Only when the four ushers tiptoed about with the collection boxes on the end of handles, like exaggerated corn-poppers, did the lethargy into which he had fallen break for a moment.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde"
Stewart Edward White
Between three and four daily, at Costecalde the gunsmith's, a stout stern pipe-smoker might be seen in a green leather-covered arm-chair in the centre of the shop crammed with cap-poppers, they all on foot and wrangling.
"Tartarin of Tarascon"
Alphonse Daudet
Hence our dauntless cap-poppers looked at one another how proudly!
"Tartarin of Tarascon"
Alphonse Daudet