Then turning to the priests and scribes he said, Did not your prophets say, 15 The stone the builders cast away became the capstone of the arch?
To him, the touch of her hand as he pressed it in his was the capstone of the whole adventure.
He had done much for his county, and the railroad was his last and greatest achievement, the capstone of the Travers' effort, the momentous and marvellous thing that had been brought about just yesterday.
The capstone measures five feet ten inches, by four feet nine inches, and still rests against two of its supporters.
The capstone of this cromlech measured five by four feet, and its four supporters were each about three feet high.
Along the centre of the large capstone a series of shallow perforations have been made at nearly regular intervals, and possibly indicate a design of splitting it in two.
One of these, which has been supposed to have formed the capstone of a large cromlech, measures 15½ by 10 feet; but it is very doubtful if it owes either its form or position to human hands.
Much greater mechanical skill, moreover, was required to raise the superincumbent masses and fit them into their exact position, than to rear the rude standing stone, or upheave the capstone of the cromlech on to the upright trilith.
Sitting, walled in; over the head, but under the capstone of the vault, a handful of flint arrow-heads.
On the top of the head of the skeleton and immediately under the capstone of the vault were found several plates of silver mica, which had evidently been cut with some rude implement.
What I remember chiefly in connection with that pleasant time, was idling rambles over the rocks and the Capstone Hill, in company with Mrs. Coker and her sister Miss Aubrey, the daughters of that Major A.
There was no huge "Ilfracombe Hotel," and the Capstone Hill was not strewed with whitey-brown biscuit bags and the fragments of bottles, nor continually vocal with nigger minstrels and ranting preachers.
These supporters are likewise huge flat stones, but the capstone is always the largest, and its weight inclining towards one point, imparts strength to the whole structure.
The capstone of this Kahal organization were the so-called Waads,[68] the conferences or assemblies of rabbis and Kahal leaders.
The capstone rests on four pillars of the twelfth century.
The cross on the capstone was cut when the prehistoric monument was converted to use by Christians.
Only in the dark shelter of the projecting capstone were they hidden from the upturned faces now massed solidly about.
But Chet was amazed at the size of the monolith when he stood at last on the broad step over which this capstoneprojected like a roof.
The great capstone projected beyond the blocks that supported it; that much had been apparent from the ground.
Banded like the walls, it rose to half their height to finish in a capstone cut square and true.
Chet Bullard turned abruptly where the projecting capstone hung heavy above a shadowed entrance.
The flat capstone of the pyramid was the resting place of the "Master"; his huge head showed pulpy and gray above the glittering gold of the metal carrying-chair where a misshapen body was seated.
Statue surmounting the Capstone of the Temple Plate 6.
The spherical termination of the east center tower, which is the highest stone in the building, and therefore the capstone proper, supports a statue, the crown of which marks the point of greatest altitude in the entire structure.
Within the lower half a cavity had been prepared; and in this were placed certain books and other articles, so that, as the capstone was laid, it formed a secure and massive lid to this stone receptacle.
The capstone on which the statue stands is one of the record-stones of the Temple.
When the capstone of the Temple was laid, the scene inside the walls was that of chaos and confusion.
One year ago we set the capstone with shouts of Hosanna to God and the Lamb.
After the announcement from the architect from the top of the building that the capstone was ready, President Woodruff stepped before the people and said: "Attention, all the House of Israel, and all ye nations of the earth.
I have seen the woman that danced the capstone on to Bunker Hill Monument, as Orpheus moved the rocks by music, the Elssler woman,--Fanny Elssler.
They were over the capstones of the windows,--to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass.
The whole is surmounted by a capstone eighteen inches high.
How prophetic the warning words of that old monk inscribed upon the capstone of that little church overlooking the green plains of Picardy!
The slots are made of iron bars 1½ inches wide, with ends rounded and turned up, and inserted in holes drilled through capstone and keyed above.
To this end he climbed to the top of a marble column, sixty feet high, and there on the capstone he began to live a life beyond reproach.
The capstone was a little less than three feet square, so Simeon could not lie down.
With each shock the great capstone of the throne to which I clung jarred farther and farther from its bed place, and my love was coming nearer to me.
But still the huge capstone that was carved with the snake and the outstretched hand held my love fast locked in her living tomb, and I could have bit the cold granite at the impotence which barred me from her.
So I went up the steps of the throne on the side from which the great capstonewas moving, and clung there afire with expectation.
The capstone of the throne slid out till it reached the balance, and the next shock threw it with a roar and a clatter to the ground.
To this end he climbed to the top of a marble column, sixty feet high, and there on the capstone he lived a life beyond reproach.
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