splashboard

Example Sentences

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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 struck her foot fretfully against the splashboard.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again.

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

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

From What Maisie Knew by James, Henry

I found that the clock on the splashboard required winding, and was in the act of doing this when my eyes fell upon a second person who was equally a mystery.

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William