Lexicographical Neighbors of Copingstone
Literary usage of Copingstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Uncle Sol and Mr. Toots, in Dombey If Son, wait patiently in the churchyard,
sitting on the copingstone of the radines, until Captain Cuttle and Susan come ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"... all directed to one object,—active service; and this, the crown and copingstone
of the whole thing, in a large proportion of cases is never attained. ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1889)
"... prophesied restoration of the people, and they were evidently intended hy
Ezekiel to be the crown and copingstone of his work. They were written BC 572, ..."
4. Prince Bismarck: An Historical Biography by Charles Lowe (1885)
"The French garrison was withdrawn from the Tiber, the italian troops battered
their way into long-coveted Rome, placed the copingstone ..."
5. The Valley of Kashmír by Walter Roper Lawrence (1895)
"... feet thick and 8 feet high to the top of the copingstone,- has in some places
fallen to the ground. The main entrance is on the west side, ..."
6. Lord Curzon in India: Being a Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon, Thomas Raleigh (1906)
"Both are equally necessary; but in the structure of Indian society one is the
foundation, and the other the copingstone; and we who are responsible must be ..."
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