"Coping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the pale fire still burned on the thin silk curtains and struck across the garden, gilding the coping of the wall where clustering peaches hung all turned to gold like fabled ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... street had caught sight of the two men fighting on the narrow coping, and the shout which rent the air reached the ears ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... say that you gave me the necessary instructions, but there is no hope of coping with the miners unless five thousand troops, with cannon, are on the ground. That will startle government, you may depend," the ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... the angle, stopping now and then to regain his breath, now and then slipping back an inch. But he mounted towards the top, and after a while the back of his head no longer touched the bricks. His head was above the coping of the wall. ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason
... country-side; and my grandfather's vault at Bow is capable of accommodating eight visitors, while my great-aunt Susan has a brick grave in Finchley Churchyard, with a headstone with a coffee- pot sort of thing in bas-relief upon it, and a six-inch best white stone coping all the way round, that cost pounds. When I want graves, it is to those places that I go and revel. I do not want other folk's. When you yourself are buried, I will come and see yours. That is all ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome
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