low board
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If a photographer was close, he'd manage a jackknife off the low board, a rose in his buttonhole or a pretty woman on his arm.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board fence," she said.
From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
A low board table was strewn with dishes and the cold remnants of a hasty repast; benches were placed along the walls.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
There!” she gasped, as she almost fell over the low board that outlined the edge, “one more like that, and I will be mixed up with the gutter.”
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Penrose, Margaret
Only a low board fence separated his grounds from those of M. Longlade, a Frenchman, who had great influence with the savages.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various
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