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)
Beneath is a cross launder closed by a low board.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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
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)
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