"I love
carpets. We didn't have any, only two little rugs that came in a missionary barrel, and one of those had ink spots on it.
Pollyanna
Sam was so very busy with his own thoughts, that it is probable he would have taken no more notice of the young woman than just raising his head and remarking that she had a very neat and pretty figure, if his feelings of gallantry had not been most strongly roused by observing that she had no one to help her, and that the carpets seemed too heavy for her single strength.
'you'll spile that wery pretty figure out o' all perportion if you shake them carpets by yourself.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
First, these holes in the
carpet, where the six bullets have gone in.
The Innocence Of Father Brown
He took the corner of the carpet in his hand and, turning it over, he showed that it was indeed as he said.
As he spoke he turned over another portion of the carpet, and there, sure enough, was a great crimson spill upon the square white facing of the old-fashioned floor.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Just look at that carpet, and see--was there ever anything like it in a Christian house before?
Once I told them that they should not taste their supper till they had picked up everything from the carpet; Fanny might have hers when she had taken up a certain quantity, Mary Ann when she had gathered twice as many, and Tom was to clear away the rest.
Agnes Grey
Then I heard again the still, small sound of something brushing its way over the carpet; traveling this time from my bed, and moving so rapidly that in a moment more it was lost in the silence of the night.
Accidentally looking downward while I was weighing these probabilities, I noticed a small black object on the carpet, lying just under the key, on the inner side of the door.
The Two Destinies
If there had not been that ladder under the window; if there had not been those footprints on the
carpet in the gallery; if there had not been that open window, I might have been led to think that this man had a right to be there, and that he was there as a matter of course and for reasons about which as yet I knew nothing.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-coloured panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulged in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.
There was a sharp cry--and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero.
Raven
"Nay, nay," said Aramis, coldly; "you will never make me believe there are any good rooms in the Bastile; and, as for your
carpets, they exist only in your imagination.
Ten Years Later
The beds downstairs are made of primrose silk--with hundreds of big pillows and cushions; there are thick, soft
carpets on the floors; the dishes are made of silver; and there are all sorts of good things to eat and drink--special things; the larder--well, it's just like a shop, that's all.
Story of Doctor Dolittle