splashboard

Example Sentences

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Then they stopped altogether, and she felt the shock of hoofs upon the splashboard.

From Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Then, as I drew a matchbox from my pocket, he threw his reins over the splashboard, and removing his large, iron-shod boots he descended on to the road.

From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan

Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

Mrs. Vansuythen obeyed, but as Mrs. Boulte leaned forward, putting her hand upon the splashboard of the dog-cart, Kurrell spoke.

From Under the Deodars by Kipling, Rudyard

It was a two-handled bag, of japanned leather, and Doctor Unonius, as he took it from her and rested it against the splashboard, noted also that it was exceedingly heavy.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir