She climbs up to a mill-hopper, clambers over the balustrade and slides down again on the banisters.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann
She was, I am afraid, in character a "hopper."
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
And if it had not been for an accident, which at the time seemed frightful to her, Ernestine Geyer would probably have turned out, as most of her kind turn out, either have become the wife of a workingman with a brood of children to feed the labor hopper or gone to her end more rapidly on the streets.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick