"Footboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a reply, he commenced his survey of the coach, while I gently restrained our two companions from shadowing him, as they were disposed to do. The off-side footboard occupied his attention specially, and when he had scrutinized minutely the part opposite the fatal compartment, he walked slowly from end to end with his eyes but a few inches from its surface, as though ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... along the footboard of the bunk till his fingers touched the bottle, drew it out from its hiding-place—he hid it because stray callers would have made short work of it—and, placing the uncorked bottle to his trembling ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... in bed when he went up-stairs. Through the door of his dressing-room he could see her lying, surrounded by papers. Natalie's handsome bed was always covered with things, her handkerchief, a novel, her silk dressing-gown flung over the footboard, sometimes bits of dress materials and lace. Natalie did most of her planning ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... surrounded by a crowd of noisy children who clung to the footboard and hung on the back and made themselves into a noisy escort until the tenement was reached. There Drusilla and Mrs. Harris climbed three flights of stairs. In answer to the knock, a soft voice said, Entre lei, and they ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... cried the little Irishman, and when he ran back to climb to the footboard of the 956, Adair ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... the footboard of the bed, Like a confiding child she snuggled her shoulder under his arm and drew the arm around her. What was he to ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... blood between us. She irritated and embarrassed me. I tried to think of something to say, and uttered a few words, which were uncommonly trivial and awkward. Mr. Somers touched on politics. The door opened, and Ben's brother entered, with downcast eyes. Advancing to the footboard of the bed, he leaned his chin on its edge, looked at his father, and in a remarkably ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... was leaving the room when she said, 'Listen a moment, Jane. The man entered angrily, and leaning on the footboard of the bed cried out, "So you've been at your old tricks once more, Susanna! This is the third time. You are a bad woman. I will never live with you again. I am going away forever, and I'll take little Willy with me. If you aren't fit to be a mother, you aren't fit to ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... the other day," said Charlie, sitting down on the footboard of the bed, and swinging his heels while he talked. "Grant told me about it. Wang made a mistake and threw away all her soup she'd made, just before dinner; and when she scolded him for it, he said he 't'ought 'twas dish-water.' ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... pot. There were shelves, some filled with stock-in-trade, others with miscellaneous things, the nature of which he could not distinguish in the gloom. Barney Bill presently turned and dumped an armful of books on the footboard an inch or two below Paul's nose. Paul scanned the title pages. They were: Goldsmith's "Animated Nature," "Enquire Within Upon Everything," an old bound volume of "Cassell's Family Reader," "The Remains of Henry Kirke White," ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... a coloured shirt and red gloves—did not deny the sportsman. His legs, which pressed against the footboard, were clad in ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann
... pricked the vehicle unexpectedly and shamefully behind. And from this point Mr. Britling, driving with meticulous care, got home without further mishap, excepting only that he scraped off some of the metal edge of his footboard against the gate-post of his ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... to Jimmy, and Zoie flew toward the bed, almost vaulting over the footboard in her hurry to get ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo
... arm above this hand was clad in striped blue and white gingham; a full white apron fell just at the limit of my sidewise vision. I was far too weak to raise my eyes, but it occurred to me that this must be my landlady, for I recognised the footboard of my bed. And yet it was not at all like my room. The arm-chair was gone, the books were gone, the student lamp was gone, although it was my sitting-room. Then why was the bed there? I frowned impatiently and then the white apron lowered itself, a white collar appeared, and above ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... sleepyhead, and no alarm clock would ever wake him. But this was an exceptional day, and, besides, Reddy was quite an original chap. He had taken one of the borrowed roosters into his room the night before, and when, early in the morning, Mr. Chanticleer had mounted the footboard of the bed, flapped his wings and given vent to his opinion of a boy who persisted in sleeping at that late hour of the day, the noise was too much ...
— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond
... gasp of shame, Theodora realized that she had been crying aloud in her excitement, while the blurred scratches on the ice showed that she had been flying about the group in a futile distraction. With a groan of self-disgust, she dropped down on the footboard of Billy's chair. ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... had not left, though it was just in motion. I had no time to take a ticket, but leaping upon the moving footboard, I wrenched open a carriage-door and ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne |
