kerbstone

The zappee only has to fall badly and hit his head on a kerbstone and he could be dead.

“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

The practise of harmonising popular tunes by ear became popular throughout the 1920s in places where men met up regularly – in barbershops, for instance, although the style was also referred to as "kerbstone harmony".

The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project – and smile! 2010

We suspect that she had a brief faint when at the wheel last week, when she bumped against a kerbstone.

Doctor, doctor: My friend has fainting fits but she's still driving 2010

Detectives said the kerbstone, which has the inscription "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was taken sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

But there was nothing funny about the crunching thud as his forehead bounced off the kerbstone.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

But there was nothing funny about the crunching thud as his forehead bounced off the kerbstone.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

I did the only thing possible in that mental tumult; I walked straight to the kerbstone and held up my umbrella for a cab.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

The wheels of a cab grazed the kerbstone, a murmured direction followed.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

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.

Over the River 2004