copestone

1 His “System of Christian Doctrine” formed the copestone of an almost fifty years' academical career.

2 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.

3 The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster.

4 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.

5 It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone.

6 S. W.—"Is not this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone, Most Excellent?"

7 The yard erupted as the copestone of the turret at the corner exploded, raining chips of hard limestone around them.

8 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.

9 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.

10 Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!

11 M. E. M.—"Brother Senior Warden, assemble the brethren, and form a procession, for the purpose of celebrating the copestone."

12 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.

13 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. 

14 Under this copestone there was a vacant space, varying in size from a foot or two to the height of a man on horseback.

15 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.

16 The copestone is finished—our labor is o'er, The sound of the gavel shall hail us no more.

17 Abruptly he swung his feet down from the copestone to the floor of the veranda.

18 "Ay—I could not have lighted more happily!—this places the copestone."

19 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.

20 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.

1 顶点

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2 尾活

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3 墙帽

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