Ape suddenly bared his kerbstone teeth to the gums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

The zappee only has to fall badly and hit his head on a kerbstone and he could be dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

But there was nothing funny about the crunching thud as his forehead bounced off the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers & Sons] Reference

The child sat down on the kerbstone, pulled his brother down beside him, and broke the bun in halves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willie the Waif] Reference

An old man came out of the house against whose kerbstone I was parked and asked if I wanted anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

We suspect that she had a brief faint when at the wheel last week, when she bumped against a kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor, doctor: My friend has fainting fits but she's still driving] Reference

For a stream of light expanded wedge-wise from the door, which was flung open as a carriage drew up to the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference

If vehicle damage recurs frequently, the drains should be protected by some form of barrier such as a rail or a kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Rehabilitation and maintenance] Reference

On the kerbstone, a knot of the latter, tittering among themselves, shot furtive glances at Dove and Maurice as they passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

My honely Brother was withdrawn from 'Arrow, and now' as the yumiliation of selling penny toys on the kerbstone to his former playfellers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891] Reference

Joe loudly, 'or else find yourself lodgings on the kerbstone.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [England, My England] Reference

The child was lying sideways, with her face against the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the War] Reference

A file of waiting carriages lined the kerbstone the whole length of.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Excellency the Minister] Reference

Chihun thumped Moti Guj's bald head as a paviour thumps a kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

A carriage was drawn up by the kerbstone; the doors of it were open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

He fell down on th 'kerbstone and wouldn't get up -- turned sulky like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

The wheels of a cab grazed the kerbstone, a murmured direction followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

He stood there on the kerbstone, and all they could do 'e wouldn't budge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains All and Others] Reference

It may occur also from tripping on a loose stone or slipping off the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

A man does not discuss his wife's virtue or his soul's salvation on the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference

Winchester-educated voice was simultaneously hard and imperfect, like a chipped kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

He reached the corner of the street like a blind man, by tapping the kerbstone with his cane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kingdom of the Blind] Reference

So I avoided their looks, shrinking close to the kerbstone and by furtive glances directing my progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

Moreover, the English themselves use curb as a verb and in all noun senses save that shown in kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies] Reference

A little girl whose name was Suzette was picked up from the edge of the kerbstone out of a pool of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the War] Reference

I did the only thing possible in that mental tumult; I walked straight to the kerbstone and held up my umbrella for a cab.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

Olive Moreton gave a little start as the long, grey, racing car came noiselessly to a standstill by the side of the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kingdom of the Blind] Reference

That day I wore a grey silk dress, and I remember lifting the skirt up as we passed the door and hitting the kerbstone with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

And the carriage rolled on, leaving her there, crouched on the kerbstone, gazing after it with something between a laugh and a moan.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

But she waited at the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Dalloway] Reference

I picked her off the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pygmalion] Reference

Men occupied the pavement to the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852] Reference

All this as the cab rested by the kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference

For a chain's length the kerbstone is bathed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25] Reference

After tripping on a kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I saw … there was blood on the kerbstone.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]