chair rail

In another moment I was standing outside the hovel, my chair-rail in my hand, every muscle of me quivering.

A chair-rail should be made in the dining-room of quarter-inch strips fastened to the walls three inches above the floor.

He crawled on his hands and knees until he reached the chair-rail, which he clutched desperately, drawing himself up.

I saw the top of the head over the chair-rail, and knew it was Sandy Carmichael's.