To bring forth the copestone with shouting and praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference

S.W. -- "Is not this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone, Most Excellent?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference

Under this copestone there was a vacant space, varying in size from a foot or two to the height of a man on horseback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

M.E. M. -- "Brother Senior Warden, assemble the brethren, and form a procession, for the purpose of celebrating the copestone.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

The tipsy man's soliloquy puts the copestone on his degradation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

Abruptly he swung his feet down from the copestone to the floor of the veranda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference

“Ay — I could not have lighted more happily! — this places the copestone.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

It put the copestone on his mission, by showing men that the sufferings of the just are the saving force in human history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

When he had put this copestone upon Meg's good cheer, he felt, as he said, 'mightily elevated, and afraid of no evil which could befall unto him.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference

About the facts there can now be no dispute: and this last wretched story supplies a copestone to a pile of similar tales which has been in course of building during the past three or four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference

The captain's departure, just when she hoped to put the copestone on her little edifice was a severe blow, for it compelled her to shut up her hopes and fears in her own breast, and, being of a sympathetic nature, that was difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Trawler] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference

It is November 6, 1891, a year to the day since ground breaking ceremonies were held at this same site, and during the next hour that solitary brick -- the copestone -- will be lifted by crane to the building's roof, ceremonially signaling the "practical completion" of the Masonic Temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Earthquakes have heaved it, but its copestone has not fallen; rain floods have deluged it, but failed to sweep it from its station; the burning sun has flashed upon it, but neither split nor crumbled it; and time, stern old time, has rubbed it with his iron tooth, and with what effect let those who view it declare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

Such was Butler's situation, scarce able to drag himself to the place where his daily drudgery must gain his daily bread, and racked with a thousand fearful anticipations concerning the fate of those who were dearest to him in the world, when the trial and condemnation of Effie Deans put the copestone upon his mental misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

Brother Secretary, is this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference

Is warbling on the copestone of that old barn gable; and though Millar-Ground Bay is half a mile off, how distinct the clank of the two oars like one, accompanying that large wood-boat on its slow voyage from Ambleside to Bowness, the metropolitan port of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference

The copestone is finished -- our labor is o'er.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference

The copestone of.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference

Cape-stanc, copestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference

This places the copestone. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference

This places the copestone. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference