A bleached spot showed where his brother's blood had been scrubbed from the bare planks.

In a moment she had a light going, and looked down at the knife that lay on the bare planks.

The rowers must sleep on their benches, or on bare planks.

Most of the men dropped where they stood and slept like the dead on the bare planks for twelve hours, oblivious to further showers.

They slept on the ground or on bare planks, with a stone for a pillow, and slept for only four hours.

His eyes flicked open and stared unseeing at the bare planks above.

The team leader pushed the cabin door open, letting the afternoon sunlight spill across the bare planks of the floor.

While his father sat at his desk Hal knelt on the bare planks of the deck.

They climb down to the bare planks at the base of the tunnel.

Amanak's gang hewed through their mass and sped across bare planks beyond.