Coppers
[kɔpəz]
Examples
- He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Without these there might never have been the romance of Coppers and the rise and fall of countless fortunes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I brought out some coppers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holyday, filled my pocket with coppers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- About half a score were cutting bread and butter, another half-score supplying hot water, brought from the coppers of the rector's kitchen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag in which I carried my takings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Kathleen