"Ribbing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from his chair and went out into the cold and darkness. When he came back, ribbing his knuckles for warmth, he stood before the fireplace and ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... if built on the excellent Isherwood principle, looks entirely different. The transverse ribs are there, of course, but in a modified form. They do not catch the eye, which now, instead of being drawn from side to side, is led along from end to end by what looks like, and really is, a complete ribbing of internal keels. The whole system has, in fact, been changed from the transverse to ...
— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood |
