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    1. It's all the same, universal across the board


    2. No passenger ships had sailed since noonmeal, the next packet out was the Jemson's Luuker and she was ready to cast off so he had time for only the most cursory look but he did not find Venna or anyone answering her description on board, nor did he find her in any of the watering holes along the docks were someone would wait for a vessel's departure


    3. “Are we gonna board?” asked a Southern woman sitting behind Hermann


    4. The confusion, however, is not entirely over, for rather than accepting the carefully deliberated recommendations of the National Standards Board, Glickman declined to definitively prohibit three practices being used in producing organically grown foods


    5. “We’ve got some board games in the closet in the hallway


    6. Usually a sentence or equation would start on a white board written in black marker


    7. But after there was no more space, the writing would continue off the board and onto the wall, sometimes even making its way across the wall and onto a new white board


    8. They can be found on board ship, near food areas, bathrooms


    9. Their eggs are good travelers, hitch hiking on board container’s en route


    10. The countryside is flat as a board and mostly grassland, burned over by the summer sun

    11. He did it on board ship which probably explains why it was so lopsided


    12. He walks along a board walkway that leads to the temple


    13. professionals on board for the


    14. I also reasoned that if I could get local politics on board that this would give the Gardai and my worm of a boss Peter Dooley pause for thought before they tried to shut me down


    15. As I go through the door of the village hall, I’m greeted by Andy who’s hovering in the hallway reading the notices on the board in the entrance hall


    16. She told me that she was playing with an ouija board, and since then had been seeing visions of demons and ghosts


    17. The reason that she played with the ouija board in the first place was because she couldn’t express to her friends and family the guilt and shame she felt from her personal lifestyle


    18. sounding board in the form of an objective third party?


    19. There's a nice deep baggage shelf under your seat, and your footrest is the landing board


    20. Nobody would get hurt if they stayed on board

    21. These are a handful of perks that companies have offered in the past, and continue to offer to their followers in order to keep them on board


    22. and the endless orbit of the draining board,


    23. Use a spare white board or a poster if this helps


    24. Come, bring your bags on board and I will show you where you will be sleeping


    25. that everything is legal and above board” said Joe


    26. and the board will soon be retiring that sadistic brute,


    27. Berndt appears for lunch and the three of us pretend that nothing has occurred, spending a pleasant afternoon taking it in turns to play the board game Berndt taught me on the barge … as then, he thrashes both Joris and I mercilessly


    28. There were about six of us flying to Bristol and once on board I sat as far apart from the others as I could just in case they started chatting about the weather, or politics, or even worse, sport


    29. "We're all on wake shift," Desa said, "There's a new list written up and posted on the note board and signed by both of them


    30. But having said that, once on board, I was all hers

    31. The clapping swelled and swelled until everyone on board, even the crew, was standing round clapping


    32. Many of his furnishings were as lavish as the chamber itself and this board was one of them


    33. He smacked his fingers on the board in frustration


    34. That should be enough to cover his tracks from anyone who was still on board


    35. This leads me into wiping down the draining board, for which I need to run some hot water and before I know where I am, I’m wiping down the cupboard doors, rubbing at the marks on the fridge door and starting on the shelves


    36. 'It's beautiful,' Omi said as he joined me in looking at the board


    37. She had not left a note on their bulletin board, but he found her already in the bedroom


    38. He was also offered a promotion to the position of Head of Light Entertainment with the BBC, which would have been fabulous had someone on the board of governors not insisted on inserting a clause in his contract forcing him to keep a whole twenty percent of the schedule for factual content


    39. This left the way open for the group to board a ship and take off


    40. You may also want to submit the draft charter to the staff of your sponsoring agency and/or school board for review

    41. "We don't know, but the possibility exists and we have had a spy on board," Kelvin said


    42. "We've had an unknown on board


    43. 'We have a board meeting every Monday


    44. The board would be in a better mood if India won


    45. the four washed mugs on the draining board, nearly fainting with


    46. Most of the women on board found the females to be great companions, and each species shared small secrets with the other


    47. “When you first board the ship and the hatch opens, look for a thin strip of blue metal


    48. This is unheard of; the Scathers believe females are inferior; they would never allow females on board a ship


    49. “And she insisted you be by her side while on board the Sword?” Alexei nodded, “…hmm, she sees you as her protector?”


    50. As we are stacking the dishes on the draining board, there’s a knock at the back door – Sally, glancing at the clock, runs to open it














































    1. boarded the train and found, to my surprise, that my consultant was


    2. The shop was prominent not because of any ostentation, but rather because any open business stood out on the half boarded up and derelict empty shell of Darklow Main Street


    3. They were taking the carry-ons as you boarded, without warning, without time


    4. Menachem rose and walked over to the boarded window


    5. Cosmicblasto and Catwhiskers boarded Ethereead


    6. He could have boarded a number of native rafts by now


    7. After my mother died, I was placed in the care of the Carmelite Convent near Mullion until I was five and then boarded at St


    8. With a few essentials stuffed in a backpack, I'd boarded the shuttle at Newquay and woken up on Pani's island


    9. At last they came to a very down at heel street, where most of the back-to-back terraced houses were either boarded up or bare boned skeletons


    10. Luray came down too, so the trio who'd boarded logs in Yoonbarla a year and a half ago were standing together at the front rail

    11. lofted sand wedges, and then break into a boarded up flat


    12. He heard Glayet’s voice come on the line and he yelled, “We’ve been boarded, there’s a Brazilian agent aboard


    13. the back-to-back terraced houses were either boarded up or bare


    14. Tom and Alistair boarded another one of the


    15. That was where she boarded the local that she was found on


    16. So, with more pats on the back and more well wishes, Harry's debut of celebrity was officially inaugurated, and it wouldn't pass until he boarded that train next June


    17. since been removed and the floor boarded up


    18. They had until Wednesday afternoon before they boarded the White Star Lines ship, R


    19. His only connection to the case was that he had recently sold a home near the place where Tdeshi boarded the boat


    20. When Harry boarded the train for Great Malvern and his Entrance Examinations, he was accompanied by Mr

    21. The speakers in the station announced last call as they boarded the train


    22. Each animal had its own likes and dislikes to be sure, and each family that boarded their horses with the stable each had their own routines for the use of those animals


    23. his way home, he noticed the abandoned, boarded up


    24. He then proceeded to blow up every electrical device in his home, blocked every entrance, and boarded up his windows, then went to cower in his bedroom…


    25. When at last all provisions for the property and estate were concluded, they boarded the train for Tahoe and did not look back


    26. Rendrak stayed until Dara was two decades of age, but then on a log run to Hazorpean, boarded a ship for Zhlindu


    27. When he got back, Kaha sat with Alan in what once might have been a window ledge, but was now boarded in with some other room behind


    28. " He boarded it, and extended his hand to her


    29. When we boarded the jet I think we were all releaved to get out


    30. All the shutters were boarded off, all the doors barricaded shut

    31. was boarded and each occupant was forced to pay an


    32. I changed out of my mismatched stuff and left them for the stores NCO to burn then I boarded my train to begin the first part of my journey back home I sat back and closed my eyes as the train started but they soon flew wide open as the nightmares started again


    33. A short time later the door opened and in the light from the hallway I could see that the figure stood there was Mabel Smith Bert’s fiancé who boarded here at Ma Moffat’s


    34. She stepped back and stood with Beth and Mabel who looked concerned by her behaviour as I boarded the train


    35. He and other officers boarded her and fitted her out


    36. boats on a now rougher sea and shortly thereafter, boarded the


    37. Each of these men arrived alone at the dock where they boarded


    38. The tram came along and we boarded it further down the line and Nobby Clark got on and we all travelled together to the station although we were quite now that the tram was getting closer to town


    39. As we travelled along more and more soldiers boarded until we nearly filled the tram the civilians who were on board whished us well and god speed as the got off at their respective stops


    40. Eventually we boarded Lorries and were transported close to the front we the disembarked and started our march to ‘Dead Man’s Farm’

    41. We had a dog and three cats of our own, and we knew it wouldn’t be wise to try to keep him in the house while he was healing, so we boarded up our screened-in porch


    42. The Shenandoah boat crews boarded the four whaleships and the boarding officers received surrenders from the mates and crew


    43. The Cyane seamen then boarded the Chapman and captured her without resistance


    44. The cats were boarded for free by a kind local vet


    45. Once the men and whaleboats of the Sophia Thornton had been brought over to the Milo, the Milo crews again boarded the Thornton and loaded up with all the provisions they could gather from the ship’s stores to help provide for all the passengers


    46. An hour later, the whaler Isabella, also out of New Bedford, was approached, boarded, and condemned using the same procedures


    47. Shenandoah boarded the James Murry, the frightened widow approached the boarding officer with tears in her eyes and


    48. he had boarded the Confederation he found himself sitting on the bridge, preparing himself for the


    49. Rowing across the short distance, took no time and they boarded the fishing boat, drawing their short swords


    50. The lodge's windows were boarded up for obvious reasons, but the entrance was also locked













































    1. Boarding pass, check


    2. All carry-ons must be checked at boarding


    3. Wandering slowly through the concourse trying to kill time before takeoff I tried to give the impression of being a seasoned traveller with my hold-all draped casually over my shoulder whilst clutching a boarding pass to the land of mystery and imagination in my trouser pocket


    4. Finally the unremitting, almost desolate, sameness of the basin floor was interrupted by a small farming village and as Afternoonday of Iyosaign waned, on the anniversary of boarding Vyinga's ship, the ordeal was over


    5. I found myself remembering my holidays from boarding school and how Uncle Pantelis would rattle on, telling tales, pointing things out and singing some moody love song or other, mixing Greek and English in the same sentence


    6. Eventually, things Greek became a sort of unspoken family thing, something that was ours, something special, so I suppose that once I went to boarding school it was inevitable I'd take advantage of the subject dearest to my heart, something uncle called my 'second skin'


    7. I suppose I should have been impressed but even as the courtesy gig nudged the boarding steps, I had never felt so naked and exposed


    8. The Tournament was still a couple days off, and the stream of hopefuls continued to fill up the remaining vacancies in the hotel, inn, and boarding houses


    9. So when they noticed the twins not boarding as Belle approached from the house, they were ready


    10. Handkerchiefs at the ready and resolved against using them the twins steadied themselves on Harry's arms for a moment longer, then escorted him to the boarding ladder

    11. The Summer Season's tourist trade impacted the livery in every way, from the numbers of horses kept available rather than pastured and the space available for seasonal boarding, up to the obvious, that is: someone who knew both what they were doing and the current state of the livery to interact with the public at large


    12. Harold and Jameson took very little time situating themselves and were ready for breakfast in the Dining car very soon after boarding, although breakfast wouldn't be served for another two hours


    13. They entered the airport, got their boarding passes and left their luggage


    14. Passengers in business class were boarding when Sue returned to the cockpit with the coffee


    15. combination of a path cut into the rock and boarding


    16. Later, Doyle was sent away to boarding school and then college with funds probably paid for by his well-to-do relatives


    17. ‘You are a guest at Biggleswich Independent coeducational boarding school, set in the grounds of the fortified Abbey of Lilysworth


    18. ‘Is it a boarding school?’


    19. Ravena stepped forward to the boarding hatch


    20. He could see night sky and clouds, then he realised why - the ceiling was missing and bits of plaster boarding hung in trails

    21. Barrin himself wished to pay for his boarding with silver or labor, but Gerill would not accept


    22. ” The time really dragged now and I couldn’t wait to leave here though I thought I never would but the time came and I did boarding the hospital ship Asturias and then sailing that night in convoy for home


    23. in boarding schools all my life


    24. They had attended boarding school together


    25. These were called head spades, boarding knives, blubber pikes,


    26. He remembered her father! A desperate boy! They had been in the old school at the bottom of the village until they were ten or eleven, before Frank had been sent off to boarding school


    27. and the girls are at boarding school


    28. The Alena was on her first voyage, well equipped, beautifully clean, and nicely built as reported by the boarding party


    29. The Shenandoah boat crews boarded the four whaleships and the boarding officers received surrenders from the mates and crew


    30. The techniques of which, including water boarding (which is not torture) are anathema to liberals but, truth be told, have given us the information required to have nipped many planned terrorist attacks in the bud

    31. conspirators met at the boarding house of Mary Surratt, on the


    32. Since it was very cold outside on the deck of the Abigail, the nonchalant old skipper then invited the boarding officer inside to get something warm for his stomach while getting his papers in


    33. In no time at all, a boarding party from the Shenandoah went on board the Susan Abigail, advised Captain Redfield, the ship’s master, that he and his men were prisoners and that their ship


    34. Upon boarding, the skipper took it very hard and protested loudly of being hunted


    35. Consequently, when a boarding party from the


    36. Shenandoah boarded the James Murry, the frightened widow approached the boarding officer with tears in her eyes and


    37. Captain Hawes sent a boarding


    38. Being left alone at home whilst the owner is at work or being left at boarding kennels during vacations can result in separation anxiety in dogs


    39. I was welding on one of the after deck houses along with a girl that was going with my friend that lived at the same boarding house as I did


    40. Alex thought about his daughter, away at boarding school for most of the year, and even during her holiday still not here at his side

    41. He’d even considered hiring an au-pair at one point, but had sent Dawn to a boarding school instead, raising his guilt levels even further


    42. When York walked through the boarding gate at the airport my heart was heavy, aching for the close friendship we shared, but Spencer was waiting at the entrance to the block of flats with a bunch of flowers when I arrived home from the airport


    43. The boarding pass was printed and handed to him along with his passport


    44. Everyone considerately made their way toward the airport exit while I walked with Egan to the boarding gates


    45. I stood alone surrounded by strangers, staring at the boarding gates, wishing he would walk back through them


    46. I watched as Liam and Patty made their way through the boarding gates, reminded of Egan’s disappearance into thin air


    47. Many other methods were used of which water boarding was not one there being a water shortage in that place


    48. Many Filipino rebels and civilians were also tortured, including the first time US troops used water boarding against an enemy


    49. In one of the best known cases, Major Edwin Glenn was convicted of torture for water boarding prisoners, and only received a fine


    50. Fillmore's daughter only attended Catholic school for one year, and Fillmore may have chosen it simply because it was a boarding school














































    1. Along with simple activities such as dance, yoga, pilates and wobble boards, Tai Chi is one of the most effective things you can do and has both physical and social benefits


    2. ‘Yes, I have trodden the boards a few times


    3. It was a pity that no-one had thought it worthwhile to worry that the skirting boards didn’t line up where the dividing wall had obviously been taken out


    4. on splintered boards, is counted upon the draw


    5. I can just about hear the sound of their voices above the gentle sloshing of the sea against the boards forming the walls of my cabin, and to those soothing, reassuring sounds, I drift off to sleep quickly, rocked by the motion of The Aquarian


    6. A few were pulling on wet suits and carrying their boards down to the water


    7. The men sit playing cards or hunched over tavli boards in obedient silence on the slipway


    8. ironing boards, a defunct Hoover and piles of dirty washing, nor


    9. job boards are an amazing example


    10. bodies were as stiff as boards and refused to do what they might

    11. On the wall above the bed Ted has a collection of photographs, some of them signed, mementos garnered from a life on the boards


    12. dispatches” in the formal reports sent to the Boards of Control in both


    13. Guardians – to provoke a reaction so that the Boards would insist that


    14. “I’m hardly rich, I made a string of lucky real-estate deals and wound up with this home, and yeah, I’m doing better than the iron or two a week I would make off the boards, but my position at the Kassikan has to see us all thru in a bad turn


    15. two Boards, or indeed the interactions (if any) between the


    16. one of the outer Boards concerned with the management of the


    17. “That’s right,” he replied, “My father, and the Boards themselves,


    18. “He has a more minor role in the boards,” Briz replied, “In a


    19. He followed him out the door and around to the back of the house where stacks of boards lay in neat rows


    20. Large round timbers were sunk in the ground around a covered hole, and heavy boards attached to the house, boxed in the space above the ground, nearly as tall as himself

    21. His father transferred another bundle of boards onto the floor of the room and re-stacked them carefully


    22. His father handed him a spanner and showed him how to tighten the bolts of the bands until he could tighten no more, as his father then went back to the storeroom for another armful of pre-fitted moldings and boards


    23. He fetched more pieces of pipe with other odd bits and then pulled away some boards laying on the ground, heretofore unnoticed by anyone, which revealed a trench leading over to the side of the outhouse


    24. Before any time at all, he and Harry had run piping from the house to the outhouse and recovered the trench with soil to seat the pipe and the boards to protect them


    25. The great schedule boards loomed over the cathedral-like space


    26. Harry wrenched his gaze from the crowds and boards to follow him to the awaiting carriage, now loaded with their things


    27. on a new roof, gutted the interior, replaced boards in the floor and sanded and


    28. “So the upshot of all this,” Bram concluded, “Was that the Boards


    29. littered the workspace, and chopping boards were stacked


    30. Some of the boards were newer than

    31. First I headed to the shelving section because I thought maybe I'd find something that was exactly 2-foot wide because I had this terrible vision that I would have to buy 6 foot long 1 x 6 boards that I would have to cut with a jigsaw into 2-foot pieces


    32. When I got up with my sales slip I just show her the one little piece of 2-foot wood and told her I basically started off with seven boards and Doug cut them into 21 little pieces


    33. There were lots of hawkers about, and labor boards pleaded for algal technicians, metallurgists and moldmakers with attractive rates, as well as the usual factory help


    34. If he's been here a few years working off the boards, how will we ever find him?"


    35. He stared at the floor boards in silence


    36. Alfred's pocket light continued to throw dancing blue-grey beams thru all the cracks, and there were many, many, wide spaces between boards, so it wouldn't have done any good to be silent if he did have a light


    37. But my grandchildren had the best idea they used their flat surf skimming boards and that worked a real treat


    38. ‘If he boards that ferry, we’re lost,’ said Jacques


    39. The child took one look through the broken floor, then lowered his head between the boards and vomited


    40. All of the doors and windows were sealed, covered over with boards or filled in with stone and mortar

    41. Tristan saw that his ball lay back at the tee and studying the angles carefully, saw that by using a rebounding effect of the side boards success could still be his


    42. A blur of silver-fire, the One Elf incinerated everything within arms-reach (which was a great deal of space considering the elf's incredible size), ending his hurricane of steel and silver in front of a pair of ten foot double doors fastened shut with boards and chain


    43. Then, with his dagger pressed against the door, the One Elf struggled to pry the boards from off the door


    44. He repeated the blow, again and again, chopping through the barricade of boards one by one


    45. With only five city blocks remaining before he reached the city's end, he pulled himself onto a slate tiled rooftop and continued on, crossing it to where another span of boards lay, connecting that rooftop to the next


    46. rol er, boards and others


    47. It still continues, however, to be the residence of the principal courts of justice in Scotland, of the boards of customs and excise, etc


    48. The people soaked in the beautiful scenery and then began to honor their deal by writing stories on the boards


    49. This was because, the scripts written on the boards were not allowed to be rubbed off


    50. and boards the bus














































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    Synonyms for "board"

    board gameboard add-in card circuit board circuit card plug-in control board control panel instrument panel panel dining table display board display panel table plank get on room fare meals mess victuals provisions food eats wood lumber two by four council committee cabinet board of directors board up cover paper embark put to sea lodge feed accommodate put up house care for bed

    "board" definitions

    a committee having supervisory powers


    a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes


    a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose


    food or meals in general


    a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view


    a table at which meals are served


    electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices


    a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities


    a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games


    get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)


    live and take one's meals at or in


    lodge and take meals (at)


    provide food and lodging (for)