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  • He put his foot on the running-board of the pulsing car and said, “Well, so long, old man.”

    CHAPTER XXIII 2010

  • Hyde thrust head and shoulders through the window, and a well-dressed native with one foot on the running-board at the back end of the train took a long steady stare at him before jumping in and slamming the door of a third-class carriage.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • "I'll drive back, " Bluenote said, getting up on the running-board.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • His exoskeleton is programmable, so he can record little scripts for it like: move left arm to door handle, pop it, swing legs out to running-board, jump to ground, close door, move forward.

    EP038: L’Alchimista 2006

  • His exoskeleton is programmable, so he can record little scripts for it like: move left arm to door handle, pop it, swing legs out to running-board, jump to ground, close door, move forward.

    EP037: Craphound 2006

  • His exoskeleton is programmable, so he can record little scripts for it like: move left arm to door handle, pop it, swing legs out to running-board, jump to ground, close door, move forward.

    EP037: Craphound 2006

  • Littlefield lumbered over and stood with one foot up on the running-board.

    Babbit 2004

  • WHEN he was away from her, while he kicked about the garage and swept the snow off the running-board and examined a cracked hose-connection, he repented, he was alarmed and astonished that he could have flared out at his wife, and thought fondly how much more lasting she was than the flighty Bunch.

    Babbit 2004

  • She stepped daintily out of the gasolene and began scraping her slippers, side and bottom, on the running-board of the automobile.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • One leg, two legs, she steadied on the running-board, then slipped to the ground.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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