122 Verbs to Use for the Word carpets

The deer love to lie down beneath its spreading branches; bright streams from the snow that is always near ripple through its groves, and bryanthus spreads precious carpets in its shade.

They begged, however, to be permitted to spread a carpet on which to dry their goods, and this being granted, they took the carpet by its corners and stretched it so that it covered several acres.

"On my return," he said, "I'll buy a lamp, A coffee-tray, and goodly sugar-bowl; A big and little mattress, too, I'll buy, A carpet and a rug so soft and fine.

Shrubs also hasten in time to the new gardens,kalmia with its glossy leaves and purple flowers, the arctic willow, making soft woven carpets, together with the heathy bryanthus and cassiope, the fairest and dearest of them all.

Then the bemuffled figure was lifted tenderly and carried to the waiting chair, where Monsieur Pelletan was bowing with his head almost touching the carpet.

It is the foot that treads the carpet which makes one to differ from another.

I acceded to this courteous invitation, and followed the mother and son up the mud-brick steps leading to the rude terrace; and though anything but clean, it was a great improvement on what we had left, and with genuine kindliness the old woman brought out an old but well-preserved carpet and spread it for me.

Carpets are at the same time taken up and beaten, except where the mistress of the house has been worried into an experiment by the often-reiterated question, "Why beat your carpets?"

Before sweeping the carpet, it is a good practice to sprinkle it all over with tea-leaves, which not only lay all dust, but give a slightly fragrant smell to the room.

He liked a gay carpet on the floor, and the walls of the family sitting-room in the house on Vestal street were covered with paper resplendent with bunches of pink roses.

I stole up to the door, lifted the heavy carpet that hung before it, and looked in.

When now and again I went into one of the master's studies and felt a carpet under my feet, and saw a pleasant litter of pipes and novels lying on the table, it seemed to me that I was in a holy place, and I looked at the hearthrug, the wallpaper, and the upholstered chairs with a kind of desolate love for things that were nice to see and touch.

They are laying the red carpets in the court!

We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope.

When the wild geese saw the flower-carpet they feared that they had lingered too long in the southern part of the country.

She trod a carpet.

"You can easily turn the carpet up a little between the rings.

His landlady had hung rude pictures on the wall and given him a rag carpet.

AUBUSSON, a French town on the Creuse, manufactures carpets and tapestry.

About half a mile from the town there stood a small cottage where house-cleaning was going on, and on a fence, not far from the canal, there hung a carpet gaily adorned with stripes and spots of red and yellow.

Six power looms, on which women wove carpets, webbing, silks, etc., were run by this engine.

It covered the carpet and furniture and pictures.

The valley, as it spread below our gaze, appeared one huge carpet of heavy-fruited orange-trees, save where at times a rent in the web left visible the bluish blades of wheat, or the intense green of a flax-plantation.

To clean a carpet, take a small wet tea-leaf and roll it well over the carpet.

He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.

122 Verbs to Use for the Word  carpets