review: Spring?s Colorful Runways - Review - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z The list, typed on what appears to be yellowing newsprint, becomes itself a collage, a virtual Cornell box with all the usual bric-a-brac elegantly arranged. 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z Anyone interested in the famously private songwriter will relish the opportunity to see footage of him puttering around his home, not to mention the close-ups of the bric-a-brac littering his office. "Sondheim" tribute would be better without songs 2010-04-23T11:43:00Z It was overwhelmingly sad, like the self-storage unit of a hoarder who had lucked into a cache of Middle Eastern and Mexican bric-a-brac. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z She was poking around bric-a-brac shops near Zuni when “she could smell this meat grilling,” Mr. Asher recalled. The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z “I think Moore has been dismissed unfairly because people think of her as writing about sort of odd bric-a-brac,” Leavell told me. The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In addition to the bric-a-brac and books covering the walls, shelves are punctuated by quirky postcards issued under the brand name Birds & Co., Next Time You Are in ... Singapore 2010-05-27T14:05:00Z For all its Egyptian bric-a-brac, however, “Gods” is largely set in a place resembling an earthquake-prone, Caribbean megaresort populated by men attired in leather frocks and women who favor studded bikini tops and snug pareus. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Look for paintings, bric-a-brac and accessories for men and women, like Evita ties and scarves. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z This Manhattan neighborhood offers two street fairs over the weekend with highbrow cuisine, bric-a-brac and live entertainment. Spare Times for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Although the novel is, from time to time, pleasantly spooky, even Oliver’s best scare effects don’t linger long in the mind because there’s so much bric-a-brac. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The collecting fever snowballed with weekend trips to auctions in Connecticut, where he would fill his Country Squire station wagon with pictures, furniture and bric-a-brac. There’s No Business Like Art Fair Business for Sanford Smith 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The room is cluttered with the old man’s books, tools and bric-a-brac, objects that fill Finn’s mind with fragmented memories of him. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Morgenrot, however, holds true to East Berlin’s socialist roots — with bric-a-brac décor, radical politics, a weekly feminist knitting circle, and a mostly-vegan weekend brunch where patrons pay according to a sliding-scale system. In Transit Blog: (Vegan) Brunch Options Abound in East Berlin 2012-04-05T17:52:37Z But amid the bric-a-brac, emotions are stirring as Cartwright follows the stories of individual villagers. This week's new theatre 2012-12-08T00:05:49Z “I visited his studio and was completely fascinated by this universe he’s created from little objects and bric-a-brac,” Ms. Josenhans said. A Little Piece of Downtown Damascus in New Haven 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The text is a clip job, consisting almost entirely of excerpts from Toscanini’s letters and other documentary bric-a-brac. Review: In ‘Maestro,’ a Downbeat Look at the Great Toscanini 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Around 2002, he began producing perhaps his best known series: sculptural reliefs of Queen Elizabeth teeming with flea-market bric-a-brac, and plastic flowers and toys. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z There are white subway tiles, vintage photographs, a chalkboard menu and a selection of bric-a-brac assembled by an owner, Jala Alsoufi, a recent architecture and psychology graduate. Toronto Suddenly Has a New Craving: Syrian Food 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z By the later 1960s, though, she was running a secondhand clothes and bric-a-brac shop. Anne Valery obituary 2013-05-16T15:36:43Z All are rich in perceptions and pithy phrasing, like his blunt assessment of the value of collecting kudos: “Awards have three things to offer: cash, confidence and bric-a-brac.” Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z At a distance, it shrinks right back to what it simply is: an updated antique, a piece of familiar British bric-a-brac. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z “It was opened by my father in 1949,” she told me as I rummaged through a charmingly cluttered collection of old postcards, Dominican cigars and bric-a-brac, which included a big cardboard cutout of George Burns. How to Do Beverly Hills on a Budget 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z In July 2009, two American cultural commentators, Rob Walker and Josh Glenn, began to buy and resell bric-a-brac at their Significant Objects store on eBay. For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z “He’s very angry with me,” Mr. McGough said, in his walk-up apartment stuffed with artwork and bric-a-brac. They Were Victorian Dandies Who Made Art. Now They’re On the Outs. 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Too fussy, too formal, no place for soft pants or grilled treats, the dining room in many homes is a repository for bills, bric-a-brac, dust, Thanksgiving. The new American status symbol: A backyard that’s basically a fancy living room 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The movie then enters a queasy holding pattern; he takes to wandering off, and the girl’s obsessive-compulsive tendencies worsen, though she also indulges a flair for bric-a-brac art. ‘I’m the Same I’m an Other,’ the 2nd Part of a Trilogy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z A writer who lived and loved through the Cuban Revolution, Luis Vargas now sells bric-a-brac that no one seems to buy. Review: ‘Sin Alas’ Opens Up a Time Capsule in a Changing Havana 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie’s plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities. The Art of Animated Reality: Walerian Borowczyk and Jacques Demy 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Eventually, Charles dropped out of school and did his part to support the family by hawking bric-a-brac on the street. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z There are piles of dolls, stuffed animals, ceramic bric-a-brac. Theater Review: In ‘The Capables,’ Reality TV Is Used for an Intervention 2013-07-24T02:00:01Z Camden Market resembles a Moroccan souk, all passageways and stalls selling T-shirts, vintage vinyl and bric-a-brac. A tour of Amy Winehouse’s former stomping grounds, London’s Camden 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The owner and chef, Deon Jacobs, serves pan-Euro comfort classics — fish and chips, warm beef salads — surrounded by antiques and contemporary bric-a-brac, all for sale. Surfacing: New Life in a Johannesburg Suburb 2010-03-12T18:22:00Z The Barnes’s collection, housed in a 1920s Beaux-Arts suburban mansion, was arranged in “wall ensembles” that mixed blue-chip Picassos and voluptuous Renoir nudes with works by forgotten local artists and a bizarre assortment of bric-a-brac. Critic?s Notebook: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums 2011-03-27T01:30:05Z Start the day hunting through the old clothes, used books and unusual bric-a-brac at the city’s biggest flea market, which takes place every Saturday under the shady trees of Petersplatz, just off Petersgraben street. 36 Hours in Basel, Switzerland 2014-01-23T16:48:12Z Still, the design, a pleasing hodgepodge of red curtains and bric-a-brac, warms the New Ohio Theater’s somewhat clinical space. ‘Feather Gatherers’ Gives a Twist to a Russian Folk Tale 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And with that, Mr. Cave went back to work for an evening session amid his bric-a-brac — there were still miles to go to get “Until” up and running. The Artist Nick Cave Gets Personal About Race and Gun Violence 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Being surrounded by all that crochet and bric-a-brac. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z And everywhere else is welded iron and hand-painted biblical signage and bric-a-brac to overrun a landfill. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z The bric-a-brac on display is hardly confined to actual objects. | 'Radio Play' : Back to a Time (the ?80s) When Digital Was a Mere Dream 2011-05-16T21:41:52Z But as the Brits bring home more of our award bric-a-brac, it has become increasingly apparent how a lack of diversity — in both demographic representation and acting versatility — is causing us to come up short. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Another expedition involved visiting a “car boot sale,” a flea market particular to the U.K. in which ordinary folk park their cars in a field and sell bric-a-brac from the trunk. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z He is constantly asking us for snacks, using our laps as lounging pillows, or insisting that we dangle strings or other bric-a-brac around him for his amusement. Perspective | Miss Manners: Something fishy about lazy, selfish ‘houseguest’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z There’s something generic about their house, which looks less lived in than indifferently art directed, with the usual bric-a-brac and strategic family pictures. | 'Cyrus': Jonah Hill in Duplass Brothers? Comedy 2010-06-17T21:55:00Z The new series also boasts a stylish, reinvented Tardis, featuring a central console made up of bric-a-brac from through the ages, including a gramophone speaker, 1980s phone and a typewriter. Doctor Cool 2010-04-01T22:26:00Z The risk for ambitious, eclectic exhibitions like this one is that they can end up resembling bric-a-brac shops. Victoria and Albert Exhibition Opens a ’60s Treasure Chest 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Common rooms are painted in earthy oranges and yellows and furnished in the sweet spot around four parts tasteful-antique for every one part bric-a-brac. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Decorated by Dorothée Meilichzon, a 32-year-old French designer known for her elegant bric-a-brac interiors, the cozy space is an assemblage of 1950s geometric wallpapers, rough stone, plank floors and plush handmade furniture. Giving the Paris Cafe Scene a Jolt 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The last stage of the journey involved no tourism bric-a-brac, only small, twisty, increasingly difficult to navigate roads, mossy tree trunks, wind, willows, heather, cloud knuckles and gray rock. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z This isn't a commentary on the quality of the films competing right now for awards bric-a-brac. Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Set largely in a Santa Monica, Calif., house and an apartment in Pasadena, “Annabelle” is less cluttered with creepy bric-a-brac than “The Conjuring.” ‘Annabelle’ Takes Place Before ‘The Conjuring’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “It’s just sort of bric-a-brac, a private mess, a little surrealistic, with a nice surprise,” he said. Partying During the Polar Vortex 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The studio sets are something like Sirk’s playground, filled with bric-a-brac allowing the director a number of antic juxtapositions. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z My faint hope was that it would remain a quirky accent on the season, no more consequential than the other ’70s bric-a-brac that’s been outfitting the show. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 9: Going Undercover 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Ancestral English bric-a-brac has been replaced by African tchotchkes: a trio of plump wooden hippos, a copper wall clock in the shape of Africa, a standard lamp made from a varnished tree branch. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Visitors bring elaborate flower arrangements, wreaths, balloons, marching bands and all manner of bric-a-brac. Movie Review: ‘El Velador’ (‘The Night Watchman’), Mexico’s Drug War Cemetery 2012-06-13T21:43:01Z He sees himself as a maximalist in a minimalist world; a wet writer in a dry one; a lover of bric-a-brac in an era of Shaker modesty. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z She walked through aisles of bric-a-brac and nodded to a deer’s head similar to one in her picture of his cluttered work table. Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z In the meantime, the soundsuits are tragic figures, girding themselves for violence, their bric-a-brac shells poised to absorb pain, which inevitably comes. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Alpine sweaters, laced up the back, were charming, and though Pucci’s modern prints often looked displaced among the Hapsburg bric-a-brac, like tourists, Mr. Dundas’s primary concern was showing off the female body. | Fashion Review: In Milan, Trying to Leap the Obstacles 2011-03-01T00:06:14Z On Saturdays, hawkers selling antiques and bric-a-brac branch out for another mile. 36 Hours: Vienna 2012-01-05T15:57:17Z Salon des Invites Renaissance-era cabinets of curiosities - those rooms filled with exotic geological samples, horns and feathers purportedly from fabled animals, and other arcane bric-a-brac - were the precursors to the modern museum. T Magazine: Salon des Invites 2012-11-05T14:00:29Z We went to Beach Haven to tour the Long Beach Island Museum, which was crammed with Edwardian bric-a-brac, boating artifacts and, to Robin’s relief, old newspaper clippings of disastrous hotel fires and shark attacks. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z The Renoir surfaced in a box of bric-a-brac at a local flea market two years ago, in 2010. 'Stolen' Renoir removed from sale 2012-09-28T11:58:27Z Essentially, he adds, “I did a ton of schooling to return to what I was doing as a kid, burning my Transformers and making new materials out of the quotidian bric-a-brac in front of me.” Melted action figures, mushrooms, rotting French fries: Inside Max Hooper Schneider's 'feral' art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The company’s multimedia collages, often blending canonical treasures with campy bric-a-brac, have worked to undo entrenched assumptions of theatrical perception. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z As Norwich observes, you can chance upon worthy material not just in your reading but also in overheard conversations, advertisements, even on souvenir bric-a-brac. Review | These ‘Christmas crackers’ offer surprises for lovers of language 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z As the plot gathers steam and accelerates, Johnson again offers a blunt evisceration of the privileged and powerful, only with fancier cocktails, showier bric-a-brac and gaudier outfits. Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Her honorary Oscar stood inconspicuously among the bric-a-brac. Appreciation: Angela Lansbury, an instantly recognizable and readily transformable talent 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A woman who found two portraits by a 20th Century British artist on a church bric-a-brac stall has described it as her "Fiona Bruce" moment. Woman finds Sydney Arrobus artworks among church bric-a-brac 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Photos of prominent Black Bermudians, newspaper clippings, period clothing, depictions of life for enslaved people and period bric-a-brac crowd the museum walls, tables and display cases. Bermuda trail brings island’s Black heritage to the fore 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z His captivating Teach is the hair-trigger-tempered, cowardly bull in Donny’s cluttered shop — where the characters are as much discards as the bric-a-brac. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He gazed at an older woman and a young couple picking through the bric-a-brac. At a Paris Market, Costs Rise, Even for the Humble Baguette 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Stage versions of Charles Dickens’ holiday chestnut have become part of the seasonal bric-a-brac. Fall Preview: 11 SoCal theater picks to celebrate our return to the stage 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It was furnished with mismatched bookshelves and eccentric swap-meet bric-a-brac: a vintage model train, an antique service bell on the secretary’s desk, an old ranch sign offering a reward for chicken thieves. A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z “Bob contributed to the picture the magazines he was reading and albums he was listening to,” Kramer added, a reference to the bric-a-brac. Sally Grossman, Immortalized on a Dylan Album Cover, Dies at 81 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s the stuff that crowds of tourists and locals alike buy in a political fervor and that later stubbornly remains in kitchen drawers and closet shelves for years, the bric-a-brac of history. Perspective | For D.C.’s street vendors, this Inauguration Day was barren of customers — but also a relief 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Or, for that matter, an unmade project called “Mank,” the screenplay of which, written by Fincher’s journalist father, Jack, sat on a shelf in his office among Taschen tomes and other bric-a-brac. David Fincher’s Impossible Eye 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Shubow’s words were part of a more widespread series of attacks by press and politicians over the past decade; it was called a “monstrosity”, an example of “commemorative bric-a-brac,” a “classic Washington boondoggle”. Frank Gehry on his memorial to Eisenhower: ‘His accomplishments bring tears to my eyes’ 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The restaurant’s cozy walls are covered in framed photographs of England’s royal family, scenes of the English countryside and assorted bric-a-brac. Fancy a cuppa? Stop by Redmond’s British Pantry for a spot of tea or some shepherd’s pie 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z They transformed the old doughnut shop, ripping out brown carpet and painting the walls and pounding nails for their collection of art and bric-a-brac from years of scouring thrift stores. People line up at eclectic and delicious Lincoln diner 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Interviewed at home, where she is surrounded by attendants and a museum wing’s worth of gilt-framed paintings and bric-a-brac, Marcos recounts her early years and her marriage to Ferdinand. Review: 'The Kingmaker' is a coolly damning portrait of Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Often, a bookshelf has three or four law books with volume numbers on the spines, sometimes with one book laid flat, sometimes mixed in with other books, family photos, or bric-a-brac. Perspective | Ignorant, lazy or clueless: Annoying media errors that crop up again and again 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The farmhouse, built in 1783, has been restored, and it’s full of Melville bric-a-brac: Maria’s sideboard, Lizzie’s sewing stand, Herman’s harpoon. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Bright, 54, from Chelmsford, bought the film “between eight to 10 years ago” at a bric-a-brac sale. Why do some people develop the lost camera films of total strangers? 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z But much of the auctioneer’s job is fielding queries from people wondering if some bric-a-brac might have something more than sentimental value. A dusty old painting turned up in an attic in France. It may sell for $100 million 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Tan: The space is outfitted with tools and bric-a-brac of the eponymous trade. Rooftop bars are all the rage in Seattle — we rated the 4 hottest ones for your summer enjoyment 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The mainstream flat-Earth view is that there is a wall of ice at the Earth’s rim, which is presumably impervious to bric-a-brac. Flat-Earthery, British Style 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z All kinds of amazing golf bric-a-brac littered his houses. Think you know Johnny Miller? Our writer, who worked with him for 20-plus years, did and has some amazing stories to tell - Golf Digest 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Add this to the more obvious expanse of toys, household bric-a-brac and consumer packaging, and the extent of plastic’s empire becomes clear. The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A woman offered a bicycle for $15 one evening and bric-a-brac was laid out on the sidewalks. Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Spread across almost every inch of Steve Bauer’s lawn is the bric-a-brac of an ambitious yard sale: old books, kitchen utensils, a candy dispenser, camping items and used clothing. Inside the Mendocino Complex Fire Evacuation Zone 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The tavern abounds with bric-a-brac, like vintage sporting magazines and an old-timey cash register. A Stress-Free Summer Weekend in the Catskills 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The quaint distilleries and antique bric-a-brac shops draw hundreds of urban refugees each weekend. Perspective | No, those weren’t the good old days. A rant about ‘homos’ aimed at a kid reminds us why. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The last was of particular appeal to the scientist, who hung posters of her and collected Monroe-related bric-a-brac. Stephen Hawking, physicist who came to symbolize the power of the human mind, dies at 76 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Customers wander among endless rows of sofas, testing the cushions and examining the other wares, from bric-a-brac to bicycles. Charities are becoming more professional 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Despite concerns that the elegant Mall area will become “cluttered with commemorative bric-a-brac,” as columnist George F. Will put it, tourists aren’t complaining. National Mall crunched for terror war memorial space 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z But how much movie bric-a-brac can the market bear? At Warner Bros., Former Disney Exec Leads New Charge on Merchandise 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Closer to the breakers’ beach, an informal flea market of maritime bric-a-brac had been established, where secondhand traders sold recovered items from the dismantled ships. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The Dublin Writers Museum is the place to view authorial bric-a-brac. The Seattle Times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z An eclectic collection of "exploded" bric-a-brac suspended from the ceiling of a former church in Norfolk aims to keep the building "alive" as part of a conservation project. Great Yarmouth church saved by 'exploded' bric-a-brac - BBC News 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Australia's great bower bird decorating, and redecorating, his nest with shiny human bric-a-brac – "It's not easy finding sex in the city," says Attenborough. 'Planet Earth II' is packed with wonders, stories and, finally, warnings 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The clubhouse is covered with war trophies from Ukraine and military bric-a-brac. A right-wing militia trains Russians to fight the next war — with or without Putin 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The lifeboats that came stitched to vessels also could be sold on to the bric-a-brac guys beyond the yard. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z It is authentically inauthentic, sporting the same menus and wall-mounted bric-a-brac as hundreds of other outposts of Mr Martin’s empire, yet curiously honest about the fact. The parable of JD Wetherspoon 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z At the jumble sale, “Where ladies of the village fight like visigoths for pillage” he found love and assonance among the bric-a-brac: “Romance perchance prevails at humdrum jumble sales”. Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Only when he saw the finished artwork’s preposterous tableau of timepieces and rock star bric-a-brac did he think twice. ‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The house was strewn outside with gear and inside with bric-a-brac: nature books, binoculars, the sheet music to “Don’t Fence Me In,” which the family sings at weddings. Patagonia’s Philosopher-King 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The show also will include bric-a-brac from the Luther family home, including jewelry, furniture and even the tiles from the walls. Fall arts preview: Mexican modernism, Monet, and a new Smithsonian museum 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z She is also wading through the bric-a-brac she has received from guests and fans of the hotel. Chasing Waldorf’s History as It Becomes History Itself 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Frost answered, “The trouble with you, Wallace, is that you write about bric-a-brac.” The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Mr Lincoln said he was told they contained paperwork and "bric-a-brac". Hatton Garden accused admits looking after bags handed over by raider - BBC News 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z They improvise their nests using whatever shiny bric-a-brac and underbrush is around them. Michael Fassbender, Nobody’s Fool 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z She finds them in jumble sales in village halls—you always find a coronation mug on the bric-a-brac table. A Visit to the Kitchen of London Restaurateur Russell Norman 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He regularly wheels a creaking old bicycle that pulls a trolley, and almost every day fetches and fills his house with unwanted old fridges, washing machines, and a host of hoarded bric-a-brac. Readers recommend: songs about trash | Peter Kimpton 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But before the fresh allegations emerged, Pleasted had become a well known community figure running a bric-a-brac stall from a local shop, the court heard. Mother cleared of murder after stabbing convicted paedophile to death 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Describing the bags, he said: "I was told they contained paperwork, old photographs and bric-a-brac from a house that he had sold… like memorabilia." Hatton Garden accused admits looking after bags handed over by raider - BBC News 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Busts of the Emperor, and what one of the Iron Duke’s successors called a “|plethora of Napoleonic bric-a-brac”, were much more in evidence and popular than memorabilia associated with Wellington. Waterloo: A German victory? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Part social hour, part front-porch hangout, the store offers an assortment of Orient bric-a-brac as well as delicious food. Christopher Bollen's North Fork Inspirations 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z There's nowhere to hide in the rest of the lobby, which is stuffed with photos and other bric-a-brac. UCLA Coach Steve Alford has roots, and rooms, back home in Indiana 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She seemed pleased by its inconspicuousness, installed like bric-a-brac in the busy room. The Timely Sculpture of Rachel Harrison | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z This year’s Forbes Top Winter Gear picks include some of the usual bric-a-brac one might covet when heading to the mountains in winter. The Top 5 Gear Pieces For Winter 2015 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z They have converted their former gambling space into a hotel, bar and antiques shop, selling cowboy collectibles and western bric-a-brac to visitors from larger casinos, museums and the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally held nearby. After Gold and Gambling, Deadwood Seeks Its Next Rush 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Artists flooded the Bowery, and Brooklyn was full of open-air markets selling handcrafted bric-a-brac. City Room: In a Tale of the Nation’s First Spy Ring, a Spotlight on Colonial New York 2014-04-04T18:11:20Z The paintings look like the bric-a-brac cleared from an old man's home - which is exactly what they are. One lonely man and his hoard of Nazi art 2014-03-26T19:07:32Z Along with its cousin - "I like Sunday brunch in the pub with the papers and trawling round bric-a-brac markets" - this is a potentially bland description of weekend leisure time. 20 online dating cliches - and what they really mean 2014-01-07T00:31:18Z A note from your humble narrator: This is a one-time, one-off topical diversion, so, please, no need to ship me GI bric-a-brac. Really, Do We Know Squat? 2013-12-23T17:05:19Z Sunny’s has the charm of a cluttered antique store, with ceiling fans, wainscoting, a jumble of paintings and bric-a-brac, even a banjo made of a toilet seat, surrounding its chipped but sturdy wooden bar. City Room: Knocked Out by Hurricane Sandy, Sunny’s Bar Is Bouncing Back 2013-08-21T17:56:26Z Some of these vinyl junkies now occupy the highest ranks of America's business, government and art worlds, spending big money on the countercultural bric-a-brac of their youth. Rock Aficionados Try to Spin Old Vinyl Into Gold 2013-07-24T02:42:23Z But in the bric-a-brac of daily life, we turn off our curiosity, often replacing it with the short-term, the obvious, the bone-numbingly mundane. Curiosity Didn't Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap 2013-05-06T12:52:47Z As always, there will be people on the pavements at dawn setting up traditional makeshift bric-a-brac stalls. Dutch party on streets as royals prepare for handover 2013-04-29T22:34:10Z The objects and bric-a-brac that Shuer collected provided a sense of comfort, helping him overcome his social anxiety. Step Inside the Real World of Compulsive Hoarders 2013-02-25T11:15:00.223Z The “one of a kind antique” has ignited an Internet firestorm, and angry customers took to Anthropologie’s Facebook to let them know that racist bric-a-brac isn’t cute. Anthropologie’s racist candlestick 2013-01-11T17:34:00Z Upstairs, the sets for his new show are being prepared - trestle tables in the hall, bric-a-brac in the back, a surround for a Santa's grotto in the foyer. Playwright Jim Cartwright returns 2012-12-13T01:32:50Z But the town's bustling bazaar is full of shops selling clothes, films, devotional music and videos and kitsch religious bric-a-brac. In pictures: Ayodhya life over the years 2012-12-07T00:20:49Z Inspired, the man spends the rest of the commercial running around his dowdy apartment, tapping the furniture, wall hangings, bric-a-brac and, finally, his clothes, until they are transformed into stylish trappings. Media Decoder: Fab.com Tests Advertising on Television 2012-09-24T18:03:26Z The narrow lot, with bric-a-brac furnishings scattered throughout, looks more like an estate sale with potted plants on offer than a typical nursery. | East Harlem: At the Urban Garden Center, the Smell of Mulch and the Sound of Music 2012-07-27T02:06:24Z Displayed diorama-style in a sequence of vitrines — one for each chapter — the collection of bric-a-brac retells the novel. Private Peek at Author's Blur of Fact and Fiction 2012-05-02T20:40:36Z Shelves reaching to the 14-foot ceilings are stocked with bric-a-brac perfect for a procrastinator’s gaze. | Toby?s Estate: Toby?s Estate in Williamsburg Is Australian for Coffee 2012-04-14T05:21:49Z Within the houses bric-a-brac from every clime came to abound, and the merchants and their wives and children were clothed gaily in rich fabrics from remote regions. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Piles of gold and jewels were on all sides and precious ornaments and splendid cloths, rare pieces of carved furniture, vases, bric-a-brac and the like, were strewn about the room in astonishing profusion. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z The walls and chimney-piece were covered with charming little sketches, a few foreign prints, photographs, and dainty little trifles of bric-a-brac. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z In the category of the luxuries are included such articles as jewelry, musical instruments, Oriental rugs, paintings, fine bric-a-brac and the like. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z He was also a virtuoso; remitted triangle-torture, and sold tickets to his victims for extra light and air, in exchange for orders upon hapless wives for pictures, bric-a-brac, and household stuff. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Recessed into L. first flat is a china closet, containing china and bric-a-brac. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z Strange and fearful is his discovery, amid the bric-a-brac of the world, that this knowledge, or this material benefit, is for him alone. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The late Oldfield had a pretty taste in bric-a-brac; like Mr. Donald Lindsay, he'd a good eye for a promising investment. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Sri Lankan troops now sell religious bric-a-brac, run restaurants, collect refuse and build cricket stadiums. Schumpeter: Khaki capitalism 2011-12-01T16:06:02Z When all unnecessary furniture and all hangings and bric-a-brac have been removed, and the old paper stripped from the walls, the walls should be whitewashed, or covered with washable paper, or painted. Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2011-11-25T03:00:11.053Z China closets in first L. flat containing bric-a-brac. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z The small, rectangular dining room suggests its theme through scattered bric-a-brac rather than a grand design scheme. Restaurant Review: Rouge et Blanc ? NYC ? Restaurant Review 2011-11-09T03:00:15Z They could add rugs, bric-a-brac, and different luxurious chairs, at any time. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z On the mantelpiece there are some bric-a-brac and among them a beautifully made model of a sailing ship. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z The table is littered with papers, books, weapons, bric-a-brac. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z But it is also a testament to the nostalgic power of even the most pedestrian bric-a-brac of New York. City Room: For $1,600, a ?Don?t Walk? Signal 2011-06-20T16:18:05Z He has touched the fragile bric-a-brac of tradition with the feather duster of investigation. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The mantel was loaded with bric-a-brac of all sorts. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z An active branch of business here is the sale of curios, antique silverware, china, gold, jewels, and bric-a-brac; in fact ancient articles of every description. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Mary absorbed all the surroundings of the owner's past life; every picture, every book and bit of bric-a-brac, all were parts of him and full of interest. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Profusely scattered about were pieces of odd furniture, strange bric-a-brac, curious pottery and miniature idols, relics collected from every quarter of the globe. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Around her lay water-stained family photographs, and pieces of family bric-a-brac, and the three brick pillars that once supported the porch roof, still missing. This Land: Losing Everything, Except What Really Matters 2011-04-30T17:04:42Z They contain evidence of long and careful work in the hot-houses of the 'Jardin des Plantes,' and in front of the old bric-a-brac dealer's stalls, which used to stand about the entrance to the Louvre. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z On either side of the mantel, shoulder high, and projecting out a little from the wall, were what appeared to be bric-a-brac, or, perhaps, liqueur cupboards, with leaded glass doors. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z In all these rooms spacious effects were not lessened by bric-a-brac and collections. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Avant-garde designer Philippe Starck dreamed up all the rooms, hung countless chandeliers from the ceilings and filled the grand foyer with Gallic bric-a-brac that includes carefully placed Proust novels. What's Behind the Paris Hotel Wars? 2011-04-03T06:15:00Z In the dining room built-in cabinets holding sherry glasses, historical plates and other bric-a-brac frame a 50’s-era dining table and Victorian-style chairs. Habitats: A Queens Home Wallpapered With Memories 2011-04-02T12:06:03Z I had plenty of fine bedding, and table damask, china and plate, some favorite books, and bits of bric-a-brac, a few pictures and rugs, and a good deal of Berlin wool work, and fancy needlework. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z A home that was a museum of old books, rare books, Indian relics, dramatic souvenirs and bric-a-brac indescribable, but each piece with a history. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z It was at the sale yesterday, in a Montgomery Street auction-room, of the personal effects, jewelry, silverware, and household bric-a-brac of a once very wealthy San Francisco family. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Murray must be able to converse through megaphones and casually fiddle with odd bric-a-brac, like a hula-girl statue with lighted breasts that blink on and off. | New Jersey: ?A Thousand Clowns,? but Just One Oddball 2011-02-12T04:27:02Z It's simply buried under devotee bric-a-brac this morning. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z She appeared to be very busy examining the collection of bric-a-brac and curiosities. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z The sculptors made for them many charming pieces of bric-a-brac. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Camden Town Suggs's 1995 track is a homage to his favourite part of London where "you can do anything you want to" among the bric-a-brac and stalls of its famous open-air market. London hit songs mapped 2011-01-08T00:13:48Z Avoid over-crowding the rooms with furniture and cluttering with too many pictures and useless and inartistic bric-a-brac, and dust-collectors. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The floor in every direction lay cluttered deep with books and pictures and clothes and innumerable small bits of bric-a-brac. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z The building proved to be a typical second-hand store with old tables and chairs piled in the windows along with cut glass and bric-a-brac. The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z It was a tedious task, for the large rooms were crowded with massive pieces, bric-a-brac, and upon each wall hung countless numbers of paintings and portraits in heavy frames. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z Professionally run charity shops help bridge the funding gap as government spending cuts bite One of its outlets sells second-hand furniture, another is a bric-a-brac store. Charitable business 2010-12-19T17:38:18Z While most wrestlers peddle bric-a-brac, like action figures an masks, to supplement their ring income, only Abdullah would think of marketing the fork with which he jabs his foe. Abdullah the Butcher Sustains a Wrestling Career 2010-07-26T05:56:00Z "A pity the storms have not demolished this bric-a-brac," thought Leo, as he rubbed the lump on his forehead with a pained smile. The Undying Past Unless you’re afraid Skully may return and mar your pleasure, you may sit on the bench with us and watch him toy with the local bric-a-brac. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Above it was a tall mantel, with some chaste bric-a-brac, and above this the picture of a man of unusually fine appearance. The Man from Jericho All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away. The Salvaging Of Civilisation I saw the shop, filled to overflowing with bric-a-brac, the light of the single gas-lamp reflected in a hundred varieties of brass and pottery work. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance He sells his bric-a-brac, his pictures, his furniture. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse That mantel needs ornamental bric-a-brac and objets d’art——” Lee turned to escape, but her brother cornered and caught her, and swung her high, seating her beside his indignant mother. The Moonlit Way He annoyed his hostess exceedingly by moving about the room, appearing to examine books, bric-a-brac and objects of furniture. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery Most people open up their drawing-rooms at once, and parade their bric-a-brac. Love's Usuries A man's den that is a den, and not a bric-a-brac shop masquerading under the name, a good pipe, good tobacco, and good company. The King of Arcadia It was the morning before “the Ball,” and Mrs. Filmer was busy about the packing of some valuable bric-a-brac, which was to be taken with them to the city. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance I seem to hear her speak; and back Where lies the sun on books and piles Of porcelain and bric-a-brac, A tall clock ticks above the tiles, Where Love's framed profile smiles. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Other countries can sell us automobiles and bric-a-brac. The Romance of the Reaper She went to sleep in a little entresol underneath the bric-a-brac stores which Monsieur de Blancmesnil had recently bought for her in this same Rue de Courcelles. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Chivalric ideals were regarded as mediæval bric-a-brac and fine sentiments as rubbish. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern It was full of flowers and bric-a-brac, but there was not a book to be seen. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance On one bed sat two girls, two others were hanging pictures and spreading bric-a-brac on brackets and shelves. Helen Grant's Schooldays To lovers of the curious the books still appeal, and they will continue to hold an honorable place among the bric-a-brac of literature. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Its two rooms were crammed with a bizarre assortment of furniture, bric-a-brac and souvenirs. Know Thy Neighbor A made-up woman is like paste jewelry and imitation bric-a-brac. The Widow To Say Nothing of the Man It lay in pieces on the floor of the sitting-room, covered with a litter of broken bric-a-brac and mortar and bricks from the chimney. Happy House Again I hear her speak and back, Where steals the showery sunlight, piles A whatnot dainty bric-a-brac Beside a tall clock; each glazed tile's Blue-patterned profile smiles. Days and Dreams Poems “Hot towel!” cried Rollo, to Jonas’s amazement, and running violently about the room to the grave danger of the dainty bric-a-brac which stood on the marble-topped table. Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth There were pieces of broken furniture and bric-a-brac strewn over the floor. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor The bit of bric-a-brac looked quite nice, but as it was but imitation marble, it was not worth more than two dollars, if as much. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone From other friends came pictures, silver and bric-a-brac without limit. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years There were days when the minds of mother and daughter were too full of sorrow and anxiety to occupy themselves with upholstery and bric-a-brac. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Bottles and jugs and fruits, books and bric-a-brac; all sorts of things lend themselves readily and interestingly to this use. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors This stand was filled with various articles of bric-a-brac, and it went down with a crash, carrying dozens of small articles with it. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields Thus started, the bit of bric-a-brac traveled from one hand to another until it reached a heavy-set man with red mustache, who stood but a couple of yards from the doorway. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone The wandering eyes have caressed the bric-a-brac over and over. In the Heart of a Fool Upstairs Sally was sitting on a couch, in the midst of the scattered furniture, while George Bolingbroke stood looking ruefully at a pile of silver and bric-a-brac that filled the centre of the floor. The Romance of a Plain Man She had heard much of those rooms, of the multitude of books that he had put into them, of the bric-a-brac with which he had rendered them homelike and beautiful. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs Then Glutts and his relatives had paid for the damage done to the bric-a-brac stand, a damage amounting to nearly a hundred dollars. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields As he finished, he thrust the piece of bric-a-brac toward a young lady who had just entered. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone There is, also, other bric-a-brac which has accumulated since I was born there. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) They entered the little musty and dusty parlor, with its old haircloth furniture and its cheap bric-a-brac. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy It was not the bare room it once was; the girl's deft hands had decorated it with cheap but dainty muslin curtains, pictures, and bric-a-brac. 'Lizbeth of the Dale What Bill Glutts had said about being pushed into the broken bric-a-brac was true. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields The cost price of that piece of bric-a-brac was ten dollars, but I’ll throw off two dollars and call it eight.” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone The money others spent in filling their homes with bric-a-brac she spent in books, and the result proves the superior wisdom of her course. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I was in town, and I went to that bric-a-brac shop. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 The orders for206 properties include all furniture, rugs, bric-a-brac, draperies, and everything else that serves to dress the stage or the performers. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Hideous, too, were the electric fixtures, the gas-log in the old-time fireplace, and the bargain counter bric-a-brac geometrically spaced upon the handsome old mantel. Athalie “I have proof that you let the piece of bric-a-brac fall.” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone An old second-hand cabinet may be bought at a trifle, and when polished up may be set in a corner on which to display some pieces of bric-a-brac. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Well, I’m glad they didn’t smash all the china and bric-a-brac, for they’re mortal homely, and I should certainly begrudge the money it would take to replace them.” Patty's Summer Days And I’m going to give her one or two beautiful, fine handkerchiefs in boxes, and two or three lovely books, and two or three pieces of bric-a-brac, and a Japanese ivory carving. Patty's Social Season A yellow polished dresser was filled with grotesque porcelain, greenish pitchers, colored bric-a-brac, wineglasses with monograms, and flower-painted teacups standing on high legs. The Comedienne “It was not altogether on account of the broken piece of bric-a-brac,” went on Andrew Dilks. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone These houses are as quaint in their antique interiors as a bric-a-brac cabinet. Duffels And speaking of bric-a-brac, she felt that every lady should learn to economize, by occasionally serving a picked up dinner, of bric-a-brac that would otherwise be wasted. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 "Spending his money on bric-a-brac like that—and that's not all!" he said indignantly. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World It was a home of luxury, evidenced by the rich carpets, elegant pieces of furniture, paintings of well-known artists and beautiful bric-a-brac in an expensive cabinet. Twenty Years of Hus'ling “I want to see you about that piece of bric-a-brac you broke at the auction store up on Nausau street.” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone Then he saw the weird little glass statuette among the usual bric-a-brac. The Perfectionists She elaborated considerably on the study of Norwegian literature, ceramics, bric-a-brac and so forth, and asked for an expression of the ladies present. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 Here he succeeded in getting a situation with a dealer in bric-a-brac, rare books and antiquities. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Place a number of articles such as pillows, books, handkerchiefs, inexpensive bric-a-brac, etc., on the floor. Games For All Occasions While Matt was making these sales Andy was busy showing off the merits of several articles of bric-a-brac which a bevy of ladies were admiring. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone "Oh—you mean all this junk?" with a comprehensive hand wave that included Dutch clock, Dutch warming pans, Dutch bric-a-brac, and Dutch furniture. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Such large social parties were always an event, and no one refused an invitation to Mrs. Hayden's, for it always meant beautiful rooms, carpets, pictures and bric-a-brac, superb refreshments, and a splendid time generally. The Right Knock A Story Buregarde leaped for the second man's gun hand and closed on it as the hurled box opened and scatter-shotted his face with bric-a-brac. History Repeats Such vases and card receivers—indeed, all the pretty bric-a-brac, as we should term it nowadays. A Little Girl in Old New York They might have done the same thing had they chosen jewelry, bric-a-brac, rugs, paintings, stocks, bonds, or anything else as the subject for their exploitation. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing And it is even now serving as a model upon which our entire public-school system will yet be founded—a system that works not for culture, for bric-a-brac purposes, but for character and competence. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen I knew that Anselo rarely entered any houses save ale-houses, and that he had probably never before been in a study full of books, arms, and bric-a-brac. The Gypsies When she had gotten rid of some furniture and bric-a-brac whose style or color irritated her, she found herself in a sympathetic atmosphere, surrounded, as always, by a harmonious and sophisticated richness. Sacrifice Old Bullion has a stack of rich things in his shack; of Persian rugs and antique jugs and costly bric-a-brac. Rippling Rhymes Mementoes, bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or cosy lounge, upholsteries, pictures, and a thousand things that accrete in a home are discarded or neglected because there is no homestead in which to arrange them. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Every householder on the coast will buy himself a gun and wait for a chance to shoot some misguided stranger he finds collecting bric-a-brac in the dark watches of the night. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The gypsies of Wales are to those of England what the Welsh themselves are to the English; more antique and quaint, therefore to a collector of human bric-a-brac more curious. The Gypsies One's spiritual bric-a-brac must be taken down and dusted with just as careful reverence as one shows the glass things on one's mantel. The Brentons Then his glance wandered about the room, over the bookcases, the bric-a-brac on the mantel, the—— He sat up in his chair rather suddenly. Every Man for Himself A miniature Santa Claus, a pasteboard monkey, and several other articles of bric-a-brac of the kind the tenement affords, complete the outfit. Children of the Tenements On the mantelpiece were arranged photographs of actors and actresses and pieces of cheap bric-a-brac. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Horace Walpole was a virtuoso in Gothic art, and in his castle, at Strawberry Hill, he made a collection of ancient armor, illuminated MSS., and bric-a-brac of all kinds. Brief History of English and American Literature However that may be, it was considered a rare bit of bric-a-brac in Siminol, and the possessor was counted a most fortunate man among his fellows. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Bob stopped first, though not on account of Nita’s bric-a-brac or a possible visit from Mrs. Kent. Betty Wales Senior The "home" does not consist in the furniture, the rooms, the bric-a-brac, or the curtains. The Mother and Her Child The parlors of some of these dames were exquisitely furnished with works of art and bric-a-brac, donated by admirers. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis There wasn't a cool space to hang your eye on anywhere on the walls; you had to make your way through the furniture and bric-a-brac as through traffic. Jane Journeys On Thin men will devote themselves to obelisks, church spires, factory chimneys, and artistic bric-a-brac. Here are Ladies "Never mind," said Constance White, "how desolate the home furnishings would be without lovely bric-a-brac." How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl Everything about her bespoke unlimited wealth, while the most perfect taste was displayed in the harmonizing tints of everything, the costly pictures, statuettes, bric-a-brac, and curios. His Heart's Queen To enable them to do their work well, they have pleasant parlors, with works of art and bric-a-brac donated by admirers. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Gradually, articles of furniture disappeared from their accustomed places; costly pieces of bric-a-brac, rare old china, everything of value which Cecile thought her mother would not be likely to miss. The Alchemist's Secret This was several days after they had purchased their bric-a-brac and meanwhile they had seen Ikey and Hashmi going about getting other students into their toils. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Her floors were carpeted with velvet rugs, her walls hung with golden cloth, and her tables loaded with costly bric-a-brac. The Age of the Reformation While Fay was turning over her little bric-a-brac assortment of feelings, her toy renunciations, her imitation convictions, Michael was slowly making the great renunciation without even taking himself into his confidence. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron The bedroom was in extreme disorder with clothing, shoes, bric-a-brac, and just plain junk scattered about. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 He found her halfway up the staircase with one of the shallow bric-a-brac cabinets open before her. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town There was heaviness and stuffiness, and all the bric-a-brac was fat and puffy, and all the pictures were highly-colored, with the women in them blonde and buxom, and the men blond and bold—. The Tin Soldier A quaint piece of bric-a-brac that was a misfit in the city apartment may look just right on the corner of the living room mantel in your country home. If You're Going to Live in the Country In furnishing a house we do not fill it up with miscellaneous furniture, bric-a-brac and antiques, gathered promiscuously, but we plan everything with a view to harmony, beauty, and utility. Talks on Talking They are just the thing for dusting the polished surface of the piano, ornaments and fine china and glass and bric-a-brac. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Amy had been a shopper who simply could not resist pretty things, and so her apartment was crowded with furniture and bric-a-brac. His Second Wife Day before yesterday he was about as useless a lookin' piece of bric-a-brac as ever draw'd breath—an' look at him now! The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country There were fans upon the wall, and much bric-a-brac of Oriental shape but Brummagem finish, a complete suite of drawing-room furniture, incandescent lights of fierce brilliancy, and a pianola. A Prince of Sinners The room in which the ceremony was to take place was the ordinary cottage parlor, with crochet work on the chairs, and a profusion of vases and bric-a-brac on the tables. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Cut glass, silver, bric-a-brac, napery, books, pictures, fans, rugs, clocks, handsome chairs and tables, are things that may be chosen with propriety. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The drawing-rooms were crowded with bric-a-brac and monuments of the upholsterer's ingenuity. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) All dusters should be hemmed, otherwise the ravelings are apt to catch and pull down the bric-a-brac. The Complete Home All other things seemed less urgent, and a letter from Harry full of small worries about pictures and bric-a-brac was almost an irritation. The Measure of a Man At the present rate of progress there is not more than a year's purchase of bric-a-brac left in the empire. The Bread-winners A Social Study This present scribe dreams architecture and bric-a-brac finer than any he ever saw, or than any ever made. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 "I hope my room-mate will prove as congenial as you two," she said, after listening half an hour to their laughing repartee and their ridiculous discussions as to the arrangement of their pictures and bric-a-brac. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware Don't give the servant's room the look of a perpetual rummage sale by making it a dumping ground for old defaced pictures, furniture, and bric-a-brac. The Complete Home In a confused way she noticed mirrors and statuary and portraits, handsome old furniture and rare pieces of bric-a-brac; but one thing caught her attention so that she stood a moment in round-eyed admiration. The Little Colonel's House Party They shall dispense an esthetic gospel and accumulate ancient bric-a-brac to their hearts' content. The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure She studied all the pictures, drew out all the drawers, examined the furniture and bric-a-brac, and then she looked at her watch. New Faces Exquisite pictures, wonderful bric-a-brac treasures, inlaid tables and cabinets, richest carpets and curtains, and chairs that were like ivory touched up with gold, made the room a miracle of beauty. The Baronet's Bride The preparation of the drawing-room for sweeping is more elaborate, containing, as it does, more pieces of furniture and bric-a-brac to be cared for. The Complete Home Her room is one of the best and filled with books and bric-a-brac. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Such was his haste that he ran against a table containing fine porcelain bric-a-brac, which, of course, was shattered. Beethoven It was furnished in truly German style, with quaint old-fashioned mantels, holding old pieces of bric-a-brac, and quaint dishes and cabinets hanging on the walls. Elsie at the World's Fair Vaughan of New York was entered and valuable wines and bric-a-brac removed. The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story Dining-room bric-a-brac generally consists of whatever occupies the plate rail—an interesting array of plates, pitchers, bowls, jars, cups and saucers, steins, cider mugs, and tankards. The Complete Home If so, here was another world waiting to be shattered—a world of silks and toys and pretty uniforms and tiny bric-a-brac—a sort of doll's house inhabited by angels at play. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Its very size makes it tremendously important, and if you load it with senseless fringed scarfs and bric-a-brac you make it the ugliest thing in your room. The House in Good Taste Luxury and bric-a-brac come to easy natures or in easy years. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 She had grown up in an atmosphere of perpetual bric-a-brac; she had seen the big Florentine shops; she could imagine what it was like. The Mating of Lydia His notions of art are liable to express themselves in pipes, steins, and other masculine bric-a-brac; but whatever his wills and wonts on the furnishing question, his room must show care and attention. The Complete Home And before his sister could say anything, he had walked over to a table covered with various bric-a-brac, where, taking up a fine Nankin vase, he looked closely at the marks on its base. Harvest How many rooms have I not cleared of junk—this heterogeneous mass of ornamental "period" furniture and bric-a-brac bought to make a room "look cozy." The House in Good Taste White Pigeon said they were bric-a-brac—that the Attic Philosophers rolled themselves up in the rugs on the floor when they wished to sleep; but I have thought since that White Pigeon was chaffing me. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women He was so nearsighted that he fell over chairs in drawing-rooms, and so awkward that his long arms occasionally brushed the bric-a-brac from mantels. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Where are the polished surfaces of the cultured studio worker; where the bric-a-brac which we inseparably connect with pseudo-Spanish art? Promenades of an Impressionist The arrangement showed the 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. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission The home of Lewis Tappan was invaded by a mob, and furniture, books, and bric-a-brac were carried to the street and there burned to ashes. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights I attempt no description of that magnificent room, its treasures of art, its statues, pictures, flowers, its wonders of bric-a-brac. Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 There were carpets, rugs, and curtains in great profusion, and a bewildering array of all sorts of bric-a-brac. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Fortuny was a gay master of character and comedy as well as of bric-a-brac. Promenades of an Impressionist Field was represented surrounded by "a museum of old books, rare books, Indian relics, dramatic souvenirs, and bric-a-brac indescribable." Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 A matting covered the floor, candlesticks rested on the chimney-piece, and there was no meaningless bric-a-brac, nor other objects of suspected beauty to distract attention. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Their work went into first-class Chinese bric-a-brac stores and into the jewelry stores of the merchants who supply the rich and cultured with their ornaments. By the Golden Gate 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. Reveries of a Schoolmaster It is not all bric-a-brac and moonlight and chivalric tinpot helmets. Promenades of an Impressionist At times he entered the bric-a-brac shops, and made a purchase of some piece of old furniture or tapestry. Robert Browning The child must be watched momentarily, lest it fall out of the window, search out a sharp knife, swallow poison, or do some irreparable damage to the bric-a-brac. Quit Your Worrying! I was so happy I went over to the mantel and began to bite the bric-a-brac. Back to the Woods My feeling was that he was a little mixed in his notions about bric-a-brac, but that he really had a grievance. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot A Scottish woman, who was spending her holidays in London, entered a bric-a-brac shop, in search of something odd to take home to Scotland with her. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Everything there, books, bric-a-brac and furniture, had an individual charm for him. Against the Grain I never before saw such queer carvings, such freakish pottery, such weird and utterly impossible bric-a-brac. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator The effulgent gleam cast from these myriad flames upon polished woods, busts, statues, unique bric-a-brac, gildings, glass and ruby velvet produced the perfection of old-time splendour. Mistress Penwick She's filled my house with the wildest mess of bric-a-brac and such stuff you ever came across outside of a museum of natural curiosities. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Use no heavy draperies, and have no excess of ornament and bric-a-brac to catch dust and germs. Science in the Kitchen. We met weekly in the church vestry which was soon decorated by handsome pictures, scenery and bric-a-brac, the gifts of our members, making a very spacious and attractive resort. The Gentleman from Everywhere It was a large, square place, and, as Miss Vale had said, literally stuffed with odd carvings, pottery of a most freakish sort, and weird bric-a-brac. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator If most housekeepers could get rid of one-half their clothes and furniture and put their bric-a-brac in the town museum, life would be simplified and they would begin to know what leisure means. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 The subject of the mania for collecting bric-a-brac came up; and after an expression of opinion from me respecting the matter, Mr. Potts told the story of his wife's fondness for that kind of thing. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Gilbert went into the room at the end of the shop—a small dark parlour, more crowded with a heterogeneous collection of plate, pictures, and bric-a-brac of all kinds than the shop itself. Fenton's Quest Horace Walpole was a virtuoso in Gothic art, and in his castle at Strawberry Hill he made a collection of ancient armor, illuminated manuscripts, and bric-a-brac of all kinds. From Chaucer to Tennyson In storage in Virginia there are some very wonderful old mahogany and rosewood and rugs and bric-a-brac enough to furnish the house I am building. Her Father's Daughter The harp was still in the saloon, but there was a different grand piano with a painted lid and a metrostyle pianola, and an extraordinary quantity of artistic litter and bric-a-brac scattered about. Tono Bungay My wife is the most infatuated bric-a-brac hunter I ever heard of. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot It struck me as odd that a man so simple in his habits should have so sumptuous a taste in bric-a-brac. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Photographs fade, bric-a-brac gets lost, busts of Wagner get broken, but once you absorb a Bayreuth-restaurant meal it is your possession and your property until the time comes to embalm the rest of you. What Is Man? and Other Essays There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation A half-rolled palimpsest lay in the centre, and around it were many quaint articles of bric-a-brac. Tales of Terror and Mystery The episode of the night in the bric-a-brac shop introduces a wholly new and confusing train of thought; therefore, charming as it is, it must be omitted. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Likewise the cowboy takes reasonable care that his bullets do not land in some one's anatomy nor in too expensive bric-a-brac. The Mountains Among the bric-a-brac of my heart I still cherish some of those little slips of paper with which we made international love—question and answer. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance You might pick up a good many odd pieces of bric-a-brac, around here, if you chose to strike a match and investigate. The Magic Egg and Other Stories The same artifice was used with paintings, said to be by great masters, and with imitations of old stuffs and bric-a-brac, which the ignorant and arrogant invaders pretended to appreciate and collect. Worldly Ways and Byways She had not meant to drive a marriage bargain, and yet—to have placed a pupil upon even such a bric-a-brac throne as that of Wolfburgh! Frances Waldeaux Thus Hedrick, in his studio, surrounded by his own loved bric-a-brac, began to feel once more the stir of impulse. The Flirt Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount. The Reef He abhorred cluttered bric-a-brac and meaningless objets d'art. The Octopus : A story of California He has been here only three months, and in that time he has destroyed nearly every piece of bric-a-brac in the institution—not, by the way, a great loss to art. Dear Enemy There was no enviable bric-a-brac, with its provoking legend of cheapness, in the room in which I had seen her. The Aspern Papers Acton talked a great deal about his chinoiseries; he knew a good deal about porcelain and bric-a-brac. The Europeans 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. The American "With your chocolates and olives, and your clutter of bric-a-brac?" The Rise of Silas Lapham By way of bric-a-brac, he has a stuffed pelican and a crane with a frog in its mouth, also a raccoon sitting on a log, and a varnished tarpon. Dear Enemy "Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-a-brac, but likable." Middlemarch You produce on me no effect with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-a-brac. Les Misérables It WAS the parlor—a room of sofas, pianos, big easy-chairs, and luxurious bric-a-brac. The Damnation of Theron Ware The seaside house is decorated with telco decals, chunks of driftwood, and the basic bric-a-brac of a hippie crash-pad. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Not far from the window nearest to the spectator there is an old chest of drawers covered by a lace scarf upon which are to be seen glasses, bric-a-brac and family mementos of various kinds. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II When the child cries for the moon, you try to get him interested in a jack-in-the-box; and when he wants a fragile piece of bric-a-brac— you try to substitute for it a tin whistle. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow So saying, she told Yuan Yang to go and fetch several bric-a-brac. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The bric-a-brac shops at Marseilles were another terrible cause of temptation, and one to which Balzac apparently succumbed without a struggle, consoling himself with the reflection that his purchases were "de vraies occasions a saisir." Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings He was thinking too much of his pictures and coins and eternal bric-a-brac for that. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 The superb exhibits in works of art, bric-a-brac, and other exquisite manufactures brought to view by this nation, evinced an eminent talent and great ingenuity. By Water to the Columbian Exposition She fancied herself walking down that mart of bric-a-brac arm-in-arm with her lover, intent on "picking up." Birds of Prey Of course, she does confer her benefits on them, but this is at stated times and fixed periods, and they merely consist of a few coloured satins, antiquities, and bric-a-brac. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books In 1846 and 1847, his letters are instinct with the passion of the confirmed collector, who has no thought beyond his bric-a-brac. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings And the Japanese furniture shop and—another photographer—and here's the bill for bric-a-brac—that's sixteen. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day The pottery of the Pueblo Indians, being naive and primitive in design, is much more intimate and therefore appropriate than the Japanese bric-a-brac which it replaces. Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife My lady shivered and looked round at the bright collection of bric-a-brac, as if the Sevres and bronze, the buhl and ormolu, had been the moldering adornments of some ruined castle. Lady Audley's Secret They found them in all sorts of places,—tucked in behind curtains, under sofa-pillows, between books, and round among the bric-a-brac on mantels and tables. Marjorie's New Friend What would that do amid astral and bric-a-brac and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of Browning and Longfellow and art? Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy It did not matter much who the guests were, provided that they filled the diminutive room in those spaces left vacant by bric-a-brac and furniture of the spindle-legged description. From One Generation to Another All these vast rooms, twenty and four-and-twenty feet high, have admirable carved or painted ceilings, bare walls, a few of them decorated with frescoes, and incongruous furniture, superb pier tables mingling with modern /bric-a-brac/. The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 The clubs meet in richly furnished parlors, of which the chief fault is usually an over-abundance of bric-a-brac. The Philistines You rascally children!" he cried; "if you haven't stuck papers on all the vases and bric-a-brac in the room! Marjorie's New Friend 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. Things Mother Used to Make There were beautiful pictures on the walls, and costly vases and bric-a-brac all about, and it all showed such kind thought on the part of somebody, that Patty's heart was touched. Patty Fairfield There are fine statues and splendid paintings, and bric-a-brac enough to deceive anyone into believing it to be the home of a bevy of girls. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense In keeping with these were the furniture and bric-a-brac. The Water Ghost and Others There were other little articles of virtu and bric-a-brac till you couldn't rest, but these were all that I could see thoroughly before he returned from the wash-room. Remarks Replace furniture, bric-a-brac and draperies and your room will be sweet and clean. Things Mother Used to Make The furniture and bric-a-brac were all removed from the hall and drawing-room and library, and carried up to the third floor to be out of the way. Patty Fairfield "Is she afraid for her bric-a-brac or her spoons?" he wondered. Under the Skylights She led him into a spacious room cluttered with lambrequins, stringy portieres, grilles, scroll-work, bric-a-brac…. Bertram Cope's Year Behind his sing-song of patter as he knocks down a piece of useless bric-a-brac he must be able to remain cool, remain calculating, remain like a hawk prepared to pounce upon his prey. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The doors were ornamented with mirrors, and Japanese bric-a-brac covered the shelves and the mantelpiece, on which stood a bust of Hassler. Jean-Christophe, Volume I There were several large easy chairs, and an old haircloth sofa; there were small tables, and bookcases, and a cabinet filled with bric-a-brac, but,—and Patty could scarcely believe her eyes,—there was no bed! Patty Fairfield He had the artistic endowment in an unusual degree; it was all one to him, whether he modelled in clay, or carved in wood, or stone, or built a house, or restored old bric-a-brac. In and out of Three Normady Inns Seeing that the butcher was a fragile piece of bric-a-brac, and that I might need him for future study, I bethought me of the banker down the street. Crooked Trails These were a jumble of bric-a-brac, old furniture of doubtful value, stained prints, and one or two blackened oil paintings in tarnished frames. The Nest Builder This couple had come from their birth-place only a year or so ago, and had brought all their wedding presents to their new home—pictures and bric-a-brac and linen. King Coal : a Novel I saw him last night at Vauxhall in company with young Moss, whose father does bills and keeps the bric-a-brac shop in Wardour Street. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family In deep burnished brass bowls lay water-cresses; in Caen dishes of an age to make a bric-a-brac collector turn green with envy, a Béarnaise sauce was being beaten by another gallic master-hand. In and out of Three Normady Inns And she felt as if she was willing to be a whole row of parlor bric-a-brac, she was so meek and so tired and unhappy. The Wishing-Ring Man This brother had just written him, describing the millionaires who bought his pictures and bric-a-brac. The Nest Builder Berry got his banjo down from the wall, where Miss Swan allowed him to keep it as bric-a-brac, and began to tune it. The Minister's Charge Ramage did not collect bric-a-brac like other travellers; he collected knowledge of humanity and its institutions, such knowledge as inscriptions reveal. Alone But furniture, bric-a-brac and walls always must be good in line and color. How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration It is that of the bric-a-brac merchants, and the Lord only knows what queer oddities this kind of shop can display. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools They were not very serious productions, and might all be included under the head of bric-a-brac; but there was a-plenty of them. Cambridge Sketches I said I had been having a general jail-delivery at Camelot and among neighboring castles, and with her permission I would like to examine her collection, her bric-a-brac—that is to say, her prisoners. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Vaura now signified to the Italian her wish to purchase bric-a-brac to the extent of a golden goblet, beautiful in design and of early Roman handiwork. A Heart-Song of To-day Pictures and bric-a-brac are out of place in the hall. How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration To approach perfect conditions, bric-a-brac, needless hangings, and everything that might collect dust should be temporarily removed. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy The novel was groaning under the thraldom of realism; poetry, with one or two exceptions, was given up to bric-a-brac and metrical ingenuity. Young Lives Old chairs of divers patterns were mingled with odd tables and sideboards and sofas; there were also innumerable daubs 'ascribed' to old masters, and a wonderful display of Wardour-street bric-a-brac. With Zola in England At one of their dinners a Sir Richard and Lady Jones were invited; my friend did not see their entree, being seated in a deep recess with Lord Elton, admiring some rare gems in bric-a-brac. A Heart-Song of To-day Costly bric-a-brac, which Boss and the madam had purchased while traveling in foreign countries, was in great profusion. Thirty Years a Slave What did he want with that bud, I wonder? was it for food, or bric-a-brac, or a plaything for the babies? Children's Rights A book of nursery logic There is no elegance, but it is sweet and inviting, pretty draperies, pretty bric-a-brac, and pretty effect. Marguerite Verne On the mantel and tables were the same miscellaneous collection of bric-a-brac that characterized the parlor. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill "Then to the dusty shop of Pedro; to the rescue of some trifles in the matter of bric-a-brac." A Heart-Song of To-day When all was finished—pictures, bric-a-brac, statuary and flowers all in their places, Mrs. McGee was brought home. Thirty Years a Slave To the collection of first editions or the heaping together of bric-a-brac a man may sacrifice his financial security and the welfare of his family. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Some peanuts must be secretly hidden in out-of-the-way places—in bric-a-brac, etc. Entertainments for Home, Church and School I can only say in conclusion that there were also the bazars for sweetmeats, most delectable; for coffee, of which one never tastes the like out of Damascus; and every kind of bric-a-brac. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II Put away fine china or glass and bric-a-brac, if she is very ill, and you need space for necessary glasses or other articles. Making Good on Private Duty The bric-a-brac and pictures, the rugs and furniture, while not magnificent, were of the best, and many of them costly. Vicky Van I think we seemed to her like what you city people call bric-a-brac, but she was too much of a lady to let her curiosity become offensive. A Day of Fate Then it was that the race-genius produced most of that queer bric-a-brac which still forms the delight of Western collectors. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation They interested him not, neither did he love Professor Calame's scratchy pictures, nor the jumbled bric-a-brac of art and history. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story In one of the many straggling streets, almost hidden behind a few large shops of curious build, stood a small boutique full of ancient relics and jeweled bric-a-brac. Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express Yes, two centuries before the Christian Era, this piece of bric-a-brac, as we would call it, adorned the tomb of some Egyptian citizen. Two Little Women on a Holiday It is only the idea I always heard that Volterra kept a pawnshop in Florence, and then became a dealer in bric-a-brac, and afterwards a banker, and all sorts of things. The Heart of Rome For there is not a bit of true bric-a-brac in all Europe that does not know the names of the mighty masters. Bimbi The old jewel merchant's eye roved over the medley of priceless bric-a-brac in the main hall. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story There: rugs, ices, pictures, lanais, worldly books, sinful bric-a-brac fetched from everywhere. Following the Equator — Part 1 Here are some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac hunter: Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 And it was no wonder it was famous, for such a collection of Oriental furniture, bric-a-brac, and objects of art never was seen outside of a museum. Short Stories for English Courses "That is what is so terrible in these bric-a-brac places," said the princess of Meissen. Bimbi Strangest of all, perhaps, was Broughton, who spent his old age haunting every sale of old pictures and bric-a-brac. Through the Magic Door The parlor had beautiful and elaborate furniture, rugs, pictures, bric-a-brac, and even lace curtains at the windows. Marjorie's Vacation She put away some books and some bits of choice bric-a-brac, and then went out to interview the cook. Patty's Butterfly Days I like Chinese bric-a-brac, but my interest in China ends there. Short Stories for English Courses August awoke with a great start, and found himself lying on the bare bricks of the floor of the chamber, and all the bric-a-brac was lying quite still all around. Bimbi The success of Masie's banquet room had established him at once among bric-a-brac dealers as a competitor quite out of the ordinary. Felix O'Day It fell upon a small table, whose load of vases and bric-a-brac was totally wrecked. Marjorie's Vacation Over and over they rolled, breaking furniture, overturning and smashing bric-a-brac. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" With so much bric-a-brac and other large articles about, it did not appear to be very difficult to conceal the boxes, which were perhaps four inches square on the ends and eight inches deep. The Dream Doctor For it greatly puzzled him why, when some of the bric-a-brac was all full of life and motion, some was quite still and had not a single thrill in it. Bimbi I could not help but note the rich furnishings of the place— the soft carpets, artistically papered walls, the costly pictures and bric-a-brac, all telling of wealth. True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place The accumulation of heavy furniture, wall decorations, and bric-a-brac which will characterize the dwellings of a later age, would be utterly offensive to an Athenian—contradicting all his ideas of harmony and "moderation." A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life At last the furniture began to go, then the plate, then ail the priceless bric-a-brac. Brewster's Millions Besides diamonds and precious stones by the score were gold and silver ornaments, silks, satins, laces, draperies, articles of virtu, plumes, even cutlery and bric-a-brac. The Dream Doctor "Bravo!" said all the real bric-a-brac in one breath, and the two Italian rapiers left off fighting to cry, "Begone!" Bimbi The bric-a-brac was thrown from the mantel and tables, and strewed the floor with broken china and glass. San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906 He collected all kinds of Oriental bric-a-brac, pictures and draperies. Angel Island Visionary as the courtesy was, the Holy Grail was as practical as any bric-a-brac that has survived of the time. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres I collect English friends, as others collect pictures, bric-a-brac, what you will. The Crown of Life Her friends were not always worthy of the chairs they sat in, and she overlooked in her associates defects she would not have tolerated in her bric-a-brac. The Descent of Man and Other Stories Still in Paris—buying bric-a-brac and making believe they're studying architecture and—But I'm not going to answer another question. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Their very emptiness made her strain to pack them with transient sensations: she was like the possessor of an unfurnished house, with random furniture and bric-a-brac perpetually pouring in "on approval." Tales of Men and Ghosts I don't collect bric-a-brac myself, and the British Museum is dreadfully overstocked. South Wind Victor came next with an armful of bric-a-brac, a brass candelabra and the parlor clock. American Fairy Tales Piles of gold and jewels were on all sides, and precious ornaments and splendid cloths, rare pieces of carved furniture, vases, bric-a-brac and the like, were strewn about the room in astonishing profusion. Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies A glowing fire and the light of an amber-shaded lamp showed as much fashionable upholstery and bric-a-brac as could be squeezed into the narrow space. In the Year of Jubilee But calamity had put her beside herself; she spoke, not in her own person, but as a woman whose carpets, curtains and bric-a-brac have ignominiously perished. The Paying Guest In selecting and ordering designs for the furniture, a strict adherence to archaic types had been observed; hence the couches, divans, chairs, and tables, the pottery and bric-a-brac, the mirrors and draperies, were severely classic. At the Mercy of Tiberius But Bernard lingered behind, apparently to admire the bric-a-brac on the cabinets. Arsene Lupin Meanwhile, he was amassing furniture and bric-a-brac, just as the bird bits of straw; and he implored her not to scold him. Balzac A score of gayly trimmed booths wherein were displayed various articles of feminine fallals and cheap bric-a-brac, each presided over by a lady house-smith. The Gates of Chance Then she dusted the parlour, including all the bric-a-brac, which made dusting here an engrossing occupation. Missy Had she not bronzes, and porcelains, and bric-a-brac, and objets d'art in profusion in her Roman villa, her Parisian hotel, her great, grim palace in Estremadura. Under Two Flags He moved about the room uneasily, fingering the bric-a-brac, glancing at the Duke and looking quickly away from him again. Arsene Lupin So there I set, face to face with that beautiful specimen of female bric-a-brac, and about two inches from a ten-horse-power cook stove in full blossom. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Among artists, bric-a-brac sellers, antiquarians, and men of letters he was known as a patron and man of taste. For the Term of His Natural Life When she entered Mrs. Mavering's room Alice first saw the pictures, the bric-a-brac, the flowers, the dazzle of lights, and then the invalid propped among her pillows, and vividly expectant of her. April Hopes The furniture, the paintings, and bric-a-brac were of the very best, chosen with care, here and abroad. Cap'n Warren's Wards I understand business, and I love art, pictures, a good bargain, bric-a-brac, fine tapestry. Arsene Lupin On this slab stood bits of china bric-a-brac, and what not, relics abandoned by the gallant and chivalrous Fraser for the bride and her house furnishing. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail The retired pair lived thus together, and spent in charity and bric-a-brac about a fourth of their mutual income. For the Term of His Natural Life "One may admire exquisite bric-a-brac without loving it." The Puppet Crown On his return to Marseilles on November 12, he invested in wonderful bargains in bric-a-brac, a favorite pursuit which eventually cost him a great deal in worry and time as well as much money. Women in the Life of Balzac And that, in brief, is how it came to be that this machine of antiquated pattern was added to the library bric-a-brac. The Enchanted Typewriter He knew a great deal, in an amateurish way, about pictures, books, bric-a-brac, and about society. The Golden House There were souvenirs of travel with a history, old bric-a-brac with a pedigree, but little or nothing that challenged attention for itself alone. The Twins of Table Mountain As she talked her eyes took in every article of furniture in the room, and every little piece of fancywork and bric-a-brac. Main-Travelled Roads The Blue Light does not consider that pharmacy is a thing of bric-a-brac, scent and ice-cream soda. The Four Million Everything in it looked bright and solid, but not new, and pictures, flower-stands, and articles of bric-a-brac were wholly absent. Youth The habit of spending insane sums of money in bric-a-brac, tall copies, binding, Elzevirs, &c.; Roundabout Papers She made a tour of the beautiful room where she had received him, singling out this treasure or that from the spoils of a hundred bric-a-brac shops, laughing over her quests, discoveries, and bargainings. Trent's Last Case To every bit of nautical bric-a-brac, pictures of old sailing ships and sea curios she gave especial prominence. Mary-'Gusta He drew near it; the room into which he gazed, full of bric-a-brac of exquisite choice, was Mlle. Samuel Brohl and Company To beguile one such afternoon when the rain set in early and walking was impossible, I found my way to the shop of an old dealer in bric-a-brac. Imaginary Portraits |
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