Example Sentences

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Carrie and Jimmy invented "a kind of a tunnel" of chairs and ironing-boards, to keep open the passage; and other boys helped eat, as they were not expected to pay.

From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)

Mrs. Gonorowsky then withdrew, leaving a kindly sentiment in Teacher's heart and an atmosphere of ironing-boards and onions in the hall.

From Little Citizens by Kelly, Myra

Examples are: key-boards, chiseling-boards, bread-boards, sleeve-boards, ironing-boards, coat- and skirt-hangers, and gouged trays.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

Finally, she constructed two forms out of the ironing-boards and some boxes.

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

She watched the clock, she watched Ben; she went in under the ironing-boards, to help him eat, although she had begun to loathe the taste of the chocolate creams.

From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)