She stood kicking her heel against the surbase, silently watching the sparkling machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

Rub the bedsteads in the joints with equal parts of spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, and the cracks of the surbase in rooms where there are many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

The best parlor is a little, dingy room, low of ceiling, and skirted with a sombre-colored surbase, above which is papering, the original color of which it would be difficult to discover.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Where, round the hall, the oak's high surbase rears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

For a final safeguard, Garson searched for and found the telephone bell-box on the surbase below the octagonal window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Law] Reference

In Paris there was no one afraid of her; no humble matrons to quail as her severe eyes surveyed wall and ceiling, floor and surbase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovels of Arden] Reference

On the surbase is an inscription from the pen of Dr. Mills, stating the fact of the erection of the monument at the expense of Lord Dalhousie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference

If so, you'd better (puff) some for dinner, and get the best (wheeze) decanters out; and, Murry Ann, there are two gibbeys on the (puff) surbase at the back of the bed, which you may as well (puff) away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

To the top of the surbase is fourteen feet from the ground; on this rests a sarcophagus, seven feet three inches high, from which rises an obelisk forty-two feet eight inches in height, and the apex is two feet one inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference

The house is large and there was a number of apartments lighted up, which received great Addition from the manner in which all the fine rooms are furnished here, which is up to the surbase, where our rooms are painted, with a sort of china-tiles, as we do the inside of chimneys in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776] Reference

At a late hour I received your letter by Charles if it is in my power to obtain the plain for the surbase of the Hall before Charles Starts I Shall do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1825] Reference

The party was a bachelor's one, and, when we walked up the front steps, there was our host in person, standing to receive us at the door; while, on each side of him, there were five or six of his visitors, all sitting with their legs cocked up, their feet resting on a sort of surbase, above which the jealousies, or movable blinds of the piazza, were fixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference