And, receiving no reply, departs, and is heard on the landing rejecting insufficient reasons why the drugget will not lay flat.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
To have a little kitchen all to yourself, to be really mistress of every corner of your house, to watch the career of your food from its very beginning, to run out into the garden and pull up anything you happened to want, to stand at the back door with your skirt full of grain and call your own chickens round you and feed them, to go yourself and look for eggs, to fill the funny little dark rooms with flowers and measure the stone-floored passage for a drugget you would presently order in the only carpet shop you had faith in, which was the one in Redchester-what pleasures did the world contain that could possibly come up to these?
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Near the Italian garden was a certain walk, with stark yew hedges on either hand, and fine grass stretched like a drugget from end to end.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung