hearth-rug

• “I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.”

  Fictionaut: The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars

• “One boy, with a beard and a large white waistcoat, who stood straddling on the hearth-rug warming his coat-tails, WAS sent home.”

  A Holiday Romance

• “Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his schooner ‘The Beauty,’ in the China seas.”

  A Holiday Romance

• “Mr. Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth-rug and a West Surrey Gazette.”

  The Invisible Man

• “If I did, may I drop down dead at this moment on this hearth-rug!”

  The Virginians

• “The quaint figure of Faith, in her bonnet and cloak, was kneeling on the hearth-rug endeavouring to stir a dull fire into a bright one.”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “And the two women went trampling wildly upon the document and smothering it with a corner of the hearth-rug.”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “I had a cup of coffee and some cold ham, while he yarned away on the hearth-rug.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “Presently he got very excited and walked up and down the hearth-rug.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “He got up slowly, and looked down at me from the hearth-rug.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

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