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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I wish you children could have seen Miss Patricia Gilpin as I saw her once when I was a little child, more than thirty years ago. She was straight as an arrow and pretty as a picture. Such old ladies have gone out of fashion. I remember hearing her describe the backboard and spiked collar she wore for several hours each day when she was a child." "What was the spiked collar for?" Rosalind asked.
Afterwards," replies the Riding-Master and sends the Rough-Riding Corporal for the backboard dread instrument of equestrian persuasion. Muggins is forcibly mounted, put in the lunging ring and sent round and round till he throws himself off at full gallop and lies crying and sobbing like a child utterly broken.
Aid with two well-directed taps he knocked the pins out of their sockets, and let down the backboard of the cart. Bill, uncomforted by ale, sulkily jerked the horses forward; the cart was tilted up, and the snow tumbled out, partly into the shallow shore-water, partly on to the edge of the slope. "Ullo!" cried Tommy suddenly. "E're's an old coat-sleeve a sticking out o' the snow."
The very dray horses were gorged with an unending nourishment of snatched mouthfuls picked from backboard, from barrel top, and from the edge of the sidewalk. The entire locality reeked with the fatness of a hundred thousand furrows. A land of plenty, the inordinate abundance of the earth itself emptied itself upon the asphalt and cobbles of the quarter.
Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history, the whole day long.
"He is the man we have been looking for so long. I fancy we have got all the swag that has been stolen for the last eighteen months bags of jewels and watches, and sacks of silver. He is handcuffed, and his legs are tied, so we must carry him in." The officer fetched out a lantern. The other constable helped him to let down the backboard of the cart. "Now, Bastow, wake up," Chester said.
The entire Rodney family and the suitors of Eudora assembled to witness the departure. "It’s a heap friendly of you to fret so," was the parting stab of Sarah Yellett to Sally Rodney; and she swung the backboard about, cleared the cactus stumps in the Rodney door-yard, and gained the mountain-road. "Ai-yi!" said old Sally. "What’s this country comin’ to?"
A hired man held the reins, but beside him, wrapped in a fur coat although the day was warm, sat Colonel Carrington, a shivering, huddled object propped against the backboard. It was the first time we had seen him, and the sight troubled us, for the few weeks had made great changes in the ruler of Carrington. "I'm afraid I'm breaking orders," the driver explained.
You two can play anywhere that you are used to, David, or you can stay and watch as long as you like." David thought that that would be nice, and he turned his cart around and took out the backboard, and he told Dick that he might sit in it if he wanted to, or he could sit in the little armchair.
Thus it was at the same time an instrument of correction and of deportment. Whatever bodily defects the early Georgian damsels possessed they certainly had straight backs and level shoulders. The backboard was admirable training for the carriage of the stately sacque, the graceful flirting of the fan and for the dancing of the grave and dignified minuet. The day was nearing its end.
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