Copestone

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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. ❋ Unknown (2002)

M.E. M. -- "Brother Senior Warden, assemble the brethren, and form a procession, for the purpose of celebrating the copestone." ❋ William Morgan (N/A)

S.W. -- "Is not this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone, Most Excellent?" ❋ William Morgan (N/A)

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. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

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. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)

Under this copestone there was a vacant space, varying in size from a foot or two to the height of a man on horseback. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

To bring forth the copestone with shouting and praise. ❋ William Morgan (N/A)

In a little “hole” in the wall, beneath the salt-box, lay a bottle of holy water to keep the place purified; and against the copestone of the gable, on the outside, grew a large lump of house-leek, as a specific for sore eyes and other maladies. ❋ Unknown (1921)

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Abruptly he swung his feet down from the copestone to the floor of the veranda. ❋ Unknown (1918)

It put the copestone on his mission, by showing men that the sufferings of the just are the saving force in human history. ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)

The alternative would be a war of hitherto unknown dimensions, including not only all Europe, but Asia Minor and northern Africa; out of such a conflict might result a permanent order the foundation and copestone of which would be French supremacy. ❋ William Milligan Sloane (1889)

He raised himself from the copestone of the parapet, and solemnly tramped his steady way up to the "onstead" of Craig Ronald, which took shape before him as he advanced like a low, grey-bastioned castle. ❋ Unknown (1887)