splashboard

Example Sentences

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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 Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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)

Kitty, greatly relieved, was fastening the reins to the splashboard before getting down to light the lamps, when a man appeared around the corner of the house, and came towards her.

From Kitty Trenire by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

But the chase, if chase were given, was vain from the first: for Dapple tore along as though the devil himself sat behind the splashboard.

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

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