"Footboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made a pretty, polished shelf and screwed it on to the outside of the footboard, and the boys always kept this full of blooming plants, which they changed from time to time; the head-board, too, had a bracket on either side, where there were pots of ...
— The Birds' Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... only once again that night, except to refuse the offer to ride inside the car. He preferred the footboard, he said, and explained that as a youth it had been his ambition to be ...
— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace
... promising to drive them to Dublin 'in a hurry.' Thady, the valet, proposed to accompany his young master and the young lady; and the coachman, who had a friend seemingly drunk by his side on the box, with a grin told Thady to get up behind. However, as the footboard there was covered with spikes, as a defence against the street-boys, who love a ride gratis, Thady's fidelity would not induce him to brave these; and he was persuaded to remain by the wounded chariot, for which he and the coachman manufactured ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... succeeding day, Mrs. Glass fidgeted about her shop in the agony of expectation, like a pea (to use a vulgar simile which her profession renders appropriate) upon one of her own tobacco pipes. With the third morning came the expected coach, with four servants clustered behind on the footboard, in dark brown and yellow liveries; the Duke in person, with laced coat, gold-headed cane, star and garter, all, as the story-book ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... said Mr. Barkis, always leaning forward, in his slouching way, on the footboard of the cart with ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens |
