1.   A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor, and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.

2.   Honor had written to ask for some threadbare rugs to be replaced.

3.   A threadbare rug and a cracked platter are nothing if you have a little music, an open fire and some books to live by.

4.   The floor is covered with a threadbare rug, the walls with bright cloths.

5.   Threadbare rugs air on the balconies of squalid houses.