coachman-built

Updated: May 12, 2025

John drew his pipe slowly out of his mouth he was a big, heavy, coachman-built sort of person, in waistcoat and shirt-sleeves and answered with a kindly smile, 'Why, Martha, if you want to take 'em for 'arf a suvveran, in course you'd ought to do it. Got a baby, pore thing, 'ave she now? Well, there, there, you just go this very minnit, and tell 'em as you'll take 'em.

Grant Allen - Philistia