"Bric-a-brac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for a free-for-all fight. Del Mar and Smith leaped at the intruder. Over and over they rolled, breaking furniture, overturning and smashing bric-a-brac. ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... bordered by stately old Spanish mansions, many of them still occupied by their Castilian owners, the Yankee invaders wandered at will, brimful of curiosity and good nature, eager to gather in acquaintance, information, and bric-a-brac, making themselves perfectly at home, filling the souls of the late lords of the soil with disdain, and those of the natives with wonderment through their lavish, jovial, free and easy ways. Within a month from the time Merritt's little division had marched into the city, Manila was ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... French! I know. Among the bric-a-brac of my heart I still cherish some of those little slips of paper with which we made ...
— The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... through that?" asked Madeline, pointing to the miscellaneous assortment of books, papers, dance-cards and bric-a-brac that littered Betty's small desk to the point of ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... Hon. Slote will add much to the gaiety of nations. The distinctive articles of his attire were a red cravat, a coat of the vintage of '49, a tobacco-stained shirt-front and a whisp of oakum- colored chin beard. As a bit of bric-a-brac, or a curio from one of the oldest portions of the unhallowed west, he will be of value in the interior decoration of the Capitol, but it is to be feared that his oratorical vent has been choked up for ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
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