Lexicographical Neighbors of Copestones
Literary usage of Copestones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Landed Estate: Containing Directions for the Management and by Robert E. Brown (1869)
"The copestones should bang over the first somewhat as shown at/. The part shown
at e, immediately behind the wall, should be filled in with small stones to ..."
2. Scottish Law Magazine, and Sheriff Court Reporter by Scotland Sheriff Courts (1862)
"... for anything connected with the building of said stalk except the brickwork,
and had not himself entered into any contract for laying the copestones, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.. by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"I expect to get some decorations from the old Tolbooth of Edinburgh, particularly
the copestones of the door-way, or lintels, as we call them. ..."
4. The American Scholar: An Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1901)
"Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for
the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. ..."
5. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we I get tiles and copestones for
the masonry of to-day. With these influences affecting him the scholar must ..."
6. American Ideals by Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson (1917)
"Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for
the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. ..."
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