"Hullo!" thought I, "my friend the head chambermaid takes it easy here. Nice state for a carpet to be in, in one of the best bedrooms at the Gatliffe Arms." Carpet! I had been jumping up on the bed, and staring up at the walls, but I had never so much as given a glance down at the carpet. Think of me pretending to be a lawyer, and not knowing how to look low enough!英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
In the next number is a letter by Dr. Carpenter, which chiefly consists of a protest against the reviewer's somewhat contemptuous classification of Dr. Carpenter and my father as disciple and master. In the course of the letter Dr. Carpenter says--page 461:--英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
They reached the dining-room and Matrena played her dark-lantern on the sofa where the general always reclined. The sofa was in its usual place on the carpet. She pushed it back and raised the carpet, laying the floor bare. Then she got onto her knees and examined the floor minutely. She rose, wiping the perspiration from her brow, put the carpet hack in place, adjusted the sofa and dropped upon it with a great sigh.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
I looked narrowly all over the bunch, and I felt all over it with the ends of my fingers, and nothing came of that. Then I scraped it over slowly and gently with my nails. My second finger-nail stuck a little at one place. I parted the pile of the carpet over that place, and saw a thin slit which had been hidden by the pile being smoothed over it--a slit about half an inch long, with a little end of brown thread, exactly the color of the carpet ground, sticking out about a quarter of an inch from the middle of it. Just as I laid hold of the thread gently, I heard a footstep outside the door.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
In the _Compagnon du Tour de France_, Pierre Huguenin, a carpenter, travels about among all these different societies of the _Compagnonnage_, and lets us see something of their competition, rivalries, battles, etc. He is then sent for to the Villepreux Chateau, to do some work. The noble Yseult falls in love with this fine-talking carpenter, and at once begs him to make her happy by marrying her.英文原著 · 《George Sand》
The floor was of polished wooden mosaic, nearly covered with a rich carpet bordered with thick black fringe. Another room displayed a margin of satinwood around the carpet. Hung with tapestry, its walls of crimson silk were topped with a gilded cornice which shot down gleams of light far into the polished floor.英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
Yeah, he pulled the carpet from one of his old buildings-- carpet that was already infested-- and then he reinstalled it in my client's apartment to drive him out.美剧 · 《Suits》
The carpet fibers found at the crime scene-- they are from a Socala Tweed Stitch carpet.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
It's either an old shag carpet or a mass grave of dead muppets.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
One of those Sherlock ladies left her carpal tunnel brace in here.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Every single year, fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, Every single year, fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers,演讲 · 《Learning from dirty jobs ~ Mike Rowe》