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Examples
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I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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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 2007
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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 2007
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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 2007
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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 2007
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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.
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And the two women went trampling wildly upon the document and smothering it with a corner of the hearth-rug.
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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 Herbert George 2006
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If I did, may I drop down dead at this moment on this hearth-rug!
The Virginians 2006
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I had a cup of coffee and some cold ham, while he yarned away on the hearth-rug.
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