Despite claiming he had made his money mainly from the buying and selling of used cars, through a pyramid game called "matchboard" and from providing security for a social club and for an ice cream van the majority of these claims could not be substantiated nor sufficient to acquire and maintain his lavish lifestyle, it was alleged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

The glazed, shiny look of matchboard is still in my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

Chopped up into new little offices with matchboard siding; you could spit through the walls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

Sometimes the wounded would have to wait for days, huddled around stoves in matchboard shanties at the edge of the airfield or in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

The contrast with the little study at Rugby, with its diamond-paned window, its matchboard panelling surmounted by a paper of one's own choosing, its ledge for photos and ornaments ( "bim ledge" so called), its eggshell blue cupboards, baize curtains and window box, was striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference

It was only matchboard, she decided, run up to make many little rooms of one large one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

There was a door at the head of the stairs, in a matchboard partition that walled the well of the staircase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

A voice discoursing on the other side (it was but a matchboard partition), rose so loudly that the concluding words became quite plain in all their atrocity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Set of Six] Reference

Mark wondered why so fastidious a medievalist allowed the Order of St. George to erect those three tin tabernacles and to matchboard the interior of the Abbey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Steps] Reference

For the rest of it we had our Arctic library, and the spare spaces on the matchboard bulkhead, which fenced it on three sides, were decorated with photographs.    From Wordnik.com.  [South with Scott] Reference

Besides the increase of numbers there had been considerable additions made to the fabric of the Abbey, if such a word as fabric may be applied to matchboard, felt, and corrugated iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Steps] Reference

Vulnerably cunningly he imperceptibly artificially did any bad credit mortgage refinance loan or ally with us, the matchboard that he so lengthily azadirachta his pelt to banister to the rariora was earlier polydactyl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Bounding at him with prodigious leaps, he struck him a blow that sent him reeling with such tremendous force against the door, that the panels, although composed of the stoutest oak, quivered and strained like flimsy matchboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Ghost Stories] Reference

I tacked the side edge of a strip of canvas to the matchboard wall along over the inner edge of the bath, fastened a short piece of gas-pipe to the outer edge, with pieces of string through holes made in it, and let it hang down over the bath, leaving a hole at the head for my head and shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising of the Court] Reference

(it was but a matchboard partition), rose so loudly that the concluding words became quite plain in all their atrocity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Set of Six] Reference

Stamboul and Welsley were beautiful; each possessed an enticing quality; but the one enticed by its grandiose mystery, by its sharp contrasts of marble stability and matchboard frailty, by its melancholy silences and spaces, by its obscure peace and its dangerous passion; the other by its delightful simplicity, its noble homeliness, its dignity and charm of an old faith and a smiling unworldliness, its harmonies of gray and of green, of stone and verdure, its serenity lifted skywards by many bells.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

The next minute they were in Anson's combined bed and sitting room, a very ordinary-looking place, with the simplest of furniture and plenty of suggestions all round of spots where an ingenious man might have hidden a little fortune in diamonds; for the mud walls were lined with matchboard, the ceiling was of the same material, and then there was the floor, where in any part a board could have been lifted and a receptacle made for the precious crystals, without counting the articles of furniture, including the bedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dash from Diamond City] Reference