What is "carpets"

Usage examples of "carpets".

Abdullah was quite often able to buy best-quality carpets before anyone else saw them, and sell them at a profit, too.

My reading suggests these carpets were meant to be used quickly in an emergency, so the word will not be anything too out of the way.

But by the early evening Abdullah had sold all his best carpets for nearly twice as much as he had paid for them.

The smell of it, the cedarwood and the spices and the hairy, oily scent of carpets, was so familiar that if he shut his eyes, he could imagine he was ten years old again, playing behind a roll of carpet while his father bargained with a customer.

Abdullah himself, when he was not visiting one of the public parks, usually sat on a pile of his less good carpets in the shade in front of his stall, drinking fruit juice, or wine if he could afford it, and chatting lazily with Jamal.

O best and most elegant of carpets, I think now only of you and how best I might rid you of this great weight.

He had Midnight wrapped around one arm, kicking and scratching and biting, and demonstrating in every way she could that cats and flying carpets do not mix.

An error in a grimoire on flying carpets might end you up in Boston, Oregon, instead of Boston, Mass.

I peered around the carpets ahead of me, trying to figure out what had gone wrong this time.

Right behind them were a couple of plainweave carpets that carried plainclothes constables.

We had to wait for all the southbound carpets to go past before we could turn, though.

Strange how rules of the road that were codified for horses in Europe long before anyone outside the Middle East was flying carpets still govern the way we handle traffic.

As I undid my safety belt and stood up, I noticed that a lot of the carpets in the lot were old and threadbare.

The rooms were generous, sumptuous with woven carpets and pillows, all wrought in intricate designs.

Spectroscopy revealed that the surface water was full of intriguing molecular debris, but guessing the relationship of any of it to the living carpets was like trying to reconstruct flesher biochemistry by studying their ashes.