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She bowed low to the rush mats of the room.

The floor was covered with rush mats, some of them torn up.

Rush mats, on the other hand, are smaller and laid loose.

She was running now, her bare feet slapping the rush mats.

There is a rush mat under me and it is cool against my skin.

Quickly he scooped up the beach-bag and the rush mat.

Near the door, the wizard Glenshadow lay asleep on a rush mat.

The floor was of rush mats, fresh and green-smelling.

Several women brought in blankets and rush mats.

There were rush mats on the stone floor.

The two friends shifted the barricade and took their ease on thick woven rush mats.

The black-oak surface was polished but bare, without even rush mats under the plates.

He stared out at the rushing mat of tunnel wall as if he could read something there that was only a blank to her.

Fifty yards away, under the shade of light awnings, some thirty women lay on rush mats or stood in little groups talking.

At night Omar and his family simply lay down in their robes on rush mats and slept.

The subspecies occasionally uses floating algal or rush mats, when available.

Looking around, bed, chest of drawers, upright chairs, rush mat, lamp, small mirror and that was it.

An old man sat cross-legged on a rush mat near the door of a blockhouse, smoking a long curved pipe.

He left the apartment, locked the door behind him, put the key under the rush mat, and ran down the outside steps to his converted Cadillac.

Woven rush mats on the floor deadened his footfalls.

Domestic items are characterized by a rush mat, as well as straw and kitchen utensils.

There, the phagors were made to roll their sick masters into rush mats and carry them away from the hospice.

According to Caesar, it was a cheap rush mat, but the historians are turning it into a very fine rug.

He beckoned her into a high-ceilinged room with a marble floor covered with rush mats.

The target most often used at present is the goza or tatami "omote" rush mat.

Rush matting and other objects were necessary for every day living.

The floor was of concrete, covered with a light rush matting.

Rush matting covered the stage, although this may only have been used if the setting of the play demanded it.

The weight was too much for him and it sank, slowly, until the tip rested on the rush matting.

She went to sit on the floor where the rush matting was covered by a rug and rested her back against the sofa.

"Find me some taters," said the sow in a voice low and rough as rush matting.

The flagstones were cold under her feet and the rush matting scratched her toes.

Cold winds rattled the windows of the dark "base-storey" room, and rush matting covered the floors.

The barbed goads projected just above the ground, which was covered with rush matting and scattered leaves.

Rush matting was laid over the ground, the tips of the stakes just poking through it, and leaves were sprinkled everywhere.

Lady Roscarrock glanced at her husband, whose eyes were directed firmly at the rush matting.

Floors warmed by furry white goatskins, rush matting or frankly faux marble.

Formal interiors were taken down a peg with woven rush matting and chalky paint finishes.

In a handsome installation complemented by rush matting and bamboo poles, the textiles are grouped according to type or function.

The dining-room had been covered with a thick rush matting, hard and of the beautiful, luminous, clean colour of sun-dried reeds.

All the guests, except those on Lord Torin's dais, were seated on the floor, on bleached rush matting.

Flowers and trailing plants decorated the windowsills, woven rush matting carpeted the cave and there were several large seats carved from dead logs.

He knelt before her on the rush matting, so that his face was at the same height as hers, and let one hand rest lightly on her thigh.

Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees, listening to what was being said.

Add rush matting, yellow and white gingham curtains, and watercolours of fruit and vegetables which she had done herself, and the kitchen was rustically cosy.

Stuffed toys, a guitar, an old typewriter, videocassettes, a radio, a bicycle pump attached "to a deflated inner tube, coffee mugs and a roll of rush matting.

Eventually, rush matting was used, to form a foundation onto which the stones could be tipped, a technique well known in Lincolnshire, but not so well known in Wales.

Chapter Eleven With an exclamation of impatience, Isobel rolled away from the spyhole and crouched, panting with desire, on the rush matting of her little secret room.

His eye dwelt on the white stone itself, on the votive wreath of box-sprigs placed on its top, then moved to the expanse of rush matting laid before it.

From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops, things broken, things abandoned, things stored and forgotten: broken water-jugs, wheel-less bicycles, rolls of rush matting.