"Kerb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answering and stood on the kerb, ready to help her out. She delayed so long that the driver ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... and to that end took a few steps slowly up the street and returned yet more slowly. She looked into the window again; Julian was alone now, and still she hesitated. The admiring comments of two loungers on the kerb concerning her appearance at last determined her, and she brusquely thrust open the door. A little bell jangled shrilly above it ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... The kerb was removed during the Second Empire. Moreover it is admitted that no faith should be put in such traditions. G. de Cougny, Charles VII et Jeanne d'Arc a ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... they were not disappointed in their wish to see the Grand Old Man, for Mr. Garratt's shop does not boast of a back-door through which fame can escape its penalties. On coming out, Mr. Gladstone, looking, as a working man standing on the kerb expressed it, 'as straight as a new nail,' received quite an ovation, the people waving their hats and cheering vigorously as he drove away in a cab. Mr. Gladstone's marked catalogues are a familiar and a peculiarly welcome feature with second-hand booksellers, ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts
... was jolted with surprise at finding a new business in full operation on one of the chief sites on Main Street. The new Catteline-Harvard car was standing at the kerb before the door, shrieking its newness. A great sign over the door told the world at large, and in no uncertain manner, that the Langford-Ralston Financial Corporation was doing business below. The two windows were a dainty display of the show-card writers' art, hanging above and around a miniature ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
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