kerbstone BrE
curbstone AmE

They had crossed the park now and were standing on the kerbstone of a broad avenue, waiting for the light to change.

Trudging beside the kerbstone, she felt a return of misgivings.

He stumbled over some hidden kerbstone hazard, went down.

John Charlton fell heavily, cracking his skull on a kerbstone.

The site is subtly marked with a pink granite kerbstone in front of small wall plaque.

I'm not even sure about this kerbstone business.'

An old man came out of the house against whose kerbstone I was parked and asked if I wanted anything.

Ape suddenly bared his kerbstone teeth to the gums.

I picked her off the kerbstone.

Suddenly Jerry's artificial limb erupted with a series of loud explosions as he was beginning to mount the kerbstone.

He later wrote in his memoirs: "I found a woman seated on the kerbstone and weeping pitifully.

Doctor McRae, the only one to have survived the cruise unscathed, has tripped on a kerbstone and broken his foot.

He lay still, a scarlet pool forming beneath his head, oozing out from the wound in his skull where it had struck the kerbstone.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

A kerbstone with cup-marks, a spiral and a flower-like design marks the entrance to the second, smaller tomb - with modern concrete roof.

The lock is a grade II listed structure, dating from the building of the canal, although a dated kerbstone indicates that it was modified in 1899.

On the way to the station we heard a kerbstone musician playing the concertina, and Eliot, struck by the tune, asked me if I knew what it was.

Steff sat on a kerbstone on the horseshoe drive while a nurse knelt on the grass verge beside him and put stitches in his arm.

After all, one used to think that the old--and Sir Lawrence winced on the kerbstone of Piccadilly--were only fit to be measured for their coffins.

He stumbled quickly to the guard post, searching for his wallet, searching for his pass, nearly tripping off the kerbstone, but he couldn't find the damned thing.

If the accused hits a constable while resisting arrest and the constable bangs his head on a kerbstone causing serious injury, he is guilty of GBH with intent.

He attempted to escape by leaving through a window and jumping off her second floor balcony, hitting his face on a kerbstone and leaving a permanent scar above his left eyebrow.

Only some tags of fur and tissue, and a dark stain where the skull had cracked against the kerbstone, were there to convince the detective he had not dreamed it all.

At one street corner - he could tell it was a corner because the wind converged from two directions - he stumbled over the kerbstone into the gutter, and the rod shot out of his hand.

Despite chasing it for a short distance with a small childs' bicycle, the car is lost (except for a wheel that was secure to the kerbstone in an effort to prevent it from being removed.)

It was insignificant, and went on close to the curbstone.

Authors say they return to Curbstone because of its personal touch.

In the 1970's, they started Curbstone while working at other jobs.

Next, a curbstone debate on the city's best lemon tart.

After four years of working in the brokerage firm, he left his position to be a curbstone broker.

As they were passing the hotel on their drive down town, the clerk came out to the curbstone and called to the doctor.

She stood on the curbstone, swinging a sunshade in one hand.

He spoke before she was halfway to the curbstone.

On the curbstone to Will's right sat women ranging in age from thirteen to ninety.

In all, Curbstone has published 150 books, more than 70 percent translated into English.

Under the Broadway curbstone and the main entrance is a café.

She leaned for a moment on his arm in getting out of the cab and while standing at the curbstone, bidding the others good- night.

He slumped down to sit on the curbstone.

Beaver carries a baseball glove and limps along the curbstone.

He sank down onto the curbstone and cried.

Many have had books published by Curbstone.

The well-sprung coach swayed slightly as the horses drew away from the curbstone.

Sitting on it was like sitting on a curbstone.

A blind stripling stood tapping the curbstone with his slender cane.

Wrapped in gloom, a long dark vehicle stood at the curbstone, drawn by a single sway-backed horse.

The moonlight seems palpable, a dense pure matrix in which is embedded curbstone and building alike.

The only reminder of mortality was a doctor's brougham arrested in august solitude close to the curbstone.

The sun is just warm enough to stir the alcohol in my head, and we sit on our nice comfortable curbstone and think it over.

There was a bit of curbstone from the street, and other such trash, which quite masked the fence and the hand- cart.