He thrust the violin under his sharp little chin, the thin fingers of his left hand reaching across the fingerboard, his left wrist curving into position.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
He then saw him run up his Fingers to the end of the fingerboard of the Violin, and run them back insensibly, and all with alacrity, and in very good tune, which he nor any in England saw the like before."
"Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday"
Henry C. Lahee
"Mamma," said Constance, "if you permit such a thing, I shall hope that memory will be a fingerboard of remorse to you," pointing to Miss Ringgan's pale cheeks.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell