splashboard

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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