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  • He could have been much more disturbing – the incarnation, say, of Magazine's Song from Under the Floorboards "I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin/ My irritability keeps me alive and kicking".

    I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011

  • Floorboards came up, the front door was removed, a few walls came down.

    The house that 10:10 rebuilt 2010

  • Floorboards have been replaced; the car has new glass and new seals, restored doors and fenders and is awaiting painting.

    Auto body training in Va. prison 2010

  • "A Song from Under the Floorboards" was an existential crisis you could dance to, with an insistent opening riff that moved harmonically and went nowhere melodically.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Gordie 2009

  • "A Song from Under the Floorboards" was an existential crisis you could dance to, with an insistent opening riff that moved harmonically and went nowhere melodically.

    Song From Under the Floorboards Gordie 2009

  • Plancher de Jeannot (Jeannot's Floorboards) is the bedroom floor of a schizophrenic French farmer, carved with 80 lines of unpunctuated text.

    October 2005 2005

  • Floorboards creaked beneath her feet, and every cold brass doorknob she touched along the way sent chills racing up her spine.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Floorboards creaked beneath her feet, and every cold brass doorknob she touched along the way sent chills racing up her spine.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Floorboards pried themselves up as finishing nails burst through the wood like miniature geysers going off.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

  • Floorboards pried themselves up as finishing nails burst through the wood like miniature geysers going off.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

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