One met plenty of people one knew in the streets, at the Patissiers, or at some of the bric-a-brac shops, where there were still bargains to be found in very old furniture, prints, and china.

Useless bric-a-brac is dispensed with.

Then, lest he had not left the room, she got a chair and carried it about, standing on it to examine the walls, and see if Barry was hidden among the pictures and bric-a-brac.

Why not send him overprowling, ye knowfingers the bric-a-brac, bloomin' ass, and breaks a sword-blade.

Costly bric-a-brac, which Boss and the madam had purchased while traveling in foreign countries, was in great profusion.

Pictures and bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of loving friends.

They are Cocks of shreds and patches, idle bric-a-brac, fit to figure in a catalogue, not in a barnyard with its decent dunghill and its dog.

But it was tacitly understood that there was nothing further to be said on that subject, and that the news of Myrtilla's life could hardly again take any more excitingly personal form than the bric-a-brac excitements of art or literature,though indeed art and literature were, to be just to them, far more than bric-a-brac in the life of Myrtilla Williamson.

They were sitting, after luncheon, in the low-ceilinged drawing-room to which Undine had adapted her usual background of cushions, bric-a-brac and flowerssince one must make one's setting "home-like," however little one's habits happened to correspond with that particular effect.

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.

" Ulysses was already in the street,and in the little hallway various objects of bric-a-brac that had obtruded themselves and confused the fugitive in his blind flight were still trembling and then falling and breaking on the floor with a crash.

Gilbert went into the room at the end of the shopa small dark parlour, more crowded with a heterogeneous collection of plate, pictures, and bric-a-brac of all kinds than the shop itself.

[Bradley, assisted by Perkins, removes the remaining furniture, placing the bric-a-brac on the floor.

Suppose you take the bric-a-brac out and put it where it will be safe.

He made a second call (equally ineffectual) upon the Great Portland Street dealer, and he resorted to advertisements in such periodicals as were lively to come into the hands of a bric-a-brac collector.

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.

His refined, artistic taste, shown in his city residence in paintings, statuary, and rare bric-a-brac, collected in his frequent travels in the Old World, displayed itself in his island home in the arrangement of an endless variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers, through which you caught glimpses of the Sound and distant shores.

Settlers should therefore take with them plenty of clothes, sufficient, say, to last for five years, including boots, blankets, linen, etc.; also bric-a-brac, and anything to add cheerfulness and refinement to the home, but they should not take furniture nor animals.

The bare interior does not engross one's attention like the innumerable pictures and bric-a-brac of a Western parlor; the presence of kakemono calls our attention more to grace of design than to beauty of color.

An ethical problem which we have been unable to solve is the fact that women who would never think of trusting the care of their fine china and bric-a-brac to unskilled hands, unhesitatingly intrust to persons who are almost wholly untrained, the preparation of their daily food.

Use no heavy draperies, and have no excess of ornament and bric-a-brac to catch dust and germs.

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.

I never before saw such queer carvings, such freakish pottery, such weird and utterly impossible bric-a-brac.

Everything there, books, bric-a-brac and furniture, had an individual charm for him.

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.