Sentence examples for footboard from inspiring English sources

In the further course of that journey, he was beaten up by the white driver of a stagecoach because he would not travel on the footboard to make room for a European passenger, and finally he was barred from hotels reserved "for Europeans only".

In the 18th dynasty (c. 1567 1320 bce) beds sloped up toward the head, and a painted or carved wooden footboard prevented the sleeper from slipping down.

The bed was grand, with a white tufted leather headboard and footboard, and matches the large chaise.

A bed has only half a footboard; a chest has different size knobs on each drawer, which turns opening the drawers into a conscious, tactile act.

The duplex rooms looked out over the city; one chamber had a bed with a flat-screen television that levitated electronically from a hidden nook in the footboard.

The girl's body was emaciated and covered with bruises on her head, torso and limbs, and "ligature marks" were found on her feet, apparently from where her mother affixed them to the bed's footboard with twine, the complaint said.

From about the 6th century bce, the legs projected above the couch frame; these projections became headboards and footboards, the latter eventually made lower than the headboards.

It shows a woman asleep in a large bed with black carved head- and footboards, a book lying next to her on the bed.

The long footboards have both horizontal and forward-angled sections that offer varied positions for your feet.

The clapboard-style farmhouse retains its original pine floors and wood-burning stove, while a mix of furnishings — including mirrored side tables, rattan headboards and footboards, and landscape paintings by the local artist Ken Fuller — lend bedrooms a modern coziness.

You're very low - it's the lowest-slung bike in its class - and the first time you take a bend and scrape the footboards you realise this calls for a different style of riding.