brick-top

The boy mentioned by my chum here, has a brick-top like that.

The Boy Scouts of Lenox Frank V. Webster

And so it looked to the audience when the long row of men were tied up like dummies in sacks that reached to their necks; for, after the first muddle at the start, two small brick-top figures went bouncing along in the lead, like hot-water bags with red stoppers in them.

The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

Why, her mother 'n' mine used to borrow cupfuls of flour of each other over the back fence, and it was to lick a feller who'd yelled "brick-top" after Sadie that started me to takin 'my first boxin' lessons in Mike Quigley's barn.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

The complaints were all similar: "He asked me to bathe his mangy dog;" or, "He ordered me to stand at attention when rocking the damned cradle, so precious are his 'brick-top brats';" or, "She," for Mrs.B. was not angelic, "wanted me to fan the flies off her ring-tailed cat while that animal chose to nap;" and so they ran.

Bamboo Tales J. Alexander [Illustrator] Mackay 1905

He had come to the roof with an improved regard, got by his fall in the cabin, for the "'Piscopalian play-actoh," and with brute shrewdness was glad to make an outward show of good-will to Gilmore, and accepted with avidity every pretty advance of Gid Hayle's "bodacious brick-top gal."

Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

An 'also an' mo'oveh I p'otess ag'in 'any mo' leadin's f'om them-ah 'Piscopaliam play-actohs, an' still mo 'f'om that-ah bodacious brick-top gal o' Gid Hayle's.

Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884