Crossword-Solution: COOPERED 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

There he stands upon the great outward sweep of the terrace before the huge main entrance, a little figure, ridiculously disproportionate to that forty-foot arch, with the granite ball behind him—the astronomical ball, brass coopered, that represented the world, with a little adjustable tube of lenses on a gun-metal arm that focussed the sun upon just that point of the earth on which it chanced to be shining vertically.

Dinna luik sae scaret like, sir; we may be in time yet er’ the warst come to the warst, though it’s some ill to say what may be the warst in sic an ill coopered kin’ o’ affair! There’s thae twa fules o’ bairns--trowth, they’re nae better; an’ the tane ’s jist as muckle to blame as the tither--only the lass is waur to blame nor the lad, bein’ made sharper, an’ kennin’ better nor him what comes o’ sic!--Eh, but she is a gowk!” Here Mrs.

The captain coopered the head, which was missing, and made holes for me to get the air; but the perspiration ran off my face in a stream.

The head—divided in the middle, across the diameter of the orifice—was now fitted round the culprit’s neck; and he was forthwith coopered up into the tub, which rested on his shoulders, while his legs protruded through the holes in the bottom.

They decided that it would be best for their plans if I was out of the way for a little while, so that I couldn't screw them up, so they coopered this up, told the London police that I'd gone nuts.