Sometimes the music stopped, while players or singers scrambled for the coppers thrown to the boats by passengers on deck.
Then she threw some coppersto the little boys, who immediately handed them over to the man at the cooking stall.
Husbanding my scanty store of coppers as well as I could, I haunted Thames Street in the hope that I might pick up a coaster at the King's Head, where, in those days, skippers of small craft used to get most of their crews.
This is really boiled bread, with the addition of some skimmed grease from the coppers in which the meat is boiled.
When my native servant appeared in the cabin, a shower ofcoppers greeted him from the passengers.
She was shouting more loudly than the firemen or the crowd, waving her crutch and her arms, saying that her own children had turned her out and that she had lost two coppers in consequence.
The children and the coppers, the coppers and the children, were mingled together in an utterly incomprehensible muddle, from which every one withdrew baffled, after vain efforts to understand.
Her little store of coppers was dwindling fast, so fast that the beggars at the church doors would soon be richer than she was.
There were some coppers in her purse, but she had forgotten to bring that.
Upon each side of D, the two steam pipes for supplying the right and left hand coppers are seen; each provided with a stop cock for admitting, regulating, or cutting off the steam.
Such steam coppers are usually erected in pairs, and moved by a common horizontal bevel wheel seen at D in fig.
Each of these coppers can receive two, three or more parallel pieces of goods at a time, the reel and copper being divided into so many compartments by transverse wooden spars.
The precipitate is boiled in coppers till it be reduced to a consistent paste; it is then suffered to cool, and dried in the shade.
Three coppers are required, one round, about five feet in diameter, and 32 inches deep, for scouring the cotton; 2.
B and C are two coppers encased in brickwork; f the flue.
When large coppers have their bottoms planted in loam, so that the flame circulates in flues round their sides, they are said to be cold-set.
In short, there was no rent to pay, as there were plenty of empty mansions open to the poor, and a few coppers would have sufficed for food, easily contented and sober as one was.
And at one moment the enthusiasm became so intense that several women stripped themselves of their adornments, flung their own purses on to the platform, and emptied their pockets even to the very coppers they had about them.
Refined coppers are often free from lead, anything more than traces being seldom found; in coarse coppers it is sometimes present in considerable quantities.
Refined coppers do not carry phosphorus, although it may be present in "coarse copper" up to 1 per cent.
Coppers generally carry more iron the less arsenic they contain.
Good people give me coppers for singing--and now what?
I confess that that existence appeared then so empty and pitiful in my eyes that if any man had offered three coppers for it I would have told him to deliver the money.
The principal measured reserves are in the so-called porphyry coppers of the United States and Chile.
They sing aloud his praises, and as they pray and sing throw coppers and silver in heaps upon the altar steps, and pass out of the church into the sunlight again, knowing little of the lessons St. Francis spent his life in teaching.
It gives pleasure to myself and others, and enables me to gain a fewcoppers to buy my bread.
The crowds will come, when I whistle for them; and I get coppersby collecting crowds.
Curley Coppers the Jack VII "On Selby Flat we live in style; We'll stay right here till we make our pile.
That each family get back what they gave in, the food was placed in bags of netted twine and then slipped into the coppers of boiling water.
On regaining Yonge street, the horses were watered at a tavern, Jabez dropping five coppers on the counter, the price of two drinks.
Having done so she picked out five coppers from the money offered, and bade good-by with many a smile and nod.
But it was well there were no country coppers on that train.
One of these voracious country coppers who sing sweet hymns in jail is a more successful gun than them that hit the rocky path and take brash to get the long green.
We'd console ourselves at the Polo grounds, which we used to tear wide open, and where I never got even a hint of a fall; the coppers got their percentage of the touches.
He is a go-between, and is on good terms with coppers and grafters.
Grafters who work with the coppers don't want it known among those of their own kind, for they would be ostracized.
We fell quite often on these trips, but we were always willing to help the coppers pay for their lower flats.
The court held that the certificate delivered to Coppers was not a conveyance nor a grant and did not vest title to the land in him, and that the cemetery could not be compelled to execute and deliver to him an absolute conveyance of the lot.
Yet she too was a very woman, hungry for manly companionship and care, and, though a politician to the core, was saddened and soured by the suppression of her womanly nature.
There is about such a mind the emptiness of vanity coupled with all its noise--not unlike the noise which coppers make when they jingle in an empty pocket.
We do not mean to say that we have, or ever had, any objection to those coppers which long custom has hallowed, and which have been consecrated to charity.
I gave a negro lad who waited upon me a few cents, but a burly negro carver, who seemed to be his father, boxed the boy's ears and put the coppers into his pocket.
I tossed somecoppers to the children and gave each a sandwich.
They had worked for nothing through their three-score and ten, but avarice glared from their shrivelled pupils, and their last but greatest delight lay in the coppers and the dimes.
Soon another beggar joined the fellow, and we tossed a few coppers into the boat.
We had swimming matches among them, by attaching coppers to doura stalks and throwing them out into the stream, where they were instantly pursued and overtaken.
He was never weary of dropping coppers into that insatiable chimney-pot, and leaving them there.
So he took to meeting Feodora on the highway, and giving her coppers carefully marked.
Every morning the Strawberry collected all the sap which had run out of the trees, and poured it into the coppers which had been fixed up by Malachi, ready for a fire to be lighted under them.
The next morning Malachi went out into the woods, taking with him the coppers and all the trays on the sledge: during that day he was busy boring the trees and fitting the reed-pipes to the holes.
In a fortnight, they had collected sufficient liquor from the trees to fill both the coppers to the brim, besides several pails.
There are two large coppers in the store-room, not yet put up, which will answer our purpose very well, ma'am.
We will not batten on his charity," said he, and he cast three or four coppersinto the silent street.
It looks small; but they changed the coppers into silver at the restaurant for me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coppers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
