coping stone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The man had been outside the 14-story residence at 311 East 50th Street when he was struck by a coping stone that had been removed to anchor the suspended scaffold, a Fire Department official said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
He desired too, no doubt, to put a coping stone to his fame.
From George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 by Seccombe, Thomas
To make a man reasonable is the coping stone of a good education, and yet you profess to train a child through his reason!
From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Then, I went down on to the roof, and crossed over to the gap from which the coping stone had fallen.
From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope
Benevolence was, indeed, the master virtue, the crown, the coping stone, of all virtues.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
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