With a flying leap he caught the tailboard in his hand, and after being dragged along with great giraffe-like bounds for nearly a block managed to draw himself up to something like a sitting position.
The coachman had discovered his unlawful presence on thetailboard and had reached him with just the tip end of his whip.
I jerked out the tailboard and dumped the mess on the ground, while about forty men stood around just yellin' and hootin' with delight.
Some elevators are arranged to take grain slowly from under the tailboardof a wagon box.
The sides of the box are permanently fastened but bothtailboard and front board are held in place by cleats and rods and are removable so that long scantling or lumber may be carried on the cart bottom.
The tailrod is removed and the tailboard raised half an inch or an inch, according to the capacity of the machinery.
To find it we have only to draw a line upwards through the two stars in the tailboard of the waggon and on into space.
There are many other stars of two colours even among the few constellations we have picked out to-night, as, for example, the star at the top of the tailboard of Charles's Waggon and the second horse Mizar.
Jes then the red waggin hit a stone in the middle o' the street, an' she pitched so hard she hove her tailboard right up into the air an' overboard.
Getting the men and horses back onto the cars, I jumped up on the tailboard and ordered the runner to pull out for Flagstaff.
Mr. Purdy, bruised from head to foot and rapidly getting sober, emitted language in jerks and grabbed at the tailboard as the wagon box dropped two feet, leaving him in the air.
He slid against the side and then jammed against the tailboard again and reached for it in desperation.
The bright vista which had been his that day he sat swinging his legs over thetailboard of the truck as it ground up Mount Lookout had changed to a thing of gloomy clouds and of ominous futures.
A running leap, and Fairchild seated himself on the tailboard of the truck, swinging his legs and looking out over the fading plains as the truck roared and clattered upward along the twisting mountain road.
Illustration] The kerosene lantern hanging over thetailboard cast its glow for no great distance.
Her eyes strayed from the tailboard of the wagon on which she stood, over the scene around her.
He led her away from the lighted tailboard back into the shadows.
He was a junk gentleman and had lost the tailboard out of his wagon and been strewing horseshoes all along the way.
To make a vast fortune and then lose the tailboard out of your hearse and dump your wealth on a lazy world merely causes the growler to circulate rapidly.
Isoult heard a man’s laughter, and, turning about, saw a face with a forked red beard look at her over the tailboard of the wagon.
He rested his elbows on the tailboardof the wagon, and cleaning his teeth with the point of his tongue, stared at Isoult with an insolent relish that made his red-brown eyes look like points of hot metal.
Isoult, sitting on her straw, with a face that looked straight over the tailboard of the wagon, felt that she had sat all day close to a great water-wheel that rushed round and round and never slackened.
With a sudden spring from the tailboard of the wagon Bruce Gilhooley reached the yoke, fiercely goading the oxen onward.
When Bruce Gilhooley had sprung from the tailboard of the wagon in that moment of tumultuous panic he had not noticed the bundle of straw dislodged.
One of his comrades, seated on the tailboard of the wagon, had discerned a significance in the abrupt silence.
Bruce sprang upon the tailboard to ride, the dogs chased the cow and calf to the crossing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tailboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
