What is "coopers"

Usage examples of "coopers".

The powerful Liverpool own­ers of Belem Manor, the Coopers, had obeyed the ancient law of Heraclitus, that excess in anything eventually runs into its opposite, and their wealth had brought ease, refinement, an illusion that wealth needs no shepherding, and eventual ruin.

To have the Canadian dol­lars to restore the splendour which the Coopers had allowed to run to seed, and to be himself the master of a great house for which his father, the unfortunate Walter, had once sup­plied the liveries -- was that not a Paradise Regained, an adjustment of the balances of Fortune?

A century ago the pious Coopers used it not for portfolios, but for a gigantic Bible, which was thus displayed, opened each day to some edifying passage, in the Great Hall.

The Coopers had great faith in daily doses of religion for keeping the maidservants sweet and the menservants chaste, and upon the whole it worked -- the daily prayers, Sunday processions of the whole household to church, and a decidedly un-Christlike severity toward any backsliders, pregnant housemaids or light-fingered footmen.

The Coopers had fitted them out with garden figures of shepherds and shepherdesses carved in stone, not at all bad of their kind, and for their period.

The Coopers had lived at Belem Manor in high style through most of the nineteenth century, until only one old Miss Cooper was left, writhen by arthritis in the Welsh damp and cold, and with just enough money to see her into her grave.

Wherry-Smith bent his neck to the rougher yoke of two depictions of Napoleon, copied from French originals by one of the Miss Coopers who had a talent -- though not a large one -- in that direction.

Wherry-Smith any better luck with the statuary with which the Coopers had ornamented their house, and which Rhodri had found too heavy to remove.

My third bite at the apple came when Loutie reported that Carli had been spotted in Pine Hill, which is almost dead center between Meridian and Susan's farm in Coopers Bend.

Then I placed a call to the Sheriff's Department in Coopers Bend and spoke at length with local law enforcement.

I stopped at a quick mart in Panama City and called Sheriff Nixon in Coopers Bend.

The deputy slowed, and a quarter mile later representatives of the Coopers Bend Sheriff's Department appeared over a hill in a wash of swirling blue light.

When did Carli get to Coopers Bend and why was Susan in the root cellar unhurt.

She told Sheriff Nixon in Coopers Bend that, when her father heard you outside, he had just 'started on her.

Isaac set the corpse down gently on the thick grass in the coopers yard and collapsed in [28] the shade of the spreading oak which had become the gathering place for those who wanted to talk business with Schmidt.