Ilse's nearly joyous reaction to the crappy little apartment - its veneer furniture and thin rugs (Lowell thought the shag - room carpet looked like an enormous bath towel) made him face what he thought was an unpleasant truth about his -.

I was lying on my room carpet wearing a balaclava back to front, pinned down by my friend with her knees on my shoulders, while she made whooping noises like a submarine diving.

Ellis is laid out on the drawing room carpet.

Looking at the cardboard boxes camped like tanks all over the sitting room carpet, you realise something has to be done.

I apologized for bothering him away from the office (a major sin in that corporation) but, spreading invoices and canceled checks across his living room carpet, I took him through what I'd discovered.

When originally found, was facedown on living room carpet.

I have quite worn a path in the drawing room carpet, I declare.

It must have been a doddle for Robert Louis Stevenson and Jerome K Jerome to pump out the books because they were not expected to vacuum the sitting room carpet and light the fires.