splashboard

Example Sentences

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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

The sudden jerk had also sent the driver over the splashboard, but like a good horseman, he steadied himself with the reins and landed on his feet.

From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)

She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

John took the hint and lashed the horses with his long whip; while Mouti, bending forward over the splashboard, thrashed the wheelers with a sjambock.

From Jess by Haggard, Henry Rider

There is a splashboard, an unusual luxury in carriages of this kind.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon