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  • Patsy's leadership, husband and wife clasped hands under cover of the carriage-rug, and Miss Aline smiled as she caught them doing it, which pleased her better than many fortunes.

    Patsy 1887

  • A gentleman -- the Englishman, of course -- sat opposite to her, and leant across the white bear-skin carriage-rug to talk to her.

    The Lovels of Arden 1875

  • Parcels of grocery and bottles of wine often lurked beneath the crimson-lined leopard-skin carriage-rug; and it was no uncommon thing for Talbot to find himself making a footstool of a huge loaf of bread.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • They all disdained the gentlemen's self-denying offers of their ulsters, and only Nuttie consented to have the carriage-rug added to her trappings, and ingeniously tied on cloak-fashion with her sash by Gerard.

    Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Wealthy persons use a wolf-skin for a carriage-rug, and in the rainy season as a mat at the door of a room.

    Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840

  • By this time Eustace could no longer be withheld from paying his respects to the lady guest, and Harold and Dora came with him, bringing the kangaroo, for which Viola had entreated; and she also made him fetch the lion-skin, which had been dressed and lined and made into a beautiful carriage-rug; and to Dora she owed the exhibition of the great scar across Harold's left palm, which, though now no inconvenience, he would carry through life.

    My Young Alcides Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • That moment, with the great thick carriage-rug on his arm, Harold darted forward, knocking down a gun which some foolish person had brought from a shooting-gallery, and shouting, "Don't!

    My Young Alcides Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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