bottom-over-tops

Updated: May 1, 2025

The streets were werry full, but Sir Wincent wormed his way among the coal-wagons, wans, busses, coaches, bottom-over-tops, in wulgar French, "cow sur tate," as they calls the new patent busses trucks, cabs, &c., in a marvellous workmanlike manner, which seemed the more masterly, inasmuch as the leaders, having their heads at liberty, poked them about in all directions, all a mode Francey, just as they do in Paris.

Robert Smith Surtees - Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities