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  • Sumptuously cushioned boxes with thick curtains (très privé), a hidden musicians gallery—somewhere under the floor-boards—ingenious but a bit muffled, a veritable constellation of wax candles (mon Dieu, the cost!)

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Well, to be honest, not so much jumping on, as using a Sherman Tank to slam sideways into it, then soaking the floor-boards with fermented cabbage shreds marinated in red wine vinegar infused deer urine.

    Will Durst: 100 Years of Reagan Will Durst 2011

  • Sumptuously cushioned boxes with thick curtains (très privé), a hidden musicians gallery—somewhere under the floor-boards—ingenious but a bit muffled, a veritable constellation of wax candles (mon Dieu, the cost!)

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Well, to be honest, not so much jumping on, as using a Sherman Tank to slam sideways into it, then soaking the floor-boards with fermented cabbage shreds marinated in red wine vinegar infused deer urine.

    Will Durst: 100 Years of Reagan Will Durst 2011

  • We checked around and under the seat and on the floor-boards.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • We checked around and under the seat and on the floor-boards.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • We checked around and under the seat and on the floor-boards.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • We checked around and under the seat and on the floor-boards.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • We checked around and under the seat and on the floor-boards.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • Years later, doing similar experiments at the kitchen table with her son, Max, memories of that summer would return to her in sharp-edged fragments: the cement walls and uneven floor-boards of the church classroom where they taught; one of the kids sneaking up on her and putting an ice cube down her shirt; a paper airplane sailing across the room, an invisible lemon-scented “I love you” on one of the wings.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

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