They needed less attention than the others had required, for when I explained that the house was theirs, they went about their work swiftly and silently, getting in no one's way and attending to every want of their mistress, who sat in her coupe and gave orders.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Your carriage is a coupe, and I cannot think of crowding you.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
The fore-wheel of the coupe had been taken from the axle, and in the difficulty of so doing, from the excellence of the workmanship, two of the spokes were broken-the patent box was a mass of rent metal, and the end of the axle turned downwards like a hoe.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)