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  • The general we had then – it seemed as if she did all the cooking on the cookery-book instead of on the baking-board, there were traces of so many bygone meals upon its pages.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • "I sent him a note," Nellie answered, turning around from the baking-board.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • "I sent him a note," Nellie answered, turning around from the baking-board.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • Daniel, his eyes shining and his lips parted, was just making up his mind that he would rather be the captain of a fishing-smack than anything else in the world, since he knew he could n't be a pirate, when his mother came to the fireplace with a layer of corn-meal dough spread on a baking-board.

    The Puritan Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

  • The general we had then -- it seemed as if she did all the cooking on the cookery-book instead of on the baking-board, there were traces of so many bygone meals upon its pages.

    New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891

  • After contemplating this pleasant sight for a few minutes he returned to the outer or kitchen-dino-drawing-room, where he found a cot extemporised out of four chairs and a baking-board, on which reposed the sturdy little figure of Fred Crashington.

    Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade 1859

  • Nelly shut the door, and leaned a baking-board against it.

    The Battle and the Breeze 1859

  • In passing, he pulled Fred off the baking-board, and at the same moment seized the curious old helmet, and almost instinctively clapped it on his own head.

    Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade 1859

  • That enthusiastic amateur fireman had been invited to take up his quarters at Number 5, until his father should be out of danger, and having devoted his energies during the entire day, along with the Rosebud, in a futile effort to extinguish that obstinate fire in the cupboard, had at length been persuaded to retire exhausted to the baking-board, where he lay with a happy smile on his parted lips, and his right arm embracing the quaint old helmet, with which he was wont to extinguish his little head.

    Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade 1859

  • _Bagebord_; Eng., baking-board) she is about to knead dough (Dan.,

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 Various 1836

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