| 单词 | copestone |
| 例句 | His “System of Christian Doctrine” formed the copestone of an almost fifty years' academical career. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Winston was circling the first grapple above his head, intended for the copestone along the top of the breastwork, when he heard a quiet Portuguese whisper at his ear. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 He stopped dead, flung the bandbox over a garden wall, and, leaping upward with incredible agility and seizing the copestone with his hands, he tumbled headlong after it into the garden. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone. The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics The copestone is finished—our labor is o'er, The sound of the gavel shall hail us no more. The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge The yard erupted as the copestone of the turret at the corner exploded, raining chips of hard limestone around them. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z He might have been a carven copestone of the very granite fang he sat upon, for all the appearance of life he gave, except that occasionally—say at fifteen-minute intervals—he winked a yellow-lidded wink. The Way of the Wild These are of various forms, but they are mostly tripods, consisting of a copestone poised upon three other stones, two at the head and one at the foot. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you! David Lockwin—The People's Idol S. W.—"Is not this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone, Most Excellent?" The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge He stopped dead, flung the bandbox over a garden wall, and leaping upward with incredible agility and seizing the copestone with his hands, he tumbled headlong after it into the garden. New Arabian Nights On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation. Wuthering Heights The supports are rough boulders, the largest masses of stone that could be found or moved; and the copestone is an enormous flat square block, often with cup-shaped hollows carved upon its surface. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood The copestone of our nation’s he, In him our weal, our all we see; Though calm he looks his plans when breeding, Yet oaks he’d break his clans when leading. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery M. E. M.—"Brother Senior Warden, assemble the brethren, and form a procession, for the purpose of celebrating the copestone." The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge Abruptly he swung his feet down from the copestone to the floor of the veranda. The Magnificent Ambersons "Ay—I could not have lighted more happily!—this places the copestone." The Antiquary — Volume 02 Under this copestone there was a vacant space, varying in size from a foot or two to the height of a man on horseback. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Its oppression seemed congenial to George; he sat upon the copestone of the stone parapet, his back against a stone pilaster; his attitude not comfortable, but rigid, and his silence not comfortable, either, but heavy. The Magnificent Ambersons |
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