Today, however, he wasn't lifting anyone's coppers.
He ended up too sick to steal coppers.
The revolutionaries went about among the excited people with baskets, begging coppers for their destitute and miserable governor.
The process of soap-boiling is carried out in large iron boilers called " soap pans " or " coppers," some of which have capacity for a charge of 30 tons or more.
At Reims she and her elder sister, Sophia, afterwards known as Sarah, joined a troupe of Italian children who made their living by singing in the cafes, Sarah singing and Elizabeth, then only four years of age, collecting the coppers.