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  • She found a place high up on the soft-carpeted stairs, and he sat down heavily beside her.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • She found a place high up on the soft-carpeted stairs, and he sat down heavily beside her.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • She found a place high up on the soft-carpeted stairs, and he sat down heavily beside her.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • This held the night's snow, so that morning showed the village girt on three sides by a stream soft-carpeted and safe to the eye, but failing beneath the feet of a child.

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Andre-Louis crossed the threshold of that great room, soft-carpeted to the foot, dazzling to the eye.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • He drew her down beside him, and they sat like two children perched on the soft-carpeted steps.

    The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • The white napery, the gleam of glasses, the shaded electric lamps, the blazing fire, and the lofty soft-carpeted room left an impression that stayed with me for many a month to come.

    The Man from the Clouds 1907

  • Certainly it was a charming room of a usual enough type: lamp-lit and soft-carpeted; brass fittings about the fireplace where a coal fire glowed; a large red reading-table with the customary litter of books and periodicals; comfortable chairs to sit in; two uncommonly pretty mahogany bookcases with quaint leaded windows.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • On reaching the well-known number of Hall & Pemberton's place, the editor entered the unlocked door, passed with his friends along the soft-carpeted hall, and ascended the stairs.

    The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

  • Then, feeling pretty hungry, she ran down the broad, soft-carpeted stairs, with their wide mahogany banisters -- she would have sat upon the latter and slid down if she had dared -- and entering the dining-room, which was furnished throughout with yellow oak, even to the polished floor, she took her place by her hostess's side.

    Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890

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