There was a rattle of hoofs against the footboard as Daylight rolled over kicking wildly to get free.
He made this fact quite clear by kicking so violently that he broke two traces, cut his hocks against the footboard and lamed himself.
So he slipped from his seat to the footboard below, and ducked his head.
An eerie experience this, riding through the dark, the figures of the soldier guards on either footboard gripping to the posts of the car.
They expected him to jump on thefootboard again, for the auto was going at a slow pace, but to their surprise he did not reappear.
He leapt for thefootboard and made it by a miracle, and only once did they hear him cry as if in pain.
I'll heap 'em all on the footboardof the cart--there they are!
Take the lot on your own terms, and I'll count out two thousand seven hundred and fifty pound on the footboard of the cart, to be dropt in the streets of your magnificent town for them to pick up that can.
I am on thefootboard of my cart in the market-place on a Saturday night.
The design is carried on from the chairs to the footboard of the bed; but in their midst upon the footboard is let in this oval, easel-picture, painted on wood.
Etienne Rambert, set the baggage he was carrying down on the footboard of a first-class carriage.
The monkey, after gravely inspecting the hand which Filipe respectfully extended to him, condescended to step from the footboard of the bed upon it, and be borne from the room.
At the door Mr. Wogan climbed up to the footboard while Montague entered the house.
The one place in London where the King's Messengers will not look to find you is the footboard of Lady Oxford's carriage,' urged Montague.
But the footboard was no sufficient protection, for I could be seen over it.
Desmond was there, in his usual careless dress, hanging over the footboard of the bed, and Ann was huddled on the outside.
He rang the telegraph, and when the beat of engines slackened a man stood on a footboard outside the bridge, where a broad canvas belt was fastened round his waist.
Dropping his rod and creel, he jumped on to the footboard as the driver cautiously took the gate, and Evelyn smiled as the car rolled up the drive.
If she's not entirely herself, the drop from the footboard to the end of the trapeze ropes will be too much for her.
She'll have to ride up on the lower plane; then, after we are well clear of the ground, she'll have to drop from the footboard with the trapeze in her hands.
Old Man Hammil, on the footboard of the bed, permitted himself a series of gestures which Mr. Gooley construed as applause of this resolution.
The cockroach on the footboard wiped his front set of feet across his face sympathetically.
There was only Old Man Hammil here, shrunk to the size of a cockroach, in his rusty brown suit, looking at him from the footboard of the bed and telling him in pantomime not to kill himself.
Trent pulled a crate opposite to Mr Bunner's place on the footboardand seated himself.
Then he seated himself on the footboard of the car, his thin hands clasped between his knees, and looked keenly at the other.
Trina craned her neck and looked at her husband over the footboardof the bed.
And the tooth, the gigantic golden molar of French gilt, enormous and ungainly, sprawled its branching prongs in one corner of the room, by the footboard of the bed.
There is a hammercloth cushion in front and a footboard supported by Tritons blowing horns.
The driver's footboard is a large scollop shell, supported by a bunch of reeds, and other marine plants.
The footboard was formed by a conch shell, between two dolphins.
A footboard still remains with supports for the driver's seat that has disappeared.
Holding tightly on to the rail by the carriage-door, I began to creep along the footboard towards the engine, hoping to find a chance of dropping safely down on the line.
With these words you left me, and crept along the footboard towards the front of the train.
Trevelle, however, was too busy with his neighbour on the footboard to say anything at all.
For days and days that followed, the Sick-A-Bed Lady was conscious of nothing except the Young Man's Face on the footboard of the bed.
When the Sick-A-Bed Lady felt like sitting up high against her pillows, she could look out across the footboard through her opposite window.
It is usually suspended under the rear footboard or the rear seat.
To meet these conditions the box here illustrated is arranged so that it can be underslung beneath the rear footboard or supported on auxiliary cross members made of strap iron and attached to the side members of the chassis.
How many a poor devil has dropped from the footboard of the train just before these electric lights were reached--to take his chance of crossing the frontier before morning--history will never tell!
At last he came in sight of his home, and then, like a boy, he stood up on the footboard and vented his feelings in a delighted "Hurrah!
In a couple of minutes the footboard was like a butcher's stall, for meat enough lay there to feed the four occupants of the waggon for about a month.
At one station a soldier who was, I think, rather full of beer, hung on to the footboard outside my window and attempted to be offensive in a mixture of German and English.
At several stations other German bandsmen spoke to me out of the darkness, and sometimes they climbed up on to the footboard and attempted to enter into discussions as to who started the War.
She rested a moment or two against the footboard of the bed, her big gray eyes fixed on his vague and shadowy form.
She stood leaning against the footboard of the bed, not even deigning to raise her eyes in reply.
As she spoke she stepped backward a pace or two, resting herself for a moment against the footboard of the bed--full in the gaslight.
The sound of heavy shoes on the footboard told him that the robbers were making off.
With the pantings and gaspings of a man whose stoutness made all physical exercise irksome, the uncle lowered himself off the footboard of the tram.
When he had closed in upon this coach, the man on the footboard smiled triumphantly, yanked open the door, and flung himself within.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
