Curbstones

They stumbled over curbstones because they were looking at my thighs. ❋ Polly Vernon (2010)

It has been a tatty, poorly-maintained mess for decades and the presence of fresh bombsites on streets already lined with broken curbstones and jerry-built buildings did not make any great difference. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

Protestants flew the Union Jack and painted their curbstones red, white, and blue; Catholics flew the Irish flag and painted their curbs orange, white, and green. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dressed stone is used to make curbstones for streets, flagstones for roofs and walkways, and other decorative uses such as for carvings and statues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The two solid side-walls of the archway were covered, to a height of six feet, with a permanent dado of mud formed of the splashes from the gutter; for, in those days, the foot passenger had no protection from the constant traffic of vehicles and from what was called the kicking of the carts, but curbstones placed upright at intervals, and much ground away by the naves of the wheels. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The streets and cars were surfaced in ash and there were garbage bags stacked high at curbstones and against the sides of buildings. ❋ Don DeLillo (2007)

The street and cars were surfaced in ash and there were garbage bags stacked high at curbstones and against the sides of buildings. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

We're in a black Toyota Land Cruiser, which is inappropriate for the city, but Patrick needs a big vehicle, otherwise he'd have nowhere to keep his collection of curbstones. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I saw a black mob in Liberty City drag three Cuban kids from a car and crush their heads into pulp with curbstones. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

They drove out of McGuire into Dix, following narrow roadways with whitewashed curbstones through blocks of warehouses and barracks. ❋ Child, Lee (2000)

Although it is spring, even warmer than in Tyrhavven and Vergren, he sees no flowers, no colors except the greens of shrubs and grass and the whites of the curbstones and pavement. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

I went to buy this awesome car I saw on Craigslist for super cheap and he told [me he'd] [owned it] for five years and done all kinds of maintenance on it. But when I looked at the title it didn't have his name on it and had been [signed off] a month ago! Fucking curbstoner! ❋ Obey The Hypnotoad (2013)

I [totally] curbstoned this [crip]!!! ❋ G-7 (2008)