Skirting Boards

He spent the morning wandering about the room and scratching at the skirting-boards and door. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

A pair of "silver cupids, nicely poised on their brands," support a wood fire, which it is an occupation to keep from extinguishing; and all the illusion of a gay orange-grove pourtrayed on the tapestry at my feet, is dissipated by a villainous chasm of about half an inch between the floor and the skirting-boards. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

But it won't have any brass to keep clean, or any skirting-boards with pretty tops to catch dust, or any corners in the rooms. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

Not many years ago the compiler saw traces of the holes the poet had cut in the skirting-boards of the room for their ingress and egress, that they might have ampler room for wandering. ❋ Adam White (1848)

A pair of “silver cupids, nicely poised on their brands,” support a wood fire, which it is an occupation to keep from extinguishing; and all the illusion of a gay orange-grove pourtrayed on the tapestry at my feet, is dissipated by a villainous chasm of about half an inch between the floor and the skirting-boards. ❋ Lady, An English (1797)