Preaching every Sunday, either from a pulpit or, if none offers, then from his own hearthrug, has always been a minor passion with Wilhelm II of Germany.
As tutor and pupil entered, they were faced by Detective Sergeant Willis of the Cambridge Police, standing with his large feet well spaced on the hearthrug, as in all proper .
Anthony Burgess in Sydney Morning Herald We have seen everything now,author Anthony Burgess wrote in England of the emerging medium, television. "That impartial eye has looked on murder; from now on there will always be the stain of a corpse on the living room hearthrug."