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The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.

Chapter 1 2010

The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.

“SUCCESS” 2003

The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.

Chapter 1 1908

The really valuable bric-à-brac is costly here as elsewhere; but many charming things in common use among the people, pretty proofs of their universal love of beauty, are to be picked up for a mere trifle.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

The sentences Myers isolates are either accompanyed by no stylistic analysis at all, or are criticized for their denotative lapses, as defined by Myers's own schoolmarm-ish principles of "good English": characters do and say things that Myers finds objectionable, are described in terms he can't assimilate, objects and images are deemed inappropriate according to the most narrowly-focused notions of context ( "from the villagers 'perspective a less appropriate word than bric-a-brac is hard to imagine"), syntax ( "Johnson fills the space between purple passages by dropping his sentence subjects, leaving bursts of adjectives to stand alone") and word choice ( "As for snickering and creak, they will please only those who skim for startling word combinations").

Style in Fiction 2009

I had to backtrack in case I’d missed a white man peering through a window, because from the villagers’ perspective a less appropriate word than bric-a-brac is hard to imagine.

A Bright Shining Lie 2007

I had to backtrack in case I’d missed a white man peering through a window, because from the villagers’ perspective a less appropriate word than bric-a-brac is hard to imagine.

A Bright Shining Lie 2007

I would ask though, Gbob, if perhaps his collection of bric-a-brac, which is currently in Pittsburgh, might become incredibly valuable because in the ‘wave’ I would imagine of lot of unprotected materials documenting social/cultural history would have been badly damaged; whereas the Warhol collection , which is vast, has been stored properly.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Barnes and Noble Challenge. 2010

 You turn around and make your way back on paved bric a brac to civilization where there are no coyotes.

bric a brac road Henry Pelifian 2010

The road is paved with tons of bric a brac, but none is more paved than the one carved out of nature.

bric a brac road Henry Pelifian 2010