The moss, so rich, deep, soft, and earthily fragrant, was a springy stair-carpet of a steep stairway. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
He fits right in, even with the stair-carpet: He is so bold and unafraid, and such a cuddly, soppy thing. From Wordnik.com. [2009 June « Barefoot in the Kitchen] Reference
"Confess, now," said I, looking at them, "have you not had secret designs on the hall - and stair-carpet?". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
I wasn't going to wait for a crowd, so I out with the stair-carpet and bowled it open all along the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Maigret brushed past the green plant that was sticking out of a huge china vase and once more felt the stair-carpet with the brass rods under his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
Throughout the interviews, the Dutch even the villain from PEA Force were unfailingly courteous, unrolling their faultless English like stair-carpet down each step of the enquiry. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
But she had reckoned without a loose nail in the stair-carpet, which, apparently resenting her hasty progress past it, had torn a yard of filmy ruching off her skirt before she realized what was happening. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
Joe the gardener still stopped, however, on the mat below in the passage, as nothing short of a peremptory command from the vicar would have constrained him to put his heavy clod-hopping boots on the soft stair-carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
Dark red is a very suitable color for the stair-carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference
"I tacked the pulpit stair-carpet," put in Oliver, gravely. From Wordnik.com. [On Christmas Day In The Evening] Reference
There were stairs certainly, but where was the stair-carpet?. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852] Reference
Before him was a narrow staircase, with a faded stair-carpet upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready] Reference
I want that white, and I've ordered a dark red stair-carpet to put down. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderers] Reference
The stair-carpet had not yet been laid down, and his foot had slipped at the uppermost step. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
Ragnhild, who made such use herself of the thick red stair-carpet and the keyholes everywhere!. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderers] Reference
Down went the piece of stair-carpet before noticed, and up ran Mrs. Tibbs 'to make herself tidy.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
THE only way of putting down a stair-carpet without getting mad is to take the stairs out in the yard. From Wordnik.com. [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference
Didn't Bert Abbott and the other boys go up and down on that stair-carpet till they nearly wore it out?. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Cousins] Reference
This might have been the result of a fall: it appeared that the stair-carpet was loosened at one point. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference
Meanwhile, 'the duty nearest hand' is to get on the stair-carpet that he may run up and down more softly. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
She did not look into his face as she asked this question, but stood with her eyes fixed on the stair-carpet. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
The same stair-carpet mounted between the same walls; the same old French print, in its narrow black frame, faced her on the landing. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Make stair-carpet longer than necessary, and change it so that it will not cover the steps in the same way each time of putting down. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference
This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
As she laid her hand on Olivier's bell, her breast throbbed with impatience, and the stair-carpet seemed the softest her feet ever had pressed. From Wordnik.com. [Strong as Death] Reference
An animal that can take down a whole dish-cloth at one gulp, and regret that it wasn't a roll of stair-carpet, is not to be told what it shall eat. From Wordnik.com. [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference
This was because she scrubbed the passage and door-step turn about with the wife of the downstairs family, and because the stair-carpet was her own. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
Mrs. Millar could not find it in her heart to refuse it, though the stair-carpet, the drawing-room rugs, and the garden-beds were all to be sacrificed. From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
He had edged his way to a seat from which he could command a view of the road stretching out like a long grey stair-carpet towards the dark trees on the ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Coroner's Pidgin]
He would not have known it, so utterly were the thing's steps deadened by the stair-carpet, if the baluster-rail, which he himself held in his hand, had not shaken slightly. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Stopper] Reference
My garden gate is off its hinges, the garden itself has the lawn inextricably mixed with the flower-beds, my marble step is cracked in three places, and my stair-carpet is caked with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914] Reference
Chinese paper-mache tea-caddy on the top of it; even with the carpet, certainly the most curious parlour carpet that ever was, being made of lengths of the stair-carpet sewn together side by side. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
My mother's been and sent the roll of stair-carpet to the jumble sale! ". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
I want that white, and I’ve ordered a dark red stair-carpet to put down. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
A candle, carefully examined the blue stair-carpet to see if he could find the marks of unusual feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Secrets] Reference
If you got a new entry - and stair-carpet, as I said, I should have to be at the expense of another staircase to get up to our bedroom. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
As she laid her hand on Olivier’s bell, her breast throbbed with impatience, and the stair-carpet seemed the softest her feet ever had pressed. From Wordnik.com. [Strong as Death] Reference
"But I must warn you, girls, that I have compromised to the utmost extent of my power, and that I intend to plant myself on the old stair-carpet in determined resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
He fits right in, even with the stair-carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome Home « Barefoot in the Kitchen] Reference
A nest under the stair-carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
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