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

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

Polly sat on her trunk by the splashboard; and Tilly, crowded out, rode in on one of the cart-horses, a coloured bed-quilt pinned round her waist to protect her skirts.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

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)

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