book-board

"Angus, wait," she murmured again, her dainty gloved hand upon the book-board as she essayed to rise.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

His defense was plausible, since he never slept exposed; but always with his head bowed upon the book-board, esteemed by the uncharitable as the attitude of slumber, but explained by Wattie as the posture of undistracted thought and pious meditation.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

All the gowk in him came uppermost; he did not know what he was doing; he put the Bible awkwardly on the book-board in front of him, and it, too, slid to the floor with a noise even more alarming than that of the rolling sweet.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

A glow went over him, and unknowing what he did he put forward his hand to take his Bible off the book-board.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Every child turned its head and watched him while he ducked his head on to the book-board for a second, and then sat upright, adjusting his neck into his collar.

Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

"Amen to yon!" cried MacCailein, beating his hand on a book-board, and

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I felt like my feet would leave the floor of the stand so that I involuntarily grasped the book-board.

The John Lawson Monographs of the Trinity College Historical Society Durham, North Carolina Vol. 1. The Autobiography of Brantley York 1910

The General read the first lesson in a brisk and business-like monotone, and when he had finished his grandsons applauded noiselessly under the book-board.

The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

As the congregation rose for prayer, Mrs. Murray noticed Peter Ruagh appear from beneath the book-board and quietly slip out by the back door with his hand to his face and the blood streaming between his fingers; and though Ranald was standing up straight and stiff in his place, Mrs. Murray could read from his rigid look the explanation of Peter's bloody face.

The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898

There are a certain number of big boys here, who have an offensive habit of putting their heads down upon their arms on the book-board during a sermon, and courting sleep.

The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893