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Examples
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I tell the women that he is what I call a bric-er-brac man.
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I tell the women that he is what I call a bric-er-brac man.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Ginny swept her hand over a massive roll-top desk covered in bric-a-brac.
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There were trophies of hunting expeditions, some rare birds stuffed and mounted, looking so alive Hanny would not have been surprised if they had suddenly begun to warble; books in every stage of dilapidation, some of them quite rare copies, Ben found; portfolios of old engravings; curious weapons; foreign wraps; Grecian and Turkish bits of pottery; and the odd things we call bric-à-brac nowadays.
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March, when he had recovered his self-command a little in the presence of the agglomeration, comforted himself by calling the bric-a-brac
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March, when he had recovered his self-command a little in the presence of the agglomeration, comforted himself by calling the bric-a-brac
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March, when he had recovered his self-command a little in the presence of the agglomeration, comforted himself by calling the bric-a-brac
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I can only say in conclusion that there were also the bazaars for sweetmeats, most delectable; for coffee, of which one never tastes the like out of Damascus; and every kind of bric-à-brac.
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To the left of the ramp were low ebony tables covered with the kind of bric-a-bric that Susie Willinck had insisted on taking to California, only more expensive: silver opium pipes and skewers, delicate golden chains and fetters, cords of silk and velvet and plaited leather, a tiny cat-o'-nine-tails with minute gems glinting in its lashes, and a scattering of exquisitely-tinted pictures which they wouldn't have shown at the Royal Academy in a hurry.
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To the left of the ramp were low ebony tables covered with the kind of bric-a-bric that Susie Willinck had insisted on taking to California, only more expensive: silver opium pipes and skewers, delicate golden chains and fetters, cords of silk and velvet and plaited leather, a tiny cat-o'-nine-tails with minute gems glinting in its lashes, and a scattering of exquisitely-tinted pictures which they wouldn't have shown at the Royal Academy in a hurry.
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