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Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls.
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Not until spring could he stand on uncarpeted floors without his rear legs splaying out in a V.
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Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants.
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Walking across a carpeted floor is enough to release surplus electrons.
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The stairs were carpeted with a brown and blue floral design.
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Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
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The forest floor was carpeted with wild flowers.
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It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock.
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The sanctuary is a low-lit carpeted hall filled with nine long rows of padded, auditorium-style seats clustered around a raised platform called the bimah.
American Grace
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They were carpeted with a faded red and blue runner held in place with brass stair rods and rings.
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There's a minister who today deserves to be cross-examined by his boss, carpeted, and possibly sacked.
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The clubhouse is centrally heated and carpeted with tea/coffee facilities and mineral bar.
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Liza and Art gave each other a look of mutual confoundment, then Liza joined her husband on the carpeted stairs.
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The room was carpeted, and there was a sofa in it, though a very old one, and two arm-chairs and a mahogany office-table, and a cellaret, which was generally well supplied with wine which Dobbs Broughton did not get out of the vaults of his neighbours, Burton and Bangles.
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On some of the hikes, the forest floor was carpeted with bunchberries.
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Half an hour later, as Dawn and I made our way down the steep, uncarpeted stairs, Emily met us at the bottom.
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A tiny stream ran down the tiny valley through a tiny meadow that was carpeted knee-high with grass and blue and white nemophila.
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The valley was carpeted with azalea blossoms.
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They cleared the crest and emerged from the pool as if into another world, for now they were in the thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos and looking down the open, sun-washed hillside, across the nodding grasses, to the drifts of blue and white nemophilae that carpeted the tiny meadow on either side the tiny stream.
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The dining room was carpeted, and there was a quiet buzz of conversation from the other guests.
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The dining area is floored in linoleum while the living area is carpeted and features a distinctive marble surround fireplace.
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To mask its original functionalism, the steel frame had been side-draped with cascades of pink net down to the carpeted metal floor.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Clothes are left on red carpeted stairs in the hallway of the bachelor pad.
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The path was not paved; it was carpeted in wonderful green grass.
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How softly the turf had carpeted the untraveled avenue--he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet!
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The main entrance was carpeted in a deep red thick carpet which also went up the grand staircase in the middle.
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The walls were panelled in some form of regal looking wood, and the floors were carpeted royal red.
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Floors were vacuumed with a high-efficiency particulate air filter vacuum cleaner at a floor-specific rate, uncarpeted floors were wet-washed with a high-phosphate detergent, and all floors were again HEPA-vacuumed.
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Cardenas, who bends over to pick up a piece of popcorn off the suite's carpeted floor, is also known as a stickler for cleanliness and a borderline perfectionist.
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The room is carpeted and has a white ceramic suite which comprises a free-standing Victorian bath, wash hand basin and toilet.
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The living room and bedroom were carpeted, as was the closet, but the kitchen was covered with a bad plastic tile.
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We just opened a new room at the cafe, and it's carpeted it came that way, and we didn't want to spend the money to re-lay a floor.
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My room was carpeted in red and the walls were black with silver and red flowers.
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I've re-carpeted our bedroom and added fitted wardrobes.
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All ten trains will be fitted with a new buffet car and kitchen, the coaches will be re-carpeted and all seats refurbished and finished in scratch-resistant coatings.
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They were quite distinct from the plushly carpeted front stairs, reserved for the gentry when accessing the living quarters and drawing rooms above.
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In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
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The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day.
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On his left, across the hall, an uncarpeted sitting room had walls decorated with paste-ons of classical scenes.
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The illegal bouts, in carpeted 16-by-16-foot pits surrounded by four-foot walls, are staged in hidden venues, usually with no more than a few dozen spectators allowed.
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Sangre de toro is a tanager with a breast and throat carpeted, it seemed, with crimson velvet.
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Here there's a nice 1898 Arts and Crafts style house, sheltered by beech copses with kettle nest boxes and carpeted yellow by winter aconites.
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Part of the messaging that night involved the use of children, several of whom sat on the carpeted hotel riser at Harper's feet while he spoke.
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Stair spindles and a banister had also been ripped out and used as firewood while glass carpeted the floors.
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The room was pitch black as he entered and inched along the carpeted floor.
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They were carpeted with a faded red and blue runner held in place with brass stair rods and rings.
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The trees were tall conifers, and the ground was carpeted with soft brown needles.
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I sat on my stained carpeted floor and watched the kitty prance around my room on an adventure, as I had for the past four days.
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The snappers soon demolished the tuna and the current blasted us up from 30m into a shallow, sandy area, carpeted with garden eels.
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Instead of going out to the movies we play board games. Instead of bowling, we jury-rig a game of bocce ball using dice in our carpeted hallway.
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Fornier was dazed, stupidly sprawled on the carpeted deck, his bridgework loose in his mouth.
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Photo Gallery: Alaska A water lily carpeted pond edges Grayling Lake Trail, north of Seward, Alaska.
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It is carpeted with rugs woven in conflict areas and build by volunteers and craftsmen partly trained in the Prince's workshops.
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It has been carpeted over by the cerebrum, but it is there, deep within the forebrain, and consists of the limbic lobe, the hypothalamus, and, perhaps, other organs of the diencephalon.
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Noise banged through the high-ceilinged, uncarpeted room, matching the din inside her skull.
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The "paragraphist," according to Willis, was lodging in the most crowded part of Holborn, in an uncarpeted and bleak-looking room, with a deal table, two or three chairs, and a few books.
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The communal areas are carpeted with a peculiar nonslip sandpaper-effect flooring.
Times, Sunday Times
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His office as Secretary was the only one in the Department that had carpet, which gave a very literal ring to officers 'dread of being "carpeted" or, as they used to say, "summoned to the carpet".
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It is carpeted with rugs woven in conflict areas and build by volunteers and craftsmen partly trained in the Prince's workshops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woods are nice, carpeted in the blue, yellow and white of bluebells, buttercups and anemones.
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Q: My teen-ager was walking down our carpeted basement steps and fell on her buttocks.
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I met him in the small, relaxed, carpeted upper dining room, as opposed to the larger, more boisterous, uncarpeted ground-floor one.
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She removed her hoody slowly and let it fall to her carpeted floor.
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A soft rubber surface carpeted the pavement, but the jungle gym of Mr. Stern's youth was still there.
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The floor was carpeted, again, in a light shade of azure, which added to the misty tint in the hall.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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Its foyer was deeply carpeted and bright with chintzy furniture and massive floral arrangements.
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Carpeted by rich volcanic ash, the region's moist and misty vales cradle Panama's coffee industry and also produce some of the country's finest citrus fruits and bananas.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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The surrounding area was carpeted with fake green grass, probably rubberised to prevent lawsuits.
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The TV station where Tiel worked had a news director, but the man with the title conducted business from inside a carpeted office and was more a bean counter and administrator than a hands-on boss.
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From inside it sounds like a Spitfire with the whine of the gearbox, a resonance through the uncarpeted cockpit and stones rattling like bullets off the underside.
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Our tent was pitched in a little glade, which was but a few yards across, and carpeted thickly with the red kinnikinic berries, in their season beloved of bears, and from the leaves of which bush the Indians make a substitute for tobacco.
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The floor was carpeted a deep maroon, small vases woven into the pattern, each vase with a bouquet of curling flowers.
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In one of the vast, anonymous, carpeted, windowless suites that pepper every large hotel in the USA, about fifty people from the same company were engaged in collective hopscotch, frisbee and kickball.
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One group finds their way to the Angel Room, a small carpeted space in the Parish Hall lined with bags of canned food that have been collected at Mass over the past few weeks.
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The ground was thickly carpeted with pine needles.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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Evan let his left hand slide away from the computer terminal as he spoke, thoughtfully contemplating the carpeted floor for a moment.
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Clothes are left on red carpeted stairs in the hallway of the bachelor pad.
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Carpenter crossed the carpeted floor of the Cathedral's dark interior and stopped only to genuflect wearily, and daub his fingers in the font once more.
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Rooms that weren't carpeted with rugs were tiled out on the floor to make some kind of design.
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All carpeted lecterns are available in Gunmetal Gray as standard.
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The floor, still uncarpeted wood paneling, was covered next to the bed with a flower pattern throw rug.
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The snow carpeted the land, bathing the rolling plains in a magnificent monochromic splendor.
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Priss dropped her grip on the receiver, which promptly clattered onto the uncarpeted kitchen floor with a resounding metallic noise.
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The show floor is like a carnival midway, only carpeted and slightly less aromatic.
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The tiny clearing was carpeted with thick cloves, so Cora laid all of the garments out flat to dry and hoped to enjoy the green fragrance.
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Choose an uncarpeted room and protect the table with a cover that you can roll up and throw away or shake off outside and wash.
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And there was a slide show, conducted in one of those long-vanished 1970s rooms, furnished only with carpeted cubes and painted the colors of a bag of candy corn.
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Here the neglectfulness and dreariness of the outer aspect of the grave are completely done away with, and the dead lie peacefully under ground carpeted with flowers, and shaded by trees.
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The previously lichen-covered rocks were carpeted with deep green moss.
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Finally we stop for lunch, having found a small clearing, carpeted with lush, soft grass and lying near the stream.
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A third of it is open heathland, carpeted with purple heathers and spotted yellow with gorse.
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In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
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She was wearing a sleeveless short silken white night gown and tapping her bare feet on the carpeted floors of the room.
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The carpeted floor between his television and his walk in closet was covered with his collection of beanbags and large cushions.
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There was a wide strip of turf on each side of the road bejewelled with poppies and daisies, matted with yellow and white bedstraws, carpeted with clovers, and over all lay a coating of fine chalky dust, legacy of passing cart and carriage.
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We had had avenues of trees, knotted here and there into groves; we had passed pretty farmhouses with bright milk-cans and pans hanging on the red walls, like placks in a drawing-room; we had seen gardens flooded with roses, and long stretches of water carpeted with lilies white and yellow; then we had come to pine forests and heather, and always we had had the good klinker which, though not as velvety for motoring as asphalt, is free from dust even in dry weather.
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The room is carpeted and features an open mahogany surround fireplace with marble inset and hearth.
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Saffron crocus is grown in the fields of Pampore, and in the autumn, the land is carpeted by the pale lavender flowers open to the sky.
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In number 19 the room is carpeted and includes a period cast iron fireplace with tiled hearth.
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The house is carpeted throughout.
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One, a small loo (also without paper) the other two locked, then a small uncarpeted staircase led even higher.
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The walls were whitewashed, sporting a band of azure as trim, and the floors were carpeted with a matching blue color.
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I've re-carpeted our bedroom and added fitted wardrobes.
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Maven cut out from the wall, riding his open gun across the hallway, galumphing up the carpeted stairs.
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There are four other bedrooms in the house, reached by a narrow carpeted staircase.
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It was not carpeted, but there was a piece of drugget some three yards long spread before the fireplace.
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The ground was thickly carpeted with red and yellow leaves, little columns of smoke rising at intervals where people were burning weeds or rotten wood in the fields; and just enough purple mist to poetize everything.
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The stairs were carpeted with a strip of dark blue drugget held down by irons.
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I was surprised to find, in the northwest, a land of rolling green hills carpeted with flowers, olive groves and distant hills topped by a solitary farmhouse ringed with poplar trees.
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This is perfect walking country: hillsides carpeted with yellow gorse, crunchy patches of bracken scattered here and there, springy soil underfoot.
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It was mainly carpeted and had two bedrooms, a bath, a kitchen, a small dining area, and a living room.
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Most of the area is deforested and carpeted with African savanna grasses, but various parks preserve patches of remnant or second-growth forest.
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Facing us was the usual circus ring, carpeted with sawdust; the lights dimmed and the show began.
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The majority of the space has a bare uncarpeted concrete floor without a suspended ceiling.
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The resultant puke itself, of course, added to the savage osmic holocaust which more than crime, more than despair, more than the appalling sense of victimisation and neglect turned those places (ghastly enough in their nylon carpeted, vending-machine, strip-lit healthy incarnations) into an idea of hell that the combined imaginations of Hieronymus Bosch, Dante and Antonin Artaud could never conjure up.
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A soft rubber surface carpeted the pavement, but the jungle gym of Mr.
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Inside were sparkling chandeliers in every room, carpeted staircases, butlers and servants at your feet and really wonderful food and expensive wine.
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Basically the downstairs bathroom and the kitchen are the only uncarpeted rooms, and the kitchen is somewhat of a high-traffic area.
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You can wade for miles, across everything from mangrove lagoons to pancake flats carpeted with turtle grass.
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Hard working reps at the bottom and non entities in carpeted offices at the top.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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I was surprised to find, in the northwest, a land of rolling green hills carpeted with flowers, olive groves and distant hills topped by a solitary farmhouse ringed with poplar trees.
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The dining room was carpeted, and there was a quiet buzz of conversation from the other guests.
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Truly, my feet trod a path of "faerie," carpeted with soft mosses, a path winding along beside a river of shadows on whose dark tide stars were floating.
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Clothes are left on red carpeted stairs in the hallway of the bachelor pad.
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The dining room was carpeted, and there was a quiet buzz of conversation from the other guests.
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A tarmac path, lightly gravelled, carpeted with late and fading blossom frames the foreground.
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A smooth white blanket of snow carpeted the landscape in all directions.
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He and two volunteers settle into the carpeted rear of the vehicle, walkie-talkies in hand, and peer out the windows.
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Larch and spruce shelter nature's own rock garden with the forest floor carpeted with many species of wild flowers.
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Carpeted by rich volcanic ash, the region's moist and misty vales cradle Panama's coffee industry and also produce some of the country's finest citrus fruits and bananas.
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Some areas are carpeted with thick mats of water hyacinths - mats so dense that herons and blackbirds walk across them and no boat can shove through.
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Fashionistas cross the threshold and instantly reach out to touch not only the garments, but also draperies of natural silk and translucent voile, not to mention custom-carpeted floor areas.
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Wisconsin is carpeted thick and green following such mildness and moisture.
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Crystalline chandeliers hung from high rafters and soft music could be heard from somewhere down a long carpeted hallway.
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The floor was carpeted, again, in a light shade of azure, which added to the misty tint in the hall.
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The students of the school had carpeted several parts of the campus with rangoli designs.
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In a scalloped sun-trap glade carpeted with misty bluebells a black cap sang.
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Now the floor was carpeted, with a long woven length of cloth that was blood red.
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Another set of footsteps - this time descending the inner staircase from somewhere above them, ringing out on the uncarpeted stairs.
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And there was a slide show, conducted in one of those long-vanished 1970s rooms, furnished only with carpeted cubes and painted the colors of a bag of candy corn.
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In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
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The singular situation of this romantic spot invited me to remain in it till the sun was about to sink on the horizon: during which time I visited every little cave delved in the ridges of rock, and gathered large sprigs of the mezereon and rhododendron in full bloom, which, with a surprising variety of other plants, carpeted this lovely glen.
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The lamplight cast gentle shadows, and on the carpeted floor Ben's feet made no sound at all.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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You can choose to follow the port side of the hull, which is carpeted with hard and soft corals sheltering dozens of fish species, or follow the stern round to the remnants of the rear deck.
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The corridor and the offices beyond were plushly carpeted and well furnished.
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Clasping his hands together, he took a deep breath to lengthen his spine and looked gently downward toward the plush, carpeted floor.
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This, constructed of trunks of trees, branches and osiers, was placed about twenty paces from the water, completely concealed by the bushes that encircled it; the inside was fitted up in rustic taste with seats of wood, the whole carpeted with turf, and the entrance planted with every kind of odoriferous flower.
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Shadow fell upon shadow; darkening nadirs entwining like oily hands across walls and uncarpeted floors.
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The room was carpeted and had two beds, each on opposite walls.
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Downstairs, the line to get an autograph and photo with Snooki stretched a tenth of a mile at least along the convention hall's carpeted concrete.
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Gloria is standing there in the durably carpeted, unnaturally wide hallway, wearing a light raincoat.
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The church floor was carpeted in mottled wall-to-wall carpeting.
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With over 45 boys and young men, and perhaps one other adult leader (the other leaders wimped out and slept in the carpeted aerobicize room ... without the distractions of youth).
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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
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The balance beam is only twelve inches off the fully carpeted floor.
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The insides of the vans are hollowed out and fitted with small, carpeted seats.
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News of the Tendulkar shaped void at the heart of the evening spread like a sudden autumn cloudburst, much to the disappointment of the platoons of Indian television crews, who had spent the early evening rattling about the carpeted halls in a state of unfulfilled pre-Sachin anxiety.
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Olive groves were carpeted by these colourful flowers.
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I woke up to Ohio's famously freezing weather and accidentally tripped myself as I got out of bed, therefore landing on my freezing derrière right in the middle of the freezing, uncarpeted floor.
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Carpeted in a rich red and filled with carved furniture, the sapphire blue hangings, walls and cushions looked out of place.
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I worm around on my carpeted floor, banging my head into my Play Station Two.
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To mask its original functionalism, the steel frame had been side-draped with cascades of pink net down to the carpeted metal floor.
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Our past has become the cacophonous cathedral of the American conversation, while our once-ranging future has shrunk into a snug and warm place, as cozy and shag carpeted as a suburban den.
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Jess Collier's office on the thirty-second floor of a very upscale building on Fourth Ave. had a large, mostly empty outer office, carefully carpeted and furnished in gray-black tones, carefully muralled with obscure black-and-white photography, and carefully receptioned by a young, leggy platinum blonde dressed in white and seated at a curved, black-tinted, glass-topped desk.
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Blinding lights found twelve boys immediately jumping out of six brown-painted metal bunk beds onto a bland gray uncarpeted tile floor with an almost military precision.
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The sanctuary is a low-lit carpeted hall filled with nine long rows of padded, auditorium-style seats clustered around a raised platform called the bimah.
American Grace
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Priss nearly rocketed right through the ceiling at the sudden and abrupt sound of a fragile object crashing onto hard, uncarpeted floor and breaking into pieces.
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There were tall timber-trees — yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood — and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.
Prester John
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The floor of the wide valley was carpeted with hummocky grass.
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I burst through the wall sliding along the carpeted floor hitting everything in my path.
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Crossing the carpeted floor to the counter, I set my tote on the gray marble surface and unzipped it.
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For two days, we climbed towards Akhamani, the Kallawayas' sacred mountain, its lower slopes verdant, carpeted with terraces and grazed by llamas, alpacas and sheep.
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We drove south through beautiful mountain valleys carpeted with olive groves and orange orchards.
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When I got back to the cottage last night, the living room was carpeted by wrapping papers.
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Now I know that in the parks around Islington, north London, dog dirt is a menace, but the countryside is almost entirely carpeted with excrement.
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In Haworth she saw that the library had been redecorated, recarpeted and refurnished, and provided with many new books.
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This airy room is carpeted and has a pleasantly high ceiling.
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The floors in this room were carpeted and there was slow music flowing around.
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bare uncarpeted floors
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I twisted my body off my bed so my feet would land on the carpeted floor.
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I woke up to Ohio's famously freezing weather and accidentally tripped myself as I got out of bed, therefore landing on my freezing derrière right in the middle of the freezing, uncarpeted floor.
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They are generally good for playing hockey with on uncarpeted floors.
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Past a turn on the landing (where a blue wasp lay dying on the windowsill) I reached a hallway carpeted in frayed sisal matting.
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Surrounding the circle will be a circular grass mound, carpeted in bluebells.
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She enumerated the many rooms that were in the house: those that were covered with carpets, the margins whereof had to be beeswaxed: those others, only partially covered with rugs, which had to be entirely waxed: the upper rooms were uncarpeted and unrugged, and had, therefore, to be scrubbed: the basement, consisting of two red-flagged kitchens and a scullery, had also to be scoured out.
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The underwater topography in these areas usually consists of jumbles of boulders, carpeted with soft corals, which tumble down to sand at 30m and form caves, crevices and tunnels.
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Finally I let him stretch out on the carpeted floor beside my feet as Dad and I talked.
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The stairs and landing are carpeted in beige and, along with the conservatory, are the only areas without wooden floorboards.
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Having been up in front of the beaks myself on suspicion of failing to obtain the best possible placing, I'm not about to start a campaign for real jockeys to be carpeted for being beaten in races they should have won.
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The audience was oblivious to the comings and goings of princes and presidents in the thickly carpeted lounge upstairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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We emerged in a gorgeously decorated hall lit with wall-mounted lamps and carpeted with Victorian rugs.
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a flower-carpeted hillside
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The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted.
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And those who possess or have cultivated in themselves this fine moral sentiment of unselfishness, justice, and considerateness, will be surrounded by an atmosphere of culture though their dwelling-place be an uncarpeted cabin, while those who lack this restraining grace will be "uncultivated" though their surroundings afford every comfort, beauty, and luxury.
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flowers carpeted the meadows
