| 单词 | floorboard |
| 例句 | Before lunch Briony slipped away to the empty rehearsal room—the nursery—and walked up and down on the painted floorboards, considering her casting options. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He tried to sit up, but Frankie stepped on his chest and pushed him down against the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At the Middle Dutch Church they pulled out the pulpit, the pews, and the floorboards and let the horses of the Light Dragoons practice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the aisle Alvin Hooks rested his chin in his hands, drumming the floorboards with the heel of his shoe, impatient but not dissatisfied. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But Aunt Petunia didn’t know what was hidden under the loose floorboard upstairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I dropped off the windowsill like I’d been shoved, crawled across the floorboards, and switched off the main light. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We tiptoe through the darkness, the floorboards creaking loudly beneath our feet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I hear the step, quiet as mine, the creaking of the same floorboard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards are stacked neatly against the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The ladder groaned beneath my weight but held, and within moments my feet were on worn floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He sprinted upstairs and threw himself under the bed, wrenching up the loose floorboard, and grabbed the pillowcase full of his books and birthday presents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But I’d spent part of the afternoon helping tidy up around Shady’s place and now I wanted to be alone to look through the Lucky Bill cigar box I’d found under the floorboards. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I bring him water, and now Max is putting back the floorboards, Mrs. Bessermann stroking the pieces of dirt from Cesia’s hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z You stand perfectly still on the old floorboards. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The toes of my shoes scraped against the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As a small, worried child, he hid pennies under a floorboard—a “hoard” to protect his family if “evil times” came. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We tested the floorboards, guessing at who might have used the passage and for what reasons. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I hand Max the floorboards to set back in place, and look around. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was broken crockery scattered among the remains of furniture and charred floorboards. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The links slithered and turned and grew taut, and Arya heard the creak of old dry wood as the great iron rings strained against the floorboards of the wagon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There, surrounded by the sweet scent of old motor oil, I lay down on the floorboards next to a gutted transmission and passed out. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Susan Maries engine wheezed twice below the floorboards, then coughed, rattled, and fired up when Carl backed down the choke. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My feet were numb from the vibration of the floorboards. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When it didn’t, the halls filled up with the scent of Hamburger-and-Pepper Surprise, a scent that lingered like the smell of a dead animal caught underneath the floorboards. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “I hear there’s a bunch of snakes in the cellar,” the first policeman said.“And the floorboards are rotten in some of the rooms.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Inside a Gemini, I can touch my head against the hatch and my feet against the floorboards at the same time, without having to stretch. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mothers postcards and her hair are still beneath the floorboards in my room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But then the floorboards creaked, and they all turned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Most of the banisters and railing had given way, and the floorboards had turned spongy and slick with mold and algae. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But this whole thing about Jack retrieving the glove and not telling anybody, then hiding it beneath a floorboard in his and JonJon’s shared childhood bedroom? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Under the floor of the queen’s sister’s hut was a beehive, and we would sometimes take up a floorboard or two and feast on its honey. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a loud bump from the bedroom, like one of the floorboards fell or was dropped back into place, and Mrs. Krajewska’s eyes dart to the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Sirius’s letters, which were now hidden beneath the highly useful loose floorboard under Harry’s bed, sounded cheerful, and in both of them he had reminded Harry to call on him if ever Harry needed to. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The lino was irregular offcuts from downstairs, and in places, gray floorboards showed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And finally, slowly, ever so slowly, Stella tiptoed across the floor, carefully avoiding the floorboard that she knew would creak. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I had got no further when I heard the scrum of shoes upon the floorboards of the kitchen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My toes curled at the thought of crossing the icy floorboards on a dark December morning. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards were pocked with holes where knots had fallen out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a weight thrumming through the floorboards in a low song, and that was how Jam knew the painting was done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I remember the way Day had crawled under the floorboards. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z So I shift the mattress to the right and find the floorboard that Charlie wants me to find. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My Oxo tin's hidden under a loose floorboard where my bed was. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He cut his thumb so deeply on the last piece that blood dripped to the wooden floorboards. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They shoved at the door as the smoke continued to billow through the floorboards, and the fire spread wider, roaring as it went. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The floorboards had been treated with varnish or paint, which bubbled in the fire’s heat and turned as sticky as flypaper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The shifting of the floorboards in the night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But Miss Wren was quick, and she leapt up and managed to catch Miss Peregrine by her hind leg and thump her down against the floorboards again, which made the children gasp even louder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The only sign of Nick there was the blood stain he had left on the floorboards. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The solenoid kicked in immediately; the engine stuttered once and then began to idle roughly, rattling frantically beneath the floorboards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Elinor knelt down on the floorboards, on the wood she had so carefully chosen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I picked Juanita’s backpack off the floorboard, unzipped it, and started pulling everything out of it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He was so weak the floorboards seemed to roll beneath him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Nita’s footsteps creak on the floorboards inside, and when I turn she is standing right behind me, her hands buried in her pockets. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Looking at the boys, under whose chairs water was pooling before spilling between the floorboard cracks, she knew they could never understand her ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Giggling, she shook his hand and sauntered away, the fringe of her dress whispering against the floorboards. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Even though I tiptoe, the dishes in the sideboard jangle, the floorboards groan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then I grab my phone off the floorboard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z On the way to San Antonio, Beto rode on the back floorboards with a blanket over him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I look under the second bed, and one of the floorboards pushes up just a little. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He looked at the neat carpet, the polished floorboards, and took his shoes off too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was eight centimeters taller than me, but he could move so silently sometimes, like he wasn’t walking on the same cheap, groaning floorboards as the rest of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Anya struggled to her cold feet, eyes wide as smoke began to seep through the floorboards into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked, complaining of Papa’s pacing “Sweden is preferable,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I kicked off my shoes and felt the cool floorboards shift and groan beneath my feet as if the room was adjusting to sudden occupation after being long empty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The blackened floorboards crumbled under her feet, burned away to bare stone in some places. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked as she came over to my side of the bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She knew she shouldn’t act so petulant, but she wanted to go back to sleep, not run around in the middle of the night looking for noisy floorboards. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I felt trapped again, like I had felt under the floorboards and down in the salt mine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They were very quiet sounds: a chair being lifted and replaced, a short whisper, the creak of a floorboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked down the hallway, floorboards creaking under my feet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He’d looked at the floorboards of the porch for a moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It takes some work and a few splinters, but I manage to get enough of a grip to lift the floorboard.... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I left the box under the floorboard for safekeeping and checked to make sure the compass was still around my neck. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The last room she looked at had, she supposed, once been a bedroom; she could imagine that the rectangular dust shadow on the floorboards had once been a bed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It still needs a roof and wiring, plumbing and floorboards, plus a lovely shade of paint. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Leroy pressed the gas pedal to the floorboard, and the speedometer dial spun around and around before it fluttered at 65. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked under his tread as he paced up and down outside the locked door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The naked light- bulbs that hung irregularly from the stained ceiling cast a weak yellow light upon the warped floorboards. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I fold up the note, stick it in my pocket, replace the foot-long floorboard, and hammer it in with the heel of my hand, then I shift the mattress over again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Moisture bulged from between the floorboards at my feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He kept ’em hid under the floorboards wrapped up in a fancy piece of thick purple curtain that had beautiful gold tassels sewed on ’longside the fringe. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I remember those first days so clearly, walking around, shoeless, feeling the warmth of wooden floorboards underfoot, relishing the space, the emptiness of all those rooms waiting to be filled. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey looked down at the floorboards of the little boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark and cool in the shop, with the low wood beams and the painted floorboards. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She knew every splinter and crack in each of the thirty wooden floorboards. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes on the leaf-covered floorboards of the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Set into the floorboards was a large metal ring. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z James’s floorboards had creaked earlier, so she knew he was home, but there was no way she’d ask for his help now. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z James’s floorboards had creaked earlier, so she knew he was home, but there was no way she’d ask for his help now. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Underneath my feet, a grit of black soil spread across the floorboards, creeping from the darkness under the empty cots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The schoolroom is plain, but the wall paint is fresh and the wooden floorboards newly oiled and the desks worn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I even walk around, bouncing lightly on each floorboard in hopes that one might be loose. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She sat still, looking down at the floorboards, too stunned to cry. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In a crack between the floorboards I finally find the key. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Frost put his hand down into the empty space where the floorboard had been. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z From a knot in a floorboard, a fresh, new and very solid sapling had sprouted, about a foot tall. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The floorboards creak as I shift my weight and stall. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We all hear a creak and scrape across the floorboards above our heads. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But a floorboard was loose, the nails having missed their targets underneath. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Max moves the floorboards to one side, slides on his stomach beneath the bed and into the hole, Siunek going after, though it takes him longer. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Somewhere, a mouse scuttled across floorboards and under a door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There were three bedrooms upstairs, Erma said, but no one had been to the second floor in nigh on ten years, because the floorboards were rotted through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The long hall at the top of the stairs was paneled with a honey-colored wood, the same as the floorboards. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He knelt down and took the small stone out of his pocket, making a mark on the floorboards next to the others. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z With my left I claw the floorboards so desperately the wood peels off, under my nails. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Alvin Hooks skirted the edge of his table and resumed the slow, fluid pacing of the floorboards that had been part of his strategy all morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mom and Lori admired the wide-planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers have found them—they've broken through the floorboards and dug them out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In these close quarters, I was unable to back up without the risk of ensnaring myself in the ropes or breaking my ankle in one of the gaps between the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then the unmistakable dancing of flame winked between the floorboards. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the corner of the room by the big window, there was a loose floorboard that the twins had pried up five years earlier when they were convinced that a treasure was hidden underneath. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My father’s voice drifted up a crack in the floorboards. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He scrambled backward along rough wooden floorboards, crying out again, this time at the pain shooting up from his right foot. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They had wooden floorboards, something I had never seen before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Minutes later, from the nursery again, energetic scuffling and something hard rattling across the floorboards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I got out of bed, put on my slippers, and slid around the perimeter of the room, careful to avoid the floorboard in the middle that cracked like a pistol shot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Meggie heard them running over the wooden floorboards above them, back and forth, jumping, sliding, giggling, and squealing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z To give Ma a little com-fitting, I went to the shed and reached under the floorboards to get Pap’s pistol. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It is a room dominated by heavy beams and rafters, and the floorboards have no carpet or rug to cover them, and yet the atmosphere is surprisingly cosy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I was half-way up the back staircase, carrying a fully laden tray, when I heard the sound of angry footsteps rattling the floorboards somewhere below me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Their sudden movement knocked something loose in me and I found my voice again and shouted for them to wait, but they were already pounding the floorboards toward the door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The blood rushed to Tayo’s head and he felt around the floorboards blindly for the opener. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A soft creak in the floorboards compelled Marigold to look up from her music book. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I wanted to sink the gas pedal into the floorboard and peel out of there, but he had other ideas. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I scanned the framed photographs on the walls, the old wooden floorboards creaking under my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I could feel the floorboards shaking as Matthew stormed out of the room, but Sergeant Caputo wasn’t intimidated. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Something or someone had landed heavily on the wooden floorboards. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I stare at the crack in the floorboards right in front of me, at the dust that has gathered there over time, and wait for a reaction, any reaction. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In the waiting, she fell asleep herself, startling awake only when she heard the floorboards singing a song she hadn’t heard before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I play out the plan for the hundredth time and then I hear a creak on the loose floorboard outside my door and my remembered heart flies to my throat. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was the scent of lemon blossoms, fresh-scrubbed floorboards, and the sweat of hard work. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Silver moonlight spills through the window, illuminating the floorboards. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I push the wonky floorboard back into place, then stand up to tap it with my stick. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Most of all, though, he cursed the skunks under his floorboards whose perpetual low-key stink was driving him insane—his eyes continually watered, his nostrils had become raw and almost bloody. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The tight little crawl space under the floorboards suddenly felt like a coffin, like I was already dead and buried. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I heard Millard’s bare feet slap away across the floorboards, and the door swung shut behind him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Harry watched her out of sight, then crawled under his bed, wrenched up the loose floorboard, and pulled out a large chunk of birthday cake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I pushed aside my chair and squatted, placing my palms upon the floorboards. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The tricky part will be finding the loose floorboard—if it’s still loose—and getting it lifted so we can see underneath it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Unhinging his jaw, the dwarf pointed himself torpedo-like through the hole in the floorboards. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This place stinks like rotting wood, and the floorboards creak like they are going to crack open under us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The daylight coming through the floorboards was enough to make me wish I had a little fat on me so I wouldn’t slide right through to the ground. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They were walking across bare earth, dry and cool to the touch; overhead there were heavy wooden beams holding up the floor, and above those the floorboards themselves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It opened silently, and as she stepped in, she felt Pet’s presence accumulate, the loudness of it growling through the floorboards and into the soles of her feet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They sat on concrete footings, with about two feet of open space between the floorboards and the ground. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I edged around the noisy floorboard in the middle of the room and opened my door as quietly as I could, but it creaked loudly in the cold. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I hear the floorboards creak beneath her feet, then the door shutting softly behind her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I can’t figure what to do about it, so I climb in the boat and pull up the floorboards and look at it from that side. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Before I can even register my own movements, I’m on my knees, phone light aimed at the ceiling, trying to get my fingernails under the loose floorboard. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I heard his voice sailing along the floorboards of the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My own feet felt as light as feathers as I stepped over the floorboards, and I wondered if it was her miraculous tonic making me feel so weightless and swift. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I took the paper and made a big show of smoothing out the wrinkles on the tree house floorboards. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The men file into the living room, not even having had time to get the floorboards away from the bunker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The floorboards sagged, and the wooden pews had been rubbed smooth by all the bodies that had slid across them over the years. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He beat the floorboards with such force that I thought he might break his hand. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Is there a body buried in the garden or shoved under the floorboards? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When I see the desk and dresser against the far wall, it occurs to me that the loose floorboard could be beneath a heavy piece of furniture I won’t be able to move. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “In the back of my closet,” I said, “under the floorboards. I put something there, and I’ve got to have it.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Footsteps landed on the floorboards in the hallway, precise, unhurried steps. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes stepped quickly to his mother’s room, gaining anger with every creaky floorboard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Mami balanced on the floorboards to her bed, lay me beside her, held me tight, kissed my forehead, my eyes, and murmured, “It’s all right. It’s over. It’s all right.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z By those mementos I’d found under the floorboard—the Wiggle King lure, the Liberty Head silver dollar, Shady’s cork, and the tiny nesting doll—I was connected to this place and those people. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Adam looked down at the floorboards, and all four chanted in unison, “Brake on—advance gas—switch off.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mouschi’s gotten into the habit of relieving herself on some newspapers or between the cracks in the floorboards, so we have good reason to fear the splatters and, even worse, the stench. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She walks a circle around the Grand Gallery, navigating between squeaking floorboards; she hears feet tramp up and down museum staircases, a toddler squeal, the groan of a weary grandmother lowering herself onto a bench. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Delaying it for four years while True Belle came and took over but remembering the floorboards as a door, closed and locked. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Our old pipes notify me as Mom begins to do the dishes after work, and the floorboards announce her as she climbs the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Worse, someone had pulled up the floorboards so nothing remained except the frame. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I hear a floorboard squeak and see an older man in a brown cardigan shuffling into the room with his arms held behind his back. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There was one small, slatted floorboard and this was floating. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She can hear him cross the floorboards above her and turn on the transmitter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Small slivers of light come from between the floorboards in the rooms above me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It wasn’t her house, it wasn’t as if she could listen to the floorboards talk and trace the secrets. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The floorboard pops up, and just like the other one, there’s a space underneath. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I heard a creaking floorboard in the hallway outside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to ignore the strange X on my family's door and make my way directly to the floorboards lining the side of the porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Putting my feet back on the floor, I again felt the floorboards creak and bow. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As prisoners began to come back into the barracks, we pushed our way out, hurriedly replacing the floorboard and sitting down on my bunk like we had just come back from work. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They returned to an empty, dark house, and Ash and Gwen climbed the stairs to their attic room slowly, their feet heavy on the worn wooden floorboards. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucked behind a baseboard or stashed in a compartment beneath the floorboards or plastered up inside a wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then a floorboard creaked right over my head and a little shower of plaster dust sprinkled down. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Ray sniffs around too, especially over in the living room where all the furniture is missing and there are new floorboards. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the loft that night, Dallas and Florida added two sweet rolls and two apples to their stash beneath a loosened floorboard. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf aimed his scything jaws skyward, punching through the floorboards. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Right above me, the floorboard creaks as someone walks across the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was this last piece that slipped from Mariam’s fingers, that fell to the wooden floorboards of the kolba and shattered. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I knelt on the floor, and with a fairly easy push and pull, the floorboard popped up enough for me to get my fingers under it and pull it up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Calder opened his mouth when the 5:38 train went by, rattling the windows, making the floorboards bounce, and filling the kitchen with the whoosh-whoosh of passing steel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Skilled at creeping under floorboards and behind skirting boards, they infest houses. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I swept it up from the kitchen floor and wrapped it in a plastic bag and hid it beneath the floorboards of my room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I remember looking down toward the instructor’s feet as we circled him, seeing the white smoke as it began to swirl over the wooden floorboards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I walked, I built it back up with prayer, hung the door on its creaky hinges, nailed the floorboards down, fitted the transoms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Where I hid my Omega is a work of genius and second in security only to my Oxo tin under the loose floorboard. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Only when we went to pack up Minerva’s things for her move, did I remember you stashed under the closet floorboards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards were plastered with mud, apparently from a recent flash flood. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, Hazel fell asleep to the sound of icy water lapping against the rocks under the floorboards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked as Father began to pace. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She tried to stay on top of the sewing and to keep dust from gathering in the cracks between the floorboards. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Kev walked over to an uneven patch of floorboards next to the fireplace, where a mangy dog lay sleeping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The floorboards from the desk to the front door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We held on to the floorboards to keep from bouncing around. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As we round a curve, the floorboards jerk beneath us, throwing us together so our shoulders touch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The captain stared at her for a long moment—long enough for her to wish she could swallow her words and disappear into the floorboards—but she did not look away. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She moved into a small house on Fowler Avenue in the Hayti area, full of rotting floorboards and holes in the walls big enough to allow birds in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I would never hide under the floorboards again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I noticed Jonas kept track of the children, making marks with a stone on the floorboard of the car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When they heard a button ping against the floorboards, they had to suppress their grins and look away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Pry up the floorboards,” orders Volkheimer, but after Neumann Two pries up several and peers down, it’s clear that the only thing under the boards is decades-old horsehair for insulation. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then I replaced the floorboard and crawled into bed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She heard frightening bird shrieks and the dry sounds of something moving under the floorboards. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z But without the ball, without the floorboards under my feet, without the mid-court line that takes me halfway home, you can get to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The wooden floorboards creak no matter where you step on them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards creak with every step, and it smells like a whole lot of mold. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The wooden floorboards, shiny from heavy use, glowed with a dark-brown warmth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that Noah was gently picking up the trembling slave girl, moving her to the other side of the wagon and placing her on a blanket that lay wrinkled on the rough floorboard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He jerked the opener out of Tayo’s hand and it fell on the floorboards. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Lola was pacing the floorboards, one hand to her brow as she skimmed through the first pages of the play, muttering the lines from the prologue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Beto watched the square of light move half the width of a floorboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she ran to the living room and started pressing the floorboards near the door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The worn floorboards ribbled the soles of my feet through my socks. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Beyond their own voices they could hear, drifting down the drafty halls, a frenetic, muted tapping—the sleepless Number Two on her computer keyboard—and from somewhere above them the occasional creak of a floorboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She walked every inch of the little cabin, touching all the floorboards with her toes, feeling for a loose panel. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He stands on tiptoe, holding the edge of a floorboard with his fingertips and peering upward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Eden sits on the floor, drawing some sort of loopy shape on the floorboards. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I hoped the floorboards wouldn’t give me away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He reached for his zipper pouch on the floorboard, where he kept most of his firewood earnings for the night. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Just the thought of saying the words out loud makes me feel so heavy I could break through the floorboards. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z After deciding upon the car, I got inside and ate the tuna sandwiches and then searched the floorboards for holes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood seeped from the entry and exit wounds in his neck and pooled under his head, staining the floorboards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Light snores curl out from beneath her door as I let myself into Lucy’s room, careful to avoid any creaking floorboards, and begin to search through my mother’s piles. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Cletus had been investigating the Chevy because he thought there might be some old newspapers lining its floorboards. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z A stack of new floorboards was suspended between cinder blocks near the door. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath her bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At that moment, they heard the thud of a cane on the thin wooden floorboards, and an old man hobbled around the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And I return to my floorboard, shove it into the crack, and make a lever. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Its floorboards spoke with every step we took whenever we were inside the house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z My plan is to bang the end of the stick, which is about the length of Daddy’s walking cane, against each floorboard to see if any of them sound hollow underneath. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z And I think someone is coughing beneath the floorboards. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He stopped, hesitated, then he said, “I found a letter. Upstairs. It was hidden under a loose floorboard.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Orders whispered sharp and quiet—boats hauled back onto their racks, oars put away, all of it carefully dried off with dust sheets, which we hid beneath the floorboards afterward. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The sun beat down on the tent, and the dust found its way through the floorboards of the wagon. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The well-worn floorboards creaked beneath his feet, but that didn't wake any of the others. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z No normal adult would believe in tiny people who lived under the floorboards. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The heat was fiercely intense and blinding, and in his rush to flee, Sullivan slipped on the uneven floorboards and fell with a thud. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I found them in a Lucky Bill cigar box under a loose floorboard,” I answered a little too quickly, and it made me sound guilty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I ran back to Shady’s place, clomped up the wooden steps to my room, and reached under the floorboard for the Lucky Bill cigar box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She said, “Boy been standing in that corner so much these pass few years he done wore a spot out in the floorboards.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked as Hugo tiptoed toward a door on the far side of the chapel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After a moment, a creak of floorboards and the footsteps going away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We could feel the thrum of old activity sliding along the floorboards, caught in the keyholes of closed doors. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Manchee, who don’t seem to ever get tired, is busy running around, lifting his leg on all the plants that have grown up thru the cracked floorboards. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When I came to visit her, we settled on the warping floorboards, where Felicia ate her meals with a serving spoon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of her, the corner of a warped floorboard is poking up. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z They were barefoot and wore singlets over trunks that dripped onto the floorboards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He reached down to a short length of floorboard and pushed at it until he was able to lever it out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Juanita demanded, dumping out the sodas on the floorboard and jumping in the front seat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The concentric circles of a braided wool rug concealed most of the floorboards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He likes the solidity of its plaster walls, its dark wooden floorboards, however battered and stained. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards creaked gently as Kendra and Seth tiptoed down the stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Harry walked down the stairs as quietly as possible, though the faces in some of the portraits still turned curiously at the squeak of a floorboard, the rustle of his pajamas. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Her hands would be hummingbirds of hard black sounds, her feet supple against the floorboards of the night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The attic floorboards beneath her feet are as wide across as her hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I have my own ghosts. I don’t need yours,” the house sent back in noisy floorboards and squeaky door hinges. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Mom tells him to walk, not run, through the house, and he responds by hurrying across the floorboards on his tiptoes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then we slosh buckets of water across the floorboards, using push brooms to sluice the resulting muck from the car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She shoved the dishes down to the floorboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards in the hall creak, and I peek around the doorway. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The revolver flew from my hands and skittered across the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I fell onto my stomach and was beginning to rise when I heard a yelp from behind me, a grunt, the scuffle of boot heels on the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Slowly and sadly he gathered up all his presents and his birthday cards and hid them under the loose floorboard with his homework. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My legs collapsed beneath me after several steps, and I sucked in the breathable air near the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My skin didn’t just crawl; it felt like it was going to leap off my body, turn to liquid, and seep into the floorboards. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z We marched single file into our yard, where Papi stacked floorboards. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Rats still crawled through gaping holes in floorboards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I was reminded of being under the floorboards again in Plaszów. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I can’t help noticing that he keeps the knees of his suit off the floorboards. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The windows were broken and sagging and weeds were growing up between the floorboards, and even one old rusted cookstove had fireweed springing from the firebox. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dylan moves quicker this time, ignoring the loud floorboards. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Outside the sky was clear, but icy gusts of wind were buffeting our barracks every few minutes, sending fresh dust puffs up through the floorboards. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Other favorite smugglers’ hiding places for booze included fake floorboards and hidden second gas tanks in automobiles, false-bottomed shopping baskets and suitcases, and hot water bottles. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Ben pulled a 12-gauge double barreled shotgun off the floorboards of the back seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew every step, every stony divot in the ancient walls, every creaky floorboard. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But Pet hadn’t moved; it just kept watching them with its implacable face, its weight loud loud loud in the floorboards, translating directly to Jam’s feet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The unfinished Sanchez house lay open to wind and rain, and the new floorboards buckled and warped with moisture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After that I’m looking at a lot of overshoes, and the floorboards, stretching into the distance, at eye level. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. But I’ve hidden it,” he said, “under a floorboard in my bedroom. No one knows that space is there.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Now I swing my legs over the edge of my bed, toes curling silently over the floorboards. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From upstairs, the thud of feet on floorboards and children’s voices, two or three at least, talking at once, rising, falling, and rising again, perhaps in dissent, perhaps excited agreement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ruth pressed the toe of her shoe against the floorboard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we are in the tree house and Charlie is showing me his secret floorboard under the mattress. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The mouse ran to a corner, its claws scratching desperately on the floorboards. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her underthings hung heavily on her slim frame, a stained white shift dripping ghostly water onto the floorboards of the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Its dome is silver and its floorboards are still unpainted. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z She set her pen down until she began the journal that would become “War in Val d’Orcia,” hiding it under the floorboards every night, lest it fall into enemy hands. Not a Moment Too Soon: Iris Origo’s War Diary 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z As you walk over creaking floorboards, soft jazz emanates from the horn of a gramophone. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z If a man invites U.S. soldiers to stay for dinner, he’ll have a weapons cache under the floorboards. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s the appendage that routinely taps the floorboards — and wait till you see the way featured newsboy Luke Spring taps! — that assumes the starring role here. Review | ‘Newsies’ has legs. It’s the other parts that still need work. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z When she discovers a stash of previous drawings hidden under the floorboards, she not only affirms the consistency of her vision, but also the eerily consistent pattern of behavior that defines her life. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z We shuffled in darkness past beds and clocks and other authentic, time-of-the-battle furniture, and past a cabinet displaying a segment of kitchen floorboard stained by drops of Jennie’s blood. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z These ravenous critters chew through everything: walls, floorboards and body limbs, this last giving birth to human variations on the same. Review: In ‘Zombeavers,’ the Flesheaters Have Overbites 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “And I would hide on the floorboard of his car as we drove through Beverly Hills and it was the craziest thing,” says Lieberman. She sang ‘Killing Me Softly’ before Roberta Flack. Now she just wants you to hear her side of the story. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Sydney Smith illustrates the small, concrete moments of a summer day with poetic clarity: an open window, a man going down the road on a bicycle, the sun on wooden floorboards. Best children’s books to read and share this month 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z According to the bar’s website, famous figures in South Africa’s history — sports stars, dignitaries, even the controversial diamond baron Cecil Rhodes — trod the floorboards of the old Persies, as it is known. A $1,000 Day in Cape Town for $100 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Whole interior scenes will play solely to the sound of shoes and boots squeaking and creaking across floorboards. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z The story of young Arrietty's growing frustration with life under the floorboards speaks forever to children's irritation with their own circumscribed world. The best children's books: 8-12 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z There are other droll effects: synchronised dance routines for wheelchairs; characters jumping through floorboards on to the stage; a few perky rhyming couplets and some neck-twistings which are accompanied by sickeningly loud clicks. Hamlet; A Number; Enlightenment; Faust 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Stella It was such a peculiar, old house but we did so much to it; we sanded floorboards and painted the walls. ‘Anyone else would have kicked him out’: celebrity flatmates reveal all 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The ceiling is crumbling, the walls chipping, the floorboards sagging; stray wooden planks are strewn against the walls. Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gets ‘National Treasure’ Designation 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z He has personally vetted and approved every floorboard and object inside, even designed much of the furniture himself when he thought there was nothing out there that quite met his exacting design standards. The House That Calvin Klein Built 2013-08-30T21:08:57Z In “The Visit,” an amusingly grim fairy tale, floorboards creak, doors squeak and lights lower and sometimes shriek to black. Review: ‘The Visit’ Is ‘Hansel and Gretel’ With Less Candy and More Camcorders 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The wooden floorboards creaked as I came and went, accompanied by the rustling of more than 20 birds of prey who were confined while being rehabilitated. Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The lasagna is made; the wine is corkscrew-ready; and the open kitchen/dining room — with its granite countertops and glossy floorboards — is worthy of a shelter-magazine photo spread. Review | Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The movies are where many of us first learn to shudder at creaking floorboards, slow-turning doorknobs and all the other delicious, familiar frights that repeatedly bring us back for another genre helping. Movie Review: ?Intruders,? From Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, With Clive Owen 2012-03-29T21:17:00Z They swept through monasteries, melting down copper urns for shrapnel, ripping up floorboards for firewood, sitting on sacred scroll paintings and eating boiled yak hide torn from temple drums. The Chinese Town That Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Well-appointed with stylish interiors of exposed brick walls painted burgundy and original factory floorboards, the store adds a discreet touch of London retro-chic to a trendy urban neighborhood. In Transit Blog: A New London Shop Specializing in Vintage 2011-08-29T10:00:08Z And of her collections: Once her stack of newspapers, a major preoccupation, grew so heavy it buckled the floorboards. ‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z As revealed in the final scene, an alternate world lies beneath the floorboards of the stage, another beautiful sight to behold. Review: Making an Epic Visual Impact With Minimal Means 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z But I remember a man driving our family through the desert and lying on the car’s floorboard with my siblings so we wouldn’t be seen. I live in fear of deportation: My life as an undocumented worker 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Half-way through her party, she disappears to hide in the dirt beneath the floorboards of the house. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z “These old floorboards are noisy, but they’re nice about it,” she says. In the Studio With Paris’s New Fashion Darling 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z And, of course, there were the rats and other pests scurrying under the floorboards. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z After the plates were taken out of the box in their wrapping, the empty box was put under a floorboard; the plates themselves were hidden anew in a huge heap of flax. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z It is part of the building’s ongoing $215 million-revitalization effort and aims to replace the current floorboards, of Georgia yellow pine, with wood from various historic buildings around the country, including the Domino Sugar Factory. Park Avenue Armory Receives Nearly $2 Million in City Funds 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The only solution, she was told, was to rip up the floorboards and fill the recess below with concrete. Homes: how a rodent infestation turned out to be a blessing in disguise 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Every floorboard of the 1771-built house creaks with history, but the 17 rooms are a thoughtful hybrid of old and new. 36 Hours in Cape Town 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Cancer is the troll that scratches and thumps beneath the floorboards of our consciousness, if it hasn’t already beaten its way into the room. Review: Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Gene,’ a Molecular Pursuit of the Self 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The old floorboards will be taken to a new location and stored. Work crew begins removal of Ryman Auditorium stage 2012-02-04T22:16:03Z She rallies around this topic like Henry V pacing the floorboards before the Battle of Agincourt. ‘Wuhan Diary’ Offers an Angry and Eerie View From Inside Quarantine 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The wide floorboards are painted a shade of gray that Elkann puzzled over for weeks. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z Wide-plank pine floorboards suggest a refurbished barn, as does the long farm table in the kitchen. On Location: Chelsea: A Painter Stretches 2014-04-02T23:17:21Z Translated by Stephen Snyder, the acclaimed Japanese writer’s fifth English release is an elegantly spare dystopian fable narrated by a novelist who hides her editor under the floorboards of her home office. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Humans are the giants in Mary Norton’s “The Borrowers,” the story of a tiny family that lives under the floorboards of a British home. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The BFG’ 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The interior is later fitted with floorboards and seats; students also craft their oars by hand and finish the project by naming their boat and decorating it with paint. Maya Lin’s Dismantled ‘Ghost Forest’ to Be Reborn as Boats 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Starting with fire hoses and floorboards, moving onto words and symbols and songs, Gates includes visitors in the list of things he transforms. In Theaster Gates' latest work, poignant power from the remnants of our history 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Ruskin wrote somewhere of his own boyhood fascination with the whorls on floorboards and the patterns on the carpet, as he played on the floor with a bunch of old keys for a toy. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z Its narrative works like the time-delay bomb that is placed fairly early on in the proceedings, slowly ticking away under the floorboards of the reader’s mind, getting louder and more fraught as the detonation approaches. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Occasionally a few of the floorboards rise up as a menacing laugh resounds — the Telltale Chortle. Review: ‘Hallo’ Stars Martin Zimmerman, Fighting Off the Scenery 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z On this verbal surface, ten minutes is plenty of time for a fond frivolous moment, shining with the hope of reconciliation, to collapse like a rotten floorboard. The Agreeable Staginess of “State of the Union” 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z And we have bills and possibly loved ones who depend upon us for food, clothes, floorboards, bus fares – money is handy for that stuff, too. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z So the power, the pungent ether and air loaded with pork bone and spices would just seep through the floorboards and just permeate my entire apartment. Devendra Banhart’s amazing “Mad Men” finale theory involves Roger’s octopus painting and J.K. Rowling 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Thor had seemingly become trapped under the floorboards of the house they were working on. Pet cat trapped under floorboards for two months found nearly dead 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Schooled in the art of the quiet boo, Mr. Watkins fills the film with squeaking doors and floorboards, pools of black, long silences and an assortment of moldering toys. Movie Review: ?The Woman in Black? Starring Daniel Radcliffe 2012-02-02T17:15:11Z When I stayed there in April, I found custom surfboards to borrow, scented candles, an airy bedroom with a custom-made teak bed, reclaimed wood floorboards and hand-painted ceramic tiles in the bathroom. New Malibu Hotels for Surf-Lovers 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Being very old, its floorboards creaked, and brass bits and pieces tinkled. My quest to be more Welsh 2011-07-29T23:07:29Z Stepping onto her wooden floorboards, we walk into a Shaker world. Review: In ‘Angel Reapers,’ Torment and Bliss, Hand in Hand, Seek Connection 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Did I have enough courage to walk through the endless dark rooms, with their creaking floorboards and peeling wallpaper, to reach the bathroom? Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z While her British husband is off chasing down his drug-addicted brother, Emma traces the floorboards in the bedroom with colored pencils. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Inside are countless inconveniences related to the hotel's eccentric plumbing, insecure floorboards, and cat-plagued lobbies. Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell 2010-04-15T11:26:00Z I found her old ration book and letters from her sweetheart, who died in the first world war, under the floorboards. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Plaster was peeling off the walls, and dusty mahogany pews were scattered on warped floorboards. Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z On a windy night in May, the building creaked like the floorboards of a haunted house. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Trump SoHo Hotel 2010-05-28T07:44:00Z Jack Best, Bill Goldfinch and a bunch of their chums built a glider out of floorboards, bedsheets and porridge, obviously. TV review: Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down; The Riots; Escape from Colditz 2012-08-13T21:35:01Z Some of the floorboards bend up steeply, as if warped by decades of humidity, and end in a row of splinters. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The young woman is the kind of enthusiast who hops on the creaky floorboards upon taking possession of a dank one-bedroom apartment in a dubious building. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Those who misbehave are shocked with crippling current delivered through the floorboards. From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z While thinking about how I might escape, I leaned sideways and my hand landed on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit me in the head. Terry McMillan remembers the book that spoke to her one summer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Instead he tucks away his tips under the floorboards in his neat-as-a-pin room, saving for the day when he can buy a little shop and run a business, still as a man. Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close's Quiet Man 2012-01-26T16:27:54Z I lie awake late at night, listening to the scratchings and bumps rattling the floorboards over my head, and think, along with Tom Waits, What’s he building in there? The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Arrietty herself is a miniature 14-year‑old girl, who lives with her parents in secrecy under the floorboards of a rural Japanese home, "borrowing" their possessions – a pin becomes her sword, for example. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z Apparently Brian has also preset cameras in the houses they enter, or the residents wanted surveillance videos from floorboard level. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z But it did send a collection of domestic objects discovered under the house’s floorboards, including a nail and a clay pipe. ‘Will & Jane’: Two Literary Superheroes, United in Pop Culture 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He found them under Spencer’s floorboards and handed them over. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode four – Service 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Even the sounds of the ravaged house — like creaking floorboards — are her voice, digitally manipulated. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Their bare feet pounded on the wooden floorboards as they followed the company's Franco-Tunisian principal, Raphael Boumaila, as he leapt, crouched and pounced across the mirrored studio. Dance troupe spotlights Mexico's native son, Limon 2010-11-18T22:01:00Z He then confined her in a dungeon he constructed below his floorboards expressly to imprison the child. Kidnapping was the “best thing” that ever happened 2013-01-15T20:47:00Z She recalls working as a reporter for The New York Times in the late 1980s, and being sent to Springs when the paint-stained wooden floor was found under Masonite floorboards that Pollock installed in 1952. Fans recall American artist Jackson Pollock at 100 2012-04-15T16:09:07Z Discovering “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” under those floorboards was, indeed, gold. Terry McMillan remembers the book that spoke to her one summer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Though maybe not, because he keeps the floorboards so clean, and you only met him a short time before your death. “To My Younger Self” 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Paint samples have been scraped from the undersides of original floorboards, analysed, and then made up again in all their unlikely glory. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z By contrast, the cheerful borrowers, in their home beneath the floorboards, built from outsize bobbins and matchboxes, are bright with colour. The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd 2012-12-23T00:04:15Z “A rug inhales noise; floorboards sigh with grief. Sensory design tweaks our skin, bones and muscles. It tickles, pinches and pops. It plays rough. It touches us, and we touch back.” At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z A crew began gently removing the Nashville landmark's 61-year-old oak floorboards with pry bars Saturday morning. Work crew begins removal of Ryman Auditorium stage 2012-02-04T22:16:03Z Wooden floorboards creak and groan, and the owners have preserved the tin ceilings from the building’s decades as a hardware store. In the Jersey Suburbs, a Bookstore Whose Vibe Is Pure Narnia 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z In another lucky discovery, an examination of debris collected under the floorboards of the room turned up another wallpaper fragment, a bright verditer-green example. New research shows George Washington was trendier than we thought 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s about a family of tiny people who live under the floorboards of a boy’s house, and I basically read this as nonfiction. Brian Selznick: By the Book 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z That iPod you thought you'd left on a train, for example – chances are that under the floorboards some folk are enjoying their new flatscreen TV. The Borrowers – review 2012-12-12T13:32:45Z But the films have to be even scarier when watched on video, alone or with your beloved, late at night, in a house whose floorboards never cracked, till right NOW. Paranormal Activity 3: Three?s a Shroud 2011-10-19T12:57:15Z Children in the Riga ghetto played soccer, walked to school past bodies strung from gallows, and later, in Kaiserwald, heard their parents make futile plans to hide them under barracks floorboards. ?Forgotten Transports? of Czech Jews at Shoah Festival 2010-03-26T22:02:00Z A pulsing electro-beat powers the louche Bloomsbury party scene, while Woolf’s mental and emotional disintegration is signalled by a flock of attacking crows and ivy curling up a lamp-post or thrusting through the floorboards. 'I felt kind of promiscuous': Gemma Arterton on Vita and Virginia 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z She hears footsteps from above, shuffling against the attic floorboards. What we talk about when we talk about Donald Trump and ‘gaslighting’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The family had consulted with other auction houses; one proposed simply dismantling and selling the Shahns’ roomfuls of Nakashima custom drawers, sliding doors, cherry floorboards and a rough-edged oak window seat. Antiques: Shahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale 2010-10-14T21:46:00Z Is he imagining the beating of the heart beneath the floorboards or is there something there? Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z Serene understatement was the concert’s hallmark; at times, the music was so quiet I could hear the club’s floorboards creaking. Review: I’m With Her, Three Americana Virtuosos 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z First, a shiny black membrane was laid over the floorboards. Spirit of the underground: dance 2011-01-30T21:30:00Z Did the cat wander around crying as fluids seeped into the floorboards? Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Yes, Jack is somehow alive even after losing so much blood in the finale that it seeped through the floorboards. Hannibal recap: season three, episode three – Secundo 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It is gloriously, romantically shabby: a sheet is tacked up in place of a door, two portable heaters provide pockets of warmth, and the morning sunlight floods dusty floorboards. Life after death 2010-03-28T21:00:00Z The building’s original floorboards were uncovered and overlaid with a symmetrical black-and-white pattern to mask unevenness and patchy repair jobs from the past, creating a sense of uniformity while retaining a vintage appeal. An East London Restaurant Gets a Light-Filled Overhaul 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z To correct their unseemly behaviour, the wayward babes get their heads preternaturally battered against walls and floorboards. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z That titular secret world is close by: Arrietty is no taller than a leaf, and her equally diminutive family lives under the floorboards of an old family home. Now That Studio Ghibli Is Streaming on HBO Max, Where Do You Start? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Intimate friends might be invited to spend the evening in the dining room, a red jewel-box hung with glittering Middle-Eastern ceramics and set off by crimson floorboards. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z Editor's Note: The pernicious spot on the floor recalls Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, in which a heartbeat under the floorboards torments a killer with the inescapable guilt of his crime. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z She made her porch of leftover floorboards from a barn and took an old bicycle apart, hanging her shower curtain from its tire rim. Palm Fronds and Car Parts: Assemblage Art in Los Angeles 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z I like instead to drive long distances alone, preferably at night with the windows down and a pile of compact discs rattling around on the passenger side floorboards. Still Life: Dwight Garner on Driving to West Virginia 2012-08-21T16:23:08Z When Hurley is ready to leave, “the floorboards are coming up at me,” he said. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z In his ramshackle apartment, we belted out Bob Dylan songs as he twirled me across the sloping floorboards. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z Dancers from around the world will stomp the floorboards and leap into the air as they show off their best moves at Dublin's World Irish Dancing Championships this week. Dancers from around the world show off at Irish Dancing Championships 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In some of the rooms, the painted floorboards retain a “splatter pattern” – a decorating trend from the 1930s. How one Cape Cod home kept its faded glory 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Inside, actors strutted and pounced barefoot on black floorboards while the tiny audience shared the makeshift stage for the Saturday night performance. Underground actors seek last act for Belarus leader 2010-12-20T18:24:48Z There is a beauty that is almost spiritual in the way the sun falls across a block of rowhouses, through the windows of a storefront or along the floorboards of a walk-up apartment. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z But exploding Ernst's modest floorboard drawing to monumental scale does say something about the technique's relative enormity in subsequent art history. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The grass pushing through the floorboards on the Alexander McQueen runway were like little blades of hope — that the spirit of the late designer could be kept alive by Sarah Burton. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z There’s jumping, mime and swordplay; at one point, Mr. Walker gets hit by a floorboard during a fight. Tickling Worms in the Lab, Tickling Funny Bones Onstage 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z With its absent inhabitants and missing floorboards, the Vesper house is a powerful, and suitably eerie, metaphor for loss. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The next morning, plastic foam containers filled with pastries from JB’s German Bakery and Cafe squeaked on the floorboard as we headed back to PINS. On Padre in Texas, Soft Sand, Shells and Seclusion 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But the hidden bomb — and there is one, believe me — is nowhere beneath the floorboards. Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z At night, he carefully counts the coins given to him in tips by hotel guests, storing them under a loose floorboard in his comfortless room, against better days to come. 'Albert Nobbs': Gender-bender is wistful, intriguing 2012-01-26T22:08:01Z For more than a year after that, according to Mr. Boltanski, his father was kept hidden under floorboards in the family’s apartment. Christian Boltanski Has a Show at the Park Avenue Armory 2010-05-09T23:40:00Z The solitude didn’t bother Sarah when her husband was alive, but now the creaky floorboards and banging doors set her nerves a-jangle. Four Thrillers, United by Male Trouble 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The Borrowers is a series of novels by Mary Norton about "little people" who live under the floorboards. Stephen Fry set for Borrowers adaptation 2011-06-20T13:37:56Z I warned guests to watch out for the square nails poking up from the floorboards, the reason I kept a hammer at the ready. Masterpiece Rental: My Life in the ‘American Gothic’ House 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z He kicked things off in 1925 with a rubbing made on the knotty wood grain of his well-worn studio floorboards. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Its premises have the feel of a typical Silicon Valley operation: distressed floorboards, glass-fronted offices, beanbags by an open fireplace, exposed brickwork, a snug for breathers. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z I shouted, and ran to my room, which was turretlike and nookish, with a gabled window and what sounded like a family of squirrels living under the slanted floorboards of the closet. Modern Love: Modern Love: A Family Fairy Tale, Twice Told 2012-03-22T22:09:06Z An arrangement of earth and skulls – clustered in threes – borders the wooden floorboards of an old-fashioned gymnasium, where fencing rapiers hang ready for use. Hamlet – review 2013-03-31T00:05:19Z I took silence, interrupted only by stamping on the floorboards overhead, to be bad news. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z He was handsome and a genius and offered, as one of his lovers put it, the lure of studio life, “champagne there on dirty floorboards.” The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z I guessed that Dad preferred the yellow ones, too, because I heard him arguing with Mum through the floorboards as I packed my case. George Craig: Shuttered Windows 2011-07-22T22:02:01Z He drilled and sawed old floorboards, doors and wine crates for his home decorations and added murals of celebrated women, including Pocahontas, Sappho, Cleopatra and Bessie Smith. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z The circle of floorboards at the stage's centre was transported to the Opry House from the show's former home, Ryman's Auditorium. Grand Ole Opry closed due to flooding 2010-05-05T12:02:00Z Bruce McDonald, the director, is adept at building dread through spooky noises — a creaking floorboard, a sinister whisper — and claustrophobic sets. Review: ‘Hellions’ Reminds Us That Halloween Isn’t About the Candy 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Fox lifts her eyes from the table to show us the rest of the room: the Tiffany lampshade, the stainless-steel sink, the refurbished cedar floorboards, the “highly polished” Victorian secretary desk. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z A teenage boy visits his mother’s childhood home and finds tiny people living under the floorboards, in a slight story with animation that’s lovely in a generic way. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Dr. Seuss writes horror: "Then I heard from the floorboards a thumpety-thump, like a tocker whose ticker just started to jump." Style Invitational Week 1466: Be Invitationally correct 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The scale is the opposite of epic, in fact: the film is based on Mary Norton's 1950s Borrowers novels, in which miniature people live like mice under the floorboards. Arrietty ? review 2011-07-28T21:05:07Z The markings guide her away from creaky floorboards that she wouldn’t hear otherwise. ‘A Quiet Place,’ a Nearly Silent Movie, Makes Noise Ahead of Its Opening 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Better is the use of sound in the film to create importance — the creaking floorboards, or the percussion of an upstairs neighbor — that rattle the family's nerves. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z New sounds have been massing under my floorboards. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Never put the body under the floorboards, that's one of the first rules of murder; just you wait, it'll come back to haunt you. TV review: Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down; The Riots; Escape from Colditz 2012-08-13T21:35:01Z God was in the details — and in the lighting fixtures and in the floorboards. His ‘Soft White Cube’ Is Conquering TriBeCa 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z "Within a few months we'll be burying money under the floorboards." Letters: Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-09T17:37:45Z She just sort of grows out of the floorboards.” A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z Here is comfy seating, a corner cabinet, comely seascapes, rugs spread on floorboards. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia The house is in the final stages of a renovation; the stairs are still unfinished and the floorboards are being installed. The New Influencer Capital of America 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z This was not an illegal rave, the kind where attendees risked nose-diving through rotten floorboards or fleeing a police raid. The Man Behind Those Throbbing Warehouse Parties in Brooklyn 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Without the daytime bustle, the floorboards seemed to creak more loudly. Arts: After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums: An Uneven Mix 2010-04-17T00:02:00Z She was certain her daughter had been killed — “Lateashia didn’t crawl under no floorboards by herself” — but a corpse in the 700 block of Princeton Place NW was not unusual. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later When we were rehearsing, this guttural energy just came up from the floorboards. Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were' 2010-03-25T22:10:00Z Many of the artworks here are made from the original, old growth pine floorboards of the Park Avenue Armory that Gates obtained while organizing one of his Black Artists Retreats there in 2019. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z I smiled in agreement, feeling the energy of the moment, and so many similar moments before it flow between us, seeping into our old home's walls and floorboards with the sun's final surges. I saw The Cure with my parents. Here's why I hope they don't end up on TikTok 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z There was always rot in the foundation — it just took the Kansas City mob to pry open the floorboards and finally expose it. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Family Deserves the Ground 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The whole place looks like something out of a mad Gothic fairytale: burnished gold wall tiles, black floorboards and a series of willing female minions wearing identikit yellow dresses who bustle around making espressos. Karen Elson 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z “Reading My Father” is not just a stroll across the lawns and wooden floorboards of Ms. Styron’s memories. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z She spent most of the night floating near the ceiling, ignoring the molecules moving in the wood grain of the floorboards. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z And though it’s always hilarious to see floorboards fly up and smack actors in the face, the professionalization of fake trauma may have outstripped the comedy of it. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s both small and dark, still replete with the original wood wall panels and precariously sloping floorboards, and in its own way as striking as that of its upstairs neighbor. Separated by 2 centuries and one wall: visiting Hendrix’s and Handel’s houses in London 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Women might be suspected if they moved noiselessly over creaky floorboards, had an uncommonly good sense of smell or survived a fall down stairs. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It spells things out and yet is one of the great stage explorations of the unconscious: you hear an underworld stirring beneath the floorboards. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z The floorboards creaked beneath Mr. Vallance’s feet as he explained the elements of the steady growth of his business, an enviable anomaly in a difficult time. Why Won’t Anyone Buy the Most Famous Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Every floorboard and door in Anna’s sprawling house seems to get a solo, with squeaks that become shrieks. ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ Review: California Freakin’, With Scares, Laughs and a Murderous Ghost 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The project required navigating around rotten floorboards, snakes and sketchy neighborhoods. Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z All is quiet, until Marie hears a floorboard creak in the hall and springs into action: Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “Big dust storms would come in from the High Sierras, and dust would blow up in the cracks of the floorboards of the rooms people were held in,” he said. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Day and night, a reedy, nagging, muffled voice wafting through the walls, rising from the floorboards: “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The play starts from a simple premise: an historic Roman bath is found under the floorboards of an archetypal "little man", Ivan Antonov. The Roman Bath 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z Why were the floorboards in the loft apartment stained black? Seeing the World, and My Living Room, Through a Designer’s Eyes 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Lines like that are part of the atmosphere of darkly comic war novels, which need bitter irony like horror stories need creaking floorboards. Review | ‘Red Birds’ is a blistering — and funny — critique of America’s military meddling 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z For example, its first fragrance, Church, is meant to evoke “the centuries-old floorboards in a mountain chapel in Yugoslavia,” while another, Shiso, is a gutsy mixture of bitter green and frosty mint notes. This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The bar, too, was quiet, often so quiet that one readily heard every creak in the old floorboards. Sunny’s Place 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The left side is itself divided, too, into wide, orderly brushstrokes that resemble floorboards; horizontal above, vertical below. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The Snowman and The Snowdog tells the story of a boy who discovers a box hidden under his bedroom floorboards which contains a snowman-making kit. Animator 'proud' of Snowman film 2012-12-24T08:44:35Z It observes the parallel Saturday-night solitudes of two New York singles separated by only floorboards and a ceiling in identical studio apartments. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z Often the Runnin’ Rebels used no more than eight players in a game -- "The Hard Way Eight," as they were called -- and yet ran opponents into the floorboards. When Sin City ruled college basketball 2011-03-29T00:20:00Z A drama by Harold Pinter, perhaps, with pauses long enough to hear the creaky floorboards? Anna Wintour Removed Her Sunglasses for This 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Or was it dropped through the floorboards by someone else, perhaps a family member on the way to the gas chambers? Holocaust victim's family brought together by pendant found beneath death camp floorboards 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z His Chelsea apartment, likewise, features an eclectic, beachy-chic mix that nicely sets off the space’s wide floorboards, functional fireplaces and large original windows. | Robert McKinley’s Beach-Chic Style at Home in Chelsea 2014-05-02T22:00:35Z That groaning noise I always heard under the floorboards of Kaila? In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Brian Hemmingsen persuasively finds the pathos and the power in a weakened, agitated pensioner with his savings tucked under his floorboards. Review | Fiesty ‘Marx in Soho’ opens a block from new Irish working-class drama ‘Coolatully’ 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Her habit is a long, paint-splattered shift; her monastic cell is her studio, where there are bare floorboards and almost no furniture. 'Lucian wanted us to have a baby' 2012-10-12T23:05:22Z Perforations cut into the wall sculptures refer to the breathing holes found in the floorboards of churches that sheltered escaped slaves. In ‘Breathing Directions,’ Nari Ward Gathers Layers of African-American History 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Or was it dropped through the floorboards by someone else, perhaps a family member on the way to the gas chambers? Holocaust victim's family brought together by pendant found beneath death camp floorboards 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Yet for all the show’s sturm, drang and vivid coloration, an essential something is lacking – that certain whiff, drifting up through the floorboards, of subterranean horrors. A 'Threepenny Opera' without a sense of urgency 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The landmark building retains its neo-Gothic facade, grand marble staircase and stained-glass windows, with original floorboards repurposed as wall paneling in common areas. New hotels to check out in South America 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They are both visual artists, and so I grew up in a studio home, where paint was flying onto walls, the smell of turpentine wafting up through the floorboards. Day 28: How I Lost My Head on New Year’s Eve 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Between her body and the door, the hallway floorboards, golden in reflected sun. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z The “Bones” episode begins with the discovery of a fresh corpse under the floorboards in a church where some young people are preparing for a kegger. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bones’ and ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Cross-Pollinate 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Central to Gate’s art is the remembrance and reclamation of Black history and culture on Chicago’s South Side. several recent reliefs have a more local source: discarded floorboards from the Park Avenue Armory. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z A: Yes — who might have bodies under his floorboards. ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Warped wooden floorboards creak under my feet, and exposed pipes and electrical wiring line the unfinished hallway. In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The interior is classic New York Victorian: tin ceilings, mahogany tables, sconces, wooden floorboards and panelling. 10 of the best Irish bars in New York 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z When this factory closed in 1981, the staff turned the key and walked away, leaving everything in place, including gold dust in the floorboards. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z Windows on two walls let the early-evening light into a spartan dining room with wide floorboards and a cheery bar. Freek’s Mill Spins Romance Near a Superfund Site 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The barnlike open space features wood plank floorboards, hanging copper lamps and vintage pieces like a scooter from the 1940s mounted on the wall. Bites : Restaurant Report: The Coalhouse in Gower, Wales 2014-04-22T18:32:01Z The floorboards are buckling again, but were the new boards laid correctly? Don’t give up on your vintage gas stove. It can be fixed. 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Over in Lenox, Shakespeare & Company, a favorite of the summer theater scene, never lets the floorboards cool. Journeys: In Winter, Berkshires Culture Moves Indoors 2012-01-13T15:05:55Z From the first floor, you can see its tip, slicing ominously through the floorboards like an oversized shark fin. Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z When a friend came by to help change a lightbulb, however, they noticed that a damaged area of the ceiling looked like it had floorboards above it. Man finds hidden attic in new house full of valuable antiques 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The central conundrum of the novel is, of course, as it was in real life – was the simple-minded Davies wrongly hanged for murder, given what was later found beneath the floorboards? A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Wind howls, blood seems to ooze down walls and up from beneath floorboards, and coherence is sacrificed to sensation. ‘Crimson Peak,’ a Guillermo del Toro Gothic Romance in High Bloody Style 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z And now, he’s torn through the walls and floorboards of his own apartment, searching for a bug that may or may not exist. ‘Billions’ Season 1 Finale Recap: A Wendy, Scorned 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The most challenging part of replacing a broken floorboard is removing the damaged piece. What to do about splitting floorboards in an old home 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Piece by piece, they dismantled it and fashioned templates from its planks and ribs, its bulkheads, floorboards and decking for replacements cut from African sipo, Kentucky oak and Douglas fir. A $7-million dream: Steinbeck's vintage sardine boat makes its modern debut 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In his small barbershop with sandy wooden floorboards and a fishbowl glass window to the street outside, Ruben Galante has for some four decades watched presidents come and go, myriad economic crises, and fast-rising prices. The Buenos Aires barber's books: a history of 19,900% inflation 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z A sniffer dog detected bedbugs in a baseboard and between floorboards. France is bitten by a fear of bedbugs as it prepares to host Summer Olympics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z During recent renovations, floorboards were found under the existing auditorium, and they have been dated back to the 15th Century. Stage that once hosted William Shakespeare found, claims Norfolk theatre 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z When called to a superspreader flat, he and his team find truly revolting spectacles - hundreds of bedbugs crawling over each other, in clothes, in the floorboards, behind pictures. Bedbug panic sweeps Paris as infestations soar before 2024 Olympics 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z "In this case, the daycare's floorboards were used as concealment, putting children's lives at risk who innocently sat on the floor to play." Third arrest made in New York fentanyl nursery child death 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Since trapping restarted, stoats have been found making dens in attics, under kitchen floorboards, in garden rockeries, and in greater density than on the UK mainland. Call for extra £8m to eradicate stoats from Orkney 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z "Are we now asking inspectors to pry up the floorboards and look for trapdoors?" he asked. Nursery boy's fentanyl death provokes horror in Bronx 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The floorboards were uncovered last month during a renovation project at the Guildhall. Stage that once hosted William Shakespeare found, claims Norfolk theatre 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z New floorboards, cabinets, fixtures, lights and walls gleamed. We need immigrants more than ever. They keep hope in this country alive 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z |
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