Navone arranged everything nicely for me: I was to go by diligence on to Civita Vecchia, where I was to call on a relative of his, who kept a bric-a-brac shop.
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.
What Bill Glutts had said about being pushed into the broken bric-a-brac was true.
They soon found their way back to where the bric-a-brac stand had been smashed.
It was a coquettish little place, full of bric-à-brac and ornamented with works of art.
Still under the guidance of the author, he next inspected the other rare bric-à-brac that Mme.
Under the stimulus of this experience we went to a bric-à-brac shop and bought a lot of fascinating old pewter platters and flagons, and then we went recklessly shopping about in all directions.
But it was also unnaturally full by reason of Mr Gainsborough's habit of acquiring old furniture of no value, and new bric-à-brac whose worth could be expressed only by minus signs.
An old broken lantern which I have just seen at a bric-a-brac merchant's suggests a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race.
Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-a-brac from the grandfather to Cosette.
The wise hostess will see that all fragile bric-a-brac and expensive furniture is well out of the way before the children come.
Odd pieces of bric-a-brac and quaint, unusual gifts, and antiques are always acceptable.
They interested him not, neither did he love Professor Calame's scratchy pictures, nor the jumbled bric-a-brac of art and history.
The old jewel merchant's eye roved over the medley of priceless bric-a-brac in the main hall.
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.
While in prison a day and night awaiting trial, the vase was found in a pawnbroker's shop, and the colored porter of the bric-a-brac dealer acknowledged the theft.
She secured a position in a large bric-a-brac establishment, but when a valuable antique vase disappeared, she was suspected and arrested.
Oh, just shy some bric-a-brac at him and come home," said Desboro in disgust.
I tell the women that he is what I call a bric-er-brac man.
The warehouse of my bric-à-brac dealer was a veritable Capharnaum.
Now I understand why she always looks as if she had been stolen from a bric-a-brac shop," said Georges.
Subconsciously, most of us long to get rid of our bric-à-brac and then pull down the draperies that keep out the sunlight.
Do you know what is the most helpful thing you can have in your room, the article without which you cannot live in it at all, no matter how fine the rugs and bric-à-brac may be?
Besides, bric-à-brac not only gathers dust and breeds germs but also wearies the nerves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brac" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
