Mr. weevil was standing beside the visitor on the hearthrug.
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The personage on the hearthrug had been listening with profound attention.
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Durie posted on the hearthrug in the guise of Hymen's priest.
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Mr Merdle was slinking about the hearthrug, waiting to welcome Mrs Sparkler.
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Maggie had stood on the hearthrug, in her large white apron, crying.
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She is standing on a wolfskin hearthrug, for what reason is unrecorded.
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March, with placid satisfaction, from the hearthrug, after the last guest had gone.
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He stood on the hearthrug in big, roomy boots, and uttered no word of greeting.
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There was also a small fireplace, dark, with the grate closed and a simple hearthrug before it.
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It's all so-and-so happening upon someone in woodland seclusion, playing in a pool, or wrestling on the hearthrug.
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Both are cats, cousins of our amiable purring friend of the hearthrug, but the tiger is king of the family.
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The girls sat down on the hearthrug, and Mrs. Amber seated herself before her tea tray and flicked away a tear.
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That night Hildebrand secretly slept in the boxroom, on a pile of newspapers, with a rag-bag and a hearthrug over him.
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That night Hildebrand secretly slept in the boxroom, on a pile of newspapers, with a rag-bag and a hearthrug over him.
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On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
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An actor friend of my partner's is so all-over hairy that my young sons assume he is a hearthrug and sit on him.
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This time it's the oldest sister, Caroline, who is aggrieved after having discovered her husband on the hearthrug with their 19-year-old babysitter.
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So I stood between her and the hearth, on which lay the captain's corpse, with the hearthrug turned up on either side to cover it.
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There was a rocking chair that sat next to a fireplace, which held a medium sized cooking cauldron that was spilling ashes onto the burgundy hearthrug.
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He sat bowed over, his head between his hands, staring at the hearthrug, and at the tip of the satin shoe that showed under her dress.
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Sir Edward Bransome made his way to his study, opened the door with a Yale key, turned on the electric lights, and crossed slowly to the hearthrug.
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Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
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Gung-ho and off-balance, Hussain looked as if he was swatting a hearthrug with a carpet beater as he attempted to cart Lee's bouncer over square leg.
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He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug.
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Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood.
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Why, this morning before breakfast was half over, he stood up on the hearthrug, put his hands in his pockets, and appealed to the country at the top of his voice.
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Even Ribby's lilac dress and Duchess's black mane illustrate Potter's concern for color in this book.MacDonald 1986, pp. 95–6 Potter's own three-door oven, her hearthrug, her indoor plants, her coronation teapot, and her water pump are minutely detailed with more color than in other productions. The large format of the original edition, the captions accompanying the full page color illustrations, and the occasional lack of coordination between picture and text all display Potter's delight in the pictures, sometimes at the expense of the text.
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