coping-stone

Menelaus, who vauntest thyself so high; else will I tear off the ancient parapet, the work of masons, and shatter thy skull with this coping-stone.

Orestes 2008

Menelaus, who vauntest thyself so high; else will I tear off the ancient parapet, the work of masons, and shatter thy skull with this coping-stone.

Orestes 2008

It was evident that the creatures had not returned since the fall of the coping-stone; but who was to say how long they would keep away?

The House on the Borderland 2007

And so it came about, that, although he examined the course of the blood in many of the lower animals — watched the pulsation of the heart in shrimps, and animals of that kind — he never could put the final coping-stone on his edifice.

Essays 2007

From there, I went on to where the great coping-stone had fallen.

The House on the Borderland 2007

Then you must train them in dialectic, which will teach them to ask and answer questions, and is the coping-stone of the sciences.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Dialectic, then, as you will agree, is the coping-stone of the sciences, and is set over them; no other science can be placed higher — the nature of knowledge can no further go?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

His seat in Parliament was safe; his position in society was excellent and secure; he was exactly so placed that marriage with a fortune was the only thing wanting to put the finishing coping-stone to his edifice that, and perhaps also the useful glory of having some Lady Mary or Lady

The Belton Estate 2004

He paddled along swiftly till he came to a culvert, and dropped behind it, his chin on a level with the coping-stone.

Kim 2003

British and loyal; and after presuming a dozen times or more to disclose and defend his hatred, he put the coping-stone to his audacity, by suddenly leaving his uncle's house, two years after he had been received into it, and galloping away, a cornet in one of the companies of the first regiment of horse which Virginia sent to the armies of Congress.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird