You may at first stop it so, that the strong working may throw out the stopple, and yet keep it close, till it work strongly.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
Pinney handed him the neat leather-covered flask his wife had reproached him for buying when they came away from home; she said he could not afford it; but he was glad he had got it, now, and he unscrewed the stopple with pride in handing it to Northwick.
"The Quality of Mercy"
W. D. Howells
I can make a watertight stopple for a bottle with a long strip of paper, but you got to know how to wind it," he added, with clumsy disregard of his companion's mood.
"Tom Slade with the Boys Over There"
Percy K. Fitzhugh