dos-a-dos

In addition, the numbering system included single titles (either short novella length stories or longer, often abridged, stories that had originally been published in hardback) as well as the dos-a-dos (back-to-back) volumes.

Archive 2006-07-09 Bill Crider 2006

From the railway station at Batavia the comfortless "dos-a-dos," colloquially known as the _sado_, a vehicle resembling an elementary

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

About a hundred yards from her windows, to the rear, were the open windows of a church which fronted the next street, and stood dos-a-dos to the dwelling of the Madisons.

The Flirt 1912

About a hundred yards from her windows, to the rear, were the open windows of a church which fronted the next street, and stood dos-a-dos to the dwelling of the Madisons.

The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

Each saddle is built for four passengers, sitting dos-a-dos, back to back, two on a side, and a little shelf hangs down to support their feet.

Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

There are plenty of Hansoms and all sorts of other conveyances, but I gave F--- no peace until he took me for a drive in a vehicle which was quite new to me -- a sort of light car with a canopy and curtains, holding four, two on each seat, _dos-a-dos_, and called a "jingle," -- of American parentage, I fancy.

Station Life in New Zealand 1871

Even then we should be no longer _vis-a-vis_ as before, but _dos-a-dos_, almost on the instant of our approaching!

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

Her lady mother divided her thoughts between what this could mean, and whether Mr. Tremlet would come to the ball; and when, presently after, in the dos-a-dos, she forgot to look at her daughter, on seeing that gentleman enter, she lost a very good opportunity for a guess at the cause of Lady Imogen's paleness.

Romance of Travel 1840

I particularly like this one because I had a go at this 'dos-a-dos' binding and it's difficult!

Much of a muchness 2009