Nearby is a pile of concrete samples littering the floor beside the Mickey Mouse dolls and other bric-a-brac.

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And the new look, which mixes Baccarat with ready-to-wear and machine-washable bric-a-brac, offers recession-friendly shopping opportunities.

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Sri Lankan troops now sell religious bric-a-brac, run restaurants, collect refuse and build cricket stadiums.

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But Eli's selling more kind of random bric-a-brac, like corncobs and candle wax.

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Sample a sweet mango in the fruit and vegetable section then admire the quirky antiques and Raj-era bric-a-brac in Chor Bazaar.

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Hanwell watched Hanwell Snr struggle with the household bric-a-brac and shabby furniture piled up in the back of the van.

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It's through the entrance near 41st Street that I encounter the most bizarre but totally satisfying menagerie of NFL bric-a-brac.

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But in the bric-a-brac of daily life, we turn off our curiosity, often replacing it with the short-term, the obvious, the bone-numbingly mundane.

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Kern's main library was housed in the basement of the county courthouse in Bakersfield, in quarters so cramped that some of its materials were buried beneath old lighting fixtures, furniture, and other bric-a-brac.

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