splashboard

Example Sentences

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She struck her foot fretfully against the splashboard.

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

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

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

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

Mrs. Vansuythen obeyed, but as Mrs. Boulte leaned forward, putting her hand upon the splashboard of the dog-cart, Kurrell spoke.

From Under the Deodars by Kipling, Rudyard