And now he hooks up with Phinuit and this Delorme woman, and leaves me to shuffle my feet on the doormat... and thinks I'll let him get away with it.

He made himself a sort of doormat for his hero, and treasured the dirt that came from the great man's heavy boots.

" He glanced fiercely at the retreating figure of the lighterman, and, turning a deaf ear to a request for a lock of his hair to patch a favorite doormat with, resumed with much vigor his task of sweeping up the litter.

They are small and better looking than most; nor do their coats present so much the appearance of a "doormat with the mange," as those of the animals of other countries.

There was a doormat on the concrete floor by the steps.

I made my pony trot, therefore, Violette rubbing her nose against my knee all the time, and looking up at me to ask how she had deserved that this hairy doormat of a creature should be preferred to her.

His hair was like a doormat.

'I won't put foot ev'n on doormat till I'm told wha' I am here.'

He smiled, suddenly appeased, and put his foot unsteadily on the doormat.

'But, un'stan', I wouldn't ev'n have pu' foot on doormatno, not ev'n on doormat'

A tall woman stood on the doormat.

Then the portières flew apart, and facing a glare of bilious-hued electric light, I heard the shouted announcement of 'Miss Doormat' as I stumbled over a tiger rug into the room.

Even the Queen conceded that, once you were accustomed to his ways, and exercised some firmness about being made a doormat of, and had it understood once for all that meals could not be kept waiting for him, she supposed there might be women worse off.

They have settled the matter between them, however, and the elder, the shrine of pilgrimage, to which the other is but a stepping-stone, or even, as I may say, a humble doormat, takes the name of the Cité.

They did not need any doormat, for when they lay down their feet would be at the door.

I saw her flying down the lobby with the net over her head, looking like an oriental bride; I heard the street door bang, and I found the butter-fly net on the doormat.

Along about the time you want to buy a go-cart for the twins, you'll discover that you'll have to make Tommy's busted old baby-carriage do, because you've got to use the money to buy a tutti-frutti ice-cream spoon for the young widow who sent you a doormat with "Welcome" on it.