"Tailboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... back of the wagon. He dropped the tailboard, backed around, and got a bag on his shoulders. With this he staggered ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... quality. He compared notes with Charterson upon a speeding-up system for delivery vans invented by an American specialist and it made Blenker flush with admiration and turn as if for sympathy to Lady Harman to realize how a modification in a tailboard might mean a yearly saving in wages of many thousand pounds. "The sort of thing they don't understand," he said. And then Sir Isaac told of some of his own little devices. He had recently taken to having the ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... grunt from the recesses of the lorry. Then a round and ruddy face rose like a harvest moon above the tailboard, and ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... that she walked steadily and erect, without that slight affectation of lameness common to people with whom bare feet are only an episode. Indeed, it was only four years ago, that without shoes or stockings, a long-limbed, colty girl, in a waistless calico gown, she had leaped from the tailboard of her father's emigrant-wagon when it first drew up at Chemisal Ridge. Certain wild habits of the "Rose" ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte
... could come to kill each other for it. For a fairly sensible, hard-headed fellow it was pretty quick work, I acknowledge; but let any man have seven years of Western life without seeing a woman worth speaking of, and then meet Miss Cullen, and if he didn't do as I did, I wouldn't trust him on the tailboard of a locomotive, for I should put him down as defective both ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds |
