Tommy lay with his face to the street, his sketch-book clutched in the hand of one flung-out arm, the other arm pinned to his side, with a twelve-foot plank across his back and two poles across his legs.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Venables lifted away the plank: it took most of his strength; then he moved the poles.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
After a little time Nasmyth rose, and, stepping on the plank, wearily straightened his back.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton