Yes--there again on the hearthrug stood the tall figure she had so often pictured thus to herself.
Yes--there he stood--on the hearthrug as she had last seen him in that room.
The sharp-eyed dog on the hearthrug looked from one to the other.
The fox terrier laid himself on the hearthrug again, but instead of sleeping watched his two human companions.
She places the stray chair near the hearthrug between Higgins and Pickering, and stands behind it waiting for the girl to sit down].
Eliza smiles for the first time; expresses her feelings by a wild pantomime in which an imitation of Higgins's exit is confused with her own triumph; and finally goes down on her knees on the hearthrug to look for the ring.
How, therefore, can the kitten on the bed and the kitten on the hearthrug be real kittens?
Sir Anthony took the hearthrug position, his hands behind his back, his legs apart.
Heaven knows how long we remained speechless and motionless--I in my wheel-chair, he standing on thehearthrug staring awfully in front of him.
She rushed out, collected them, and retired to the dining-room hearthrug to meet her responsibilities.
They went into the dining-room and sat down, Osborn in his chair, she on the hearthrug beside him, and she let him tell his story first, so that afterwards all his attention should be rapt on hers.
Osborn sat on the hearthrugwith shoulders against Marie's knees.
They snuggled down in the sofa blanket, and Cyril threw the fur hearthrug over them.
So they traced strange figures on the linoleum, where the hearthrug had kept it clean.
There was poor old Smuttie's grave to show her too, in one corner, for Smut had lived to enjoy a year or two of peaceful and slumberous old age on the sunny doorstep in summer and the library hearthrug in winter at Laneverel Rectory.
And Celestina quickly forgot all about it; the sight of Eleanor and Amy still reposing on the hearthrug as she replaced the kettle drove out of her mind all thoughts of the possible little Misses Vane.
When Daffy had at last gone Marjorie went back into Trafford's study and stood on the hearthrug regarding its appointments, with something of the air of one who awakens from a dream.
Presently he put coal on the fire, and then sitting on the hearthrug at her feet and looking away from her into the flames--in an attitude that took her back to his boyhood--he began to tell her brokenly and awkwardly of Marjorie.
She knelt upon the white sheepskin hearthrug at Trafford's feet one night, and told him of her desire.
When in five minutes' time he came back into her room she was still upon her hearthrug before the fire, with her necklace in her hand, the red reflections of the flames glowing and winking in her jewels and in her eyes.
The hearthrug was like a Turkey carpet, only softer, deeper, and richer.
Beth heard with surprise that the hearthrug was one which Aunt Victoria had worked herself as a present for Prentice when she married.
This compelled me to retreat to the hearthrug for reinforcements.
Lighting my pipe, and fixing my eye upon the ink and paper, I put my hands behind my back and took my departure from the hearthrug toward the Interior.
All this consumed so much time that my pipe expired in gloom, and I went back to the hearthrug to get a match off the chimney-piece.
The three people standing on thehearthrug turned sharply and two of them uttered cries which betokened pleasure mixed with relief.
We found Mr. Herapath lying across the hearthrug in his private room, quite dead.
He remained silently gazing at thehearthrug for a while; then he turned to the doctor again.
But she neither shook hands with the caller, nor asked him to sit; instead she marched across to the hearthrug and regarded him from a distance.
We’ve made new curtains and new mats, A carpet for her feet, A bedspread fit for any queen, A hearthrug worked in pink and green— It all looks very sweet.
This little hearthrug shown measures 4 inches by 2 inches, but you can make it as large as you like.
But one must have a change in the doll’s cottage sometimes, so suppose, to-day, you learn how to make a pretty carpet and hearthrug for it.
No, it was no little thing, Rochester thought to himself, as he stood upon the hearthrug of her boudoir, and listened to the woman who sat on the end of the sofa a few feet away as she talked to him.
Vandermere's face was dark as a thundercloud when his eyes fell upon the young man--carefully, almost foppishly dressed, standing upon the hearthrug in front of the open fire.
He goes back to his former place on the hearthrug with his back to the fire.
He gets up and again posts himself on the hearthrug with his back to the fire.
Show them up," commanded Diana; and, rising, stood on the hearthrug to receive them.
Then she entered the library, closed and locked the door, and stood on the hearthrug looking up at the portrait of Falcon Rivers.
The very boots on the hearthrug are whispering something about redemption.
The cat glided to the hearthrug and stretched itself upon it; I wrested my attention from the unpleasant object.
Stella Dean was lying on the hearthrug in a dead faint.
As I did not answer, she went in search of me, and finding me, as she thought, standing on the hearthrug of the parlour with my back to her, she touched me on the shoulder.
Benham, upon the hearthrugbefore the empty fireplace, considered him.
Benham stood quite motionless on the hearthrug and stared very hard at the little volume of Henley's poetry that lay upon the table.
He seized the woollen hearthrug and tried to wrap it about her; but with screams of pain and frantic struggles, Louise did her best to thwart his purpose.
Bellowing for the water which was so long in coming, he used the hearthrug to some purpose on the outskirts of the bonfire, but had to keep falling back for fresh air.
Geoffrey removes the heavy lace that lies round her throat, and then leads her up to the hearthrug nearly opposite to his mother's arm-chair.
Having partly undressed, she sits down upon the hearthrug with them, and, with both their big heads upon her lap, sits staring into the fire, trying to while away with thought the hours that must elapse before Geoffrey can return to her again.
All goes well for a week, and then they think there will be no harm in getting out an aluminium putter and practising on the hearthrug for five minutes or so in the evening.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearthrug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
