splashboard

Example Sentences

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Sir Claude poked his stick at the splashboard of the cab.

From What Maisie Knew by James, Henry

Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.

From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx

She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

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

I have a bag close at hand on the splashboard, where I keep the road-book or guide, the map of the county through which I am passing, and my pens, ink, pencils, and note-books.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon