They helped themselves to caps and light topcoats and belts, then they bound and gagged the officers.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy"
Rutherford G. Montgomery
At the theatre he laughed uproariously, talked familiarly with the box-openers, as he did with the waiters at Philippe's, loudly demanded footstools for the ladies, and when the performance was over insisted on having the topcoats and fur wraps of his party first of all, as if he were the only three-million parvenu in the audience.
"Fromont and Risler, Complete"
Alphonse Daudet Last Updated: March 3, 2009
On winter nights champion story-tellers like Jed Morrill and Rish Bixby would drop in there and hang their woollen neck-comforters on the pegs along the wall-side, where there were already hats, topcoats, and fur mufflers, as well as stacks of whips, canes, and ox-goads standing in the corners.
"The Story Of Waitstill Baxter"
By Kate Douglas Wiggin