Crossword-Solution: DOORMAT 7 letters, 80 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Mis' Adkins said to Mis' Trimmer, speaking of me--because Mis' Trimmer had just asked where I was and Mis' Adkins had said I was out in the woodshed sitting with the cats and smoking--Mis' Adkins said, 'He's just a doormat, that's what he is.' Then Mis' Trimmer says, 'The way he lets folks ride over him beats me.' Then Mis' Adkins says again: 'He's nothing but a door-mat.

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him.

From her--from an Orphans' Home inmate to your own sister! And you let her walk over you, chuck you out as if you was a wornout doormat she'd wiped her boots on, and never said a word.

Yes, I remember thinking at the time that it was almost as if Leonora were saying, through me to Florence: "You may outrage me as you will; you may take all that I personally possess, but do not you care to say one single thing in view of the situation that that will set up—against the faith that makes me become the doormat for your feet." But obviously, as I saw it, that could not be her meaning.

But it was a brief caress, as if he had just remembered the strong hand and being a doormat long enough.