The body consisted of a seat with sides, back, and footboard, wide enough to accommodate two persons with ease.

I resolved never to travel on the footboard, if I could help it, again.

Next morning they resumed their journey, and halted one night more before they reached Tepellene, in approaching which they met a carriage, not inelegantly constructed after the German fashion, with a man on the box driving four-in-hand, and two Albanian soldiers standing on the footboard behind.

Hadad went to the rear of the train, climbing along the footboard of the third-class cars to the caboose to throw some sort of bluff to the conductor, who came forwardcalled me "Colonel" and Hadad "Excellency" looked our prisoners overrecognized no friendsand said that everything was "quite all right."

And when he had all their valuables he laid them on the footboard, and then, as we passed some Bedouin tents, he kicked them off.

His bathrobe still hung on a peg; his other pair of suspenders dangled over the footboard; and his shaving brush, with dried lather on it, was on the floor.

Graham, meantime, bent against the footboard of the bed, watching with anxious eyes.

Slipping into the lavatory she climbed through the window there on to the footboard, and pulled herself along by the carriage rods to the next compartment where the solitary occupant, an Englishman, sat reading.

He immediately pulled the alarm cord to stop the train, and hurried along the footboard to the assistance of the ladies.

"Holloway Prisonmain entrance," I said, as I stepped up on to the footboard.

The mulatto girl had come swiftly to the foot of the bed and was clutching the footboard, her knuckles showing white.

But on my unsophisticated dickey and footboard no one could doubt but that Roger and Simon were in their proper places.

"A few months afterward, as I lay in my bed too weak even to stir, your father stood there, looking across the footboard at me,the answer to that letter.

I framed the question in German as I clambered on to the footboard at a part of the train where the trucks ended and where German officers had been given the luxury of first-class carriages.

There is now at Aix-la-Chapelle a huge state-bed-stead, on the posts, sides, and footboards of which it is elaborately carved, in the manner of the sixteenth century; and it was even made the ornament of ladies' fans.

Aunt Phoebe was sitting up in bed still screaming at the top of her lungs, and on the footboard of the bed sat Snowy, blinking in the sudden light.

An extra blanket over the footboard, in our changeful climate, is a wise measure.

there was Khaki on the foot of the bed, close against the footboard, fast asleep.

Advancing to the footboard of the bed, he leaned his chin on its edge, looked at his father, and in a remarkably clear, ringing voice, said: "The check.

Desmond was there, in his usual careless dress, hanging over the footboard of the bed, and Ann was huddled on the outside.

The brasswork of the engine shines brilliantly, the footboard has been newly scrubbed, and the driver and stoker stand waiting for the signal.