What do you know about beer and beer-openers?
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler
He asked three or four pew-openers, both below and above stairs, if they knew which was Mr. Gammon's pew-Mr. Gammon of Thavies' Inn; not dreaming of presumptuously going to the pew, but of sitting in some place which commanded a view of it.
"Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1."
Samuel Warren
As soon as the baggage train had passed, the commander of the band of prisoners wished to set off, but the "openers of the way," who preceded the archers, forbade him, because it was not seemly for convicts to mingle with soldiers.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers