boot scraper

The steps for the men can also be identified by the boot scraper at the bottom.

None of my women has been a boot scraper.

She felt her way across the little room, almost tripping over a boot scraper, and found an inner door.

He hauled the boot scraper out from where it lay forgotten at the side of the house.

Another pair of dogs, dachshund-shaped iron boot scrapers, sat for years on the front stoop.

"You," said Winnie to the boot scraper hedgehog, "might as well make a statement.

Note the chair and boot scraper from the First Mint and other exciting artifacts.

Beside it was a boot scraper.

He had picked up the boot scraper hedgehog to fold the drop cloths back nearer the wall.

The artists played with utilitarian objects, like an iron boot scraper, which an anonymous blacksmith gave the shape of a hen.

There was a cast-iron boot scraper at the top of the steps, and on the front door a brass lion's-head knocker.

Metallic artifacts include hand-wrought pieces, small iron chains, a boot scraper, and 19th century building hardware.

To avoid this muck being tramped into the houses, Boot Scrapers were commonly placed outside their front doors.

From boot scrapers to bricked-up phantom parlor entries to attic skylights, I have come to know its physiognomy intimately over time.

This grew into a collection that now numbers about 1,000 pieces, everything from soup tureen and boot scraper to Baccarat and 18th-century bronze.

They had reached the back door and the muddle of trugs and boot scrapers and milk-bottle crates that lay outside it.

The mud that we daily track indoors, defying doormats, boot scrapers and designated mud rooms, becomes dirt the moment it crosses the threshold.

She glanced over her shoulder to be sure no one was near, but the slaves were talking loudly in the foyer, arguing over a misplaced boot scraper.

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A cast-iron boot scraper in the shape of a dog costs $33 from the Cumberland General Store, Route 3, Crossville, Tenn. 38555; 615-484-8481.

After using the boot scraper and brush, Alucius stepped into the front foyer, its floor tiled in ceramic tile, with a geometric design in dark green, black, and silver.

Attempting to find their way home, Rat and Mole quite literally stumble across Badger's home - Mole barks his shin upon the boot scraper on Badger's doorstep.

A scroll-shaped iron boot scraper, 6 inches high by 11 1/2 inches long by 10 1/2 inches deep, is $42 from the Charleston Gardens catalog, (800) 469-0118, or www.charlestongardens.com.

The entryway of the inn was a conventional mud room, barely lit by an overhead lamp; boot scrapers mounted on the floor to make a first pass at the mud, grass mats farther in to catch the remnants.

My father would sit in the old iron lawn chair with his leg stretched out in front of him and propped up slightly on an ostentatious boot scraper that Grandma Lynn had found in a curio shop in Maryland.