Chandeliers dimmed to orange flicker, spongy carpets, club chairs warm as wombs.

Chips fell white onto the spongy carpet of eons-undisturbed leaves.

On deck two, James Kirk led him through the Enterprise's sparkling corridors, the spongy carpet giving a lift to their steps, to a curved ladder that led to the lower deck.

Normally, fallen leaves make a thick, spongy carpet that is crucial to the forest.

Eagerly, Beta shuffled forward, and the uneven rock flooring gave way to a spongy carpet of moss.

The first drops of rain were hitting the spongy carpet of grass and pine needles, dark streaking and blotching on the headstones.

It seemed that the entire brotherhood of monks were seated cross-legged on this spongy carpet.

The thick green moss on the ground between the long rows of pine trees made soft spongy carpet that seemed to deaden sound.

McCoy strode in slowly, scanned the lounge, found what he was looking for, then crossed the spongy carpet and sat down in the lounge chair near the viewing windows.

Walking on a spongy, waterlogged carpet, Mario Caballero, a student adviser, pointed a flashlight into the basement gloom and shouted: "There's the television camera over there!