An 'beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
My preserver sat half in and half out of the carriage, leaning his white, well-shaped hand upon the splashboard. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keeping his seat, of course) like the late lamented. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes for General Circulation] Reference
Polly sat on her trunk by the splashboard; and Tilly, crowded out, rode in on one of the cart-horses, a coloured bed-quilt pinned round her waist to protect her skirts. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
On the other side of Trotsky´s narrow kitchen is a porcelain wash basin and lead splashboard over which a few ramshackle shelves display the same talavera crockery from Dolores Hidalgo we´d bought years ago to stock our own cocina. From Wordnik.com. [Trotsky's Ghost] Reference
Sir Claude poked his stick at the splashboard of the cab. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
Dapple tore along as though the devil himself sat behind the splashboard. From Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
Get your weight right forward on the splashboard now that we are going uphill, nephew. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Stone] Reference
When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again. From Wordnik.com. [Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes] Reference
His jacket was of velveteen, and he had large, iron-shod boots, which were perched upon the splashboard in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
The animal reciprocated the coachman's compliment by promptly kicking the front splashboard of the carriage to smithereens. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
The stage came to a halt so violent that Jim Bailey lurched forward against the splashboard, the reins jerked out of his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Mrs. Vansuythen obeyed, but as Mrs. Boulte leaned forward, putting her hand upon the splashboard of the dog-cart, Kurrell spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Deodars] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Kitty Trenire] Reference
First, there was an old lumbering family volante, a sort of gig, with four posts or uprights supporting a canopy covered with leather, and with a high dash -- iron or splashboard in front. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
'Mine can go anywhere,' said Miss Mohun, crumpling herself up in some mysterious manner under the fur rug, while they drove off, her luggage sticking far off on either side of the splashboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
I again asked for my coat, but it was clear now that before offering to fight the florid-faced man with the mole over his left eyebrow I must have hung my coat upon the splashboard of his van. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference
Presently the driver noticed that a sturdy young rascal was on the point of climbing onto the splashboard; wherefore he cracked his whip and the britchka leapt forward with increased speed over the cobblestones. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
They stopped him at last at a turnpike-gate, and as the kicking-straps had given way soon after he started, he concluded the day's work by smashing the splashboard to pieces, his master escaping with difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Parables From Nature] Reference
A light spring-cart came lurching round the corner; and its driver, glancing from one to the other, drew rein sharply, dragging the rough-coated cob back with a slither on the splashboard, and bringing him to a stand between them. From Wordnik.com. [Shining Ferry] Reference
At the highest ecstacy of speed, Sunday turned round on the splashboard where he stood, and sticking his great grinning head out of the cab, with white hair whistling in the wind, he made a horrible face at his pursuers, like some colossal urchin. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare] Reference
"Here's the buggy," said Wally, and in a moment Murty and Boone were on the scene, when it was the work of a few minutes to tie the prisoner with halters and hoist him into the buggy, where he lay very uncomfortable, with his head close to the splashboard. From Wordnik.com. [Mates at Billabong] Reference
But after a spell of going he decided there was life in him yet, and holding him with one arm, stretched the other over the splashboard, shaking the reins on the wheelers 'backs, and the way those horses buckled to their work was worth gettin' held up to see. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
They're off their feet, "and leaning over the splashboard, lashed at the undaunted little beasts until they raced up the opposite bank. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
Bess ’ere can sit by the splashboard.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
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