The Bistrot des Augustins is a worn and dim little place with 12 or so seats.

He half expected to see a worn place in the crimson carpet where he'd stood to endure a rambling lecture from his besotted father.

The coach was older, painted in light and dark gray, bearing more than a few scrapes and worn places on the bodywork.

She tried to ignore the ice-edged wind that seemed to cut right through the worn places in her nondescript brown clothing.

Here was a cooking pot, the worn place on its handle somehow startling in its familiarity.

Aunt Janet allowed us to cover it with an old tablecloth, the worn places in which the girls artfully concealed with frost-whitened ferns.

There was a worn place on the rug just under the tiny table near the sofa.

She has covered up worn places with doilies, patched scratches with dye, and repainted the walls the same colors over and over.

The worn places were gone from the steering wheel; the chrome winked pleasantly in the summer evening light falling through the garage door.

The one-eyed man stood so suddenly that Mote stumbled backward, catching his heel on a worn place in the carpet and nearly falling.