mat quotes

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.

- George Grossmith
  The Diary of a Nobody (with Weedon Grossmith), ch.7.

   In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.

- Alexander Pope
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.229^35.