splashboard
Example Sentences
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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 K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
It was a two-handled bag, of japanned leather, and Doctor Unonius, as he took it from her and rested it against the splashboard, noted also that it was exceedingly heavy.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I seized the reins in the nick of time, just as they were slipping over the splashboard, and bracing myself for the effort, succeeded in bringing the team to a standstill.
From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery
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 Joseph Conrad
