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  • Except for the far front corner, the entire left side of the wagon was covered with fluffy, overstuffed, brightly colored pillows atop a thick-piled, midnight-black fur -- probably Gisella's bed, Tas decided.

    Stalling 2010

  • This was indeed a cottage: one story, with a storybook roof of thick-piled green shingles that mimicked the thatch roofs of, say, the Shire.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • This was indeed a cottage: one story, with a storybook roof of thick-piled green shingles that mimicked the thatch roofs of, say, the Shire.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • This was indeed a cottage: one story, with a storybook roof of thick-piled green shingles that mimicked the thatch roofs of, say, the Shire.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • She led the way across the thick-piled carpeting to a pair of large divans upholstered in gold-and-white brocade that faced each other before a fireplace.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • The polished oak beams overhead glanced back the merry fire-glow, the painted walls shone with rosy tints, and warm lights flitting along them, and the thick-piled carpet yielded back a velvety sense of luxury.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • For one thing, it had a carpet - a good carpet, too, a thick-piled offcut.

    Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992

  • The hillside behind it was a rich tumble of evergreens mixed with stands of beech and birch and oak, falling away to well-manicured lawn that swept like a thick-piled carpet around the tidy white building with its oval-topped stained-glass windows well spaced along both side walls.

    Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990

  • A century ago, elegant ladies and their sleek escorts had strolled up and down the thick-piled carpet, never dreaming of their fate - or imagining that in little more than two years the guns of August would put an end to the gilded Edwardian Age they so perfectly epitomized.

    The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

  • A century ago, elegant ladies and their sleek escorts had strolled up and down the thick-piled carpet, never dreaming of their fate - or imagining that in little more than two years the guns of August would put an end to the gilded Edwardian Age they so perfectly epitomized.

    The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

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