Sometimes the message from the red carpet is more generalized.

Winter sat back and raised her palms from the carpet.

The fire went up from the carpet to the ceiling.

She neither looked at him nor picked up the Emory board from the carpet.

He picked up a little shining piece of steel from the carpet.

I lifted the hand from the carpet and said, "Catch."

The samples were collected from the carpet or floor in the baby's bedroom.

He saw her caress what she had claimed from the carpet by the bed.

She had fluff from the carpet all over her jacket.

Sometimes, he would add lines like: 'You've got to pick them up from the carpet, or they'll tread in.