curbstones

• “They stumbled over curbstones because they were looking at my thighs.”

  The Guardian: What I bought this week: witty tights

• “It has been a tatty, poorly-maintained mess for decades and the presence of fresh bombsites on streets already lined with broken curbstones and jerry-built buildings did not make any great difference.”

  "War Crimes" Propaganda Against Israel

• “Protestants flew the Union Jack and painted their curbstones red, white, and blue; Catholics flew the Irish flag and painted their curbs orange, white, and green.”

  Double Blind

• “How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Dressed stone is used to make curbstones for streets, flagstones for roofs and walkways, and other decorative uses such as for carvings and statues.”

  Dimension stone

• “The two solid side-walls of the archway were covered, to a height of six feet, with a permanent dado of mud formed of the splashes from the gutter; for, in those days, the foot passenger had no protection from the constant traffic of vehicles and from what was called the kicking of the carts, but curbstones placed upright at intervals, and much ground away by the naves of the wheels.”

  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

• “The streets and cars were surfaced in ash and there were garbage bags stacked high at curbstones and against the sides of buildings.”

  Simon & Schuster: Falling Man

• “The street and cars were surfaced in ash and there were garbage bags stacked high at curbstones and against the sides of buildings.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

• “We're in a black Toyota Land Cruiser, which is inappropriate for the city, but Patrick needs a big vehicle, otherwise he'd have nowhere to keep his collection of curbstones.”

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

• “Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.”

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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