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  • He even described finding one Torah hidden in a metal box in Auschwitz and another in Bergen-Belsenafter partly falling through a floor-board in a World War II-era barracks.

    Alan Elsner: How We Sugarcoat The Holocaust Alan Elsner 2012

  • The first act of the film, hands down the most shocking and visually profound, is the love-child of Takashi Miike and Tobe Hooper, while the middle-act, the slow-burn creaky floor-board thriller is almost hitchcockian in tone.

    TEN of TERROR #6: Haute Tension « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • He even described finding one Torah hidden in a metal box in Auschwitz and another in Bergen-Belsenafter partly falling through a floor-board in a World War II-era barracks.

    Alan Elsner: How We Sugarcoat The Holocaust Alan Elsner 2012

  • The stillness was broken only by these whispers, or by the occasional crack of a floor-board beneath their tread.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • Thus Barnet got into a way of spending many of his leisure hours on the site of the new building, and he might have been seen on most days at this time trying the temper of the mortar by punching the joints with his stick, looking at the grain of a floor-board, and meditating where it grew, or picturing under what circumstances the last fire would be kindled in the at present sootless chimneys.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • Annie Kate said, gathering her books up from the floor-board of the car so slowly Harper thought she might just scream.

    Only You Leigh Sutherland & Peg Greenwood 1997

  • He peered at the section of floor-board revealed, reached for a powerful torch, knelt and examined the floor intently.

    The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973

  • She crossed to a corner of the room, raised a loose floor-board, placed the articles beneath it and replaced the board.

    Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

  • Fatty felt certain there was nobody at all in the house, but all the same he jumped at any moving shadow, and almost leapt out of his skin when a floor-board creaked loudly under his foot.

    The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

  • He did not confide to Flora what he had seen, but the tapping of his foot on the floor-board gave her the information as surely as any spoken word.

    Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee

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