It is light, elegantly proportioned, painted, varnished-the work rather of a coachbuilder than a cartwright.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"With no more harm done than to give the coachbuilder a job, eh?
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The admiring lady was the wife of a retired coachbuilder, who was painfully anxious to make her way into good evangelical society at Littlebath.
"Miss Mackenzie"
Anthony Trollope