Ceorwyn lines a general path on the map pinned to the battered board set on a makeshift easel of lashed branches beside the table.

The three of them were playing Scrabble, not the popular on-screen version but a battered board game with plastic tiles that Calypso had kept from her childhood.

But she had been right, over the door of the largest cottage hung a wind battered board, its painted device long weathered away, but still proclaiming this an inn.

Now a Princeton freshman, Mr. Lavanture successfully competed at the Intel fair for each of the past three years, each time displaying his project on a battered board.

Creslin glances to the left of the covered walkway, from where the odors of animals waft, and then to the right, where peeling paint on a battered board above a closed double door bears the imprint of a cup and a bowl.

Now his mother wheeled him down Firehouse Street every day and propped him up so he could hear their talk and watch the endless rounds of checkers they played with a battered board and a set of purple and orange Nehi caps.