stair-carpet

He fits right in, even with the stair-carpet: He is so bold and unafraid, and such a cuddly, soppy thing.

2009 June « Barefoot in the Kitchen 2009

Ragnhild, who made such use herself of the thick red stair-carpet and the keyholes everywhere!

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

I wasn't going to wait for a crowd, so I out with the stair-carpet and bowled it open all along the pavement.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

When I woke I thought it over, and I remembered a big roll of old stair-carpet up in a garret where nobody went -- a useless old roll that my dear old mother has dragged about with us for years -- ever since we lived in Russell Square, in fact.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

When I woke I thought it over, and I remembered a big roll of old stair-carpet up in a garret where nobody went -- a useless old roll that my dear old mother has dragged about with us for years -- ever since we lived in Russell Square, in fact.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

But the paint was on and had time to dry; the red stair-carpet came and was laid down with brass rods; the staircase looked wonderfully fine; wonderfully fine, too, were the doors and windows in the rooms upstairs.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

I wasn't going to wait for a crowd, so I out with the stair-carpet and bowled it open all along the pavement.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

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.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

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.

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

"Confess, now," said I, looking at them, "have you not had secret designs on the hall - and stair-carpet?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various