splashboard

Example Sentences

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Ben stood aside then but, as the carriage passed him, he laid his hand on the splashboard and walked beside it.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

She struck her foot fretfully against the splashboard.

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

Some of them hit and flattened on the gable of the railway-official's house, one went through the leathern splashboard of the spider.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

The stage came to a halt so violent that Jim Bailey lurched forward against the splashboard, the reins jerked out of his hands.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

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