splashboard

Example Sentences

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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 Avery, Harold

When he did so reach it he became alive to the fact that a Cape cart, outspanned, with its harness hung over the splashboard, stood before the door.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

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

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 The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan

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