There are people clinging in clusters to each of the straps, and even the platforms between the cars are crowded to the very couplings.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Within Jatupon's sleep there were at first tire swings and butterflies nestling on succulent flowers but then on the flowers there was the perfidious couplings of mosquitoes.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
The couplings were bad and the train soon broke into three portions.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts