kerb

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And none of these people riding or driving or walking, and none of the people pushing past them on the pavement behind, guessed that here on the kerb was the future master of the Chichester, an amazing man, and that she, Hilda Lessways, by his side, was the woman to whom he had chosen first to relate his triumph!

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  1. noun Chiefly British Variant of curb.

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  • The limo nosed in by the kerb, his bodyguards leapt out, and he vacated the limo and strode into the Andreotti building She breathed in slow and deep. —  CRISTIANO ANDREOTTI, the software billionaire, stood on the topmost deck of the megayacht Lestara
  • She sat on the kerb, her knees tucked up against her chest. —  AHMM,September2008
  • Rafe pulled out from the kerb, aware he had five minutes before she realised he wasn't going anywhere near the boutique. —  Helen Bianchin - The Wedding Ultimatum
  • Then I look at the gray pavements and the white kerb-stones, stainless and clean. —  Desicritics
  • So is running a brothel and persistent kerb-crawling. far from ideal; a look back at the attacks of sex workers in England reported in the media this year alone very clearly demonstrate their vulnerability - —  feminist blogs
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