There was a heavy thud just in front of us, and when the dust had cleared away I saw it was a coping from the Cathedral, 2 feet by 4!
Had we been further out the coping would assuredly have landed on us or else we should have been hit by the shrapnel contained in the bombs, for the wall opposite was pitted with it.
Chinks," and other miscellaneous persons were coping in a leisurely fashion.
The weather was fine and mild, but beyond cleaning up and repairing the damage of war very little training was attempted, except some useful demonstrations of the best method of coping with hostile machine guns.
Much amused, yet fearful that the stone coping might come down on her, he pulled her back with the assurance that he would listen and help her now immediately, if there was such need of haste.
In their dilemma the Government saw a chance of extrication in the person of Gordon, the one man recognised by the public and the press as capable of coping with a difficulty which seemed too much for them.
The parapet of the tower is very high; we can just see over it when standing on a narrow ledge near the top-coping of the leaded roof.
Ball, the contractor, who presented Dickens with one of the balustrades, others having been utilized to form the coping of the embankment of the esplanade under the castle walls.
The wave retreated for a little space, and the white line of the coping showed bare and unbroken in the moonlight.
They all saw the Mexican when he slipped out of the rain-coat, eluded Blacklock, and broke away, to dart across the chasm on the white pathway of the dam's coping course.
Yet it stood, apparently undamaged, even after the splintered mass of wreckage, tossed high on the crest of the wave, had leaped the coping course to plunge thundering into the ravine below.
When the water should reach the coping course, some three or four acres of the house-bearing knoll would form an island in the middle of the reservoir lake.
Few of them had ever seen their dioceses save on some great festival; none possessed the literary or theological training necessary to qualify them for coping with the master-minds among the Protestants.
And this, too, after Parliament had placed in the hands of the local authorities large powers specially designed for coping with an evil which was eating into the very vitals of the community.
It seems to me that such a mode ofcoping with distress does not so much meet the difficulty as evade it.
Lorenzo will have to raise a force capable of coping with the Swiss, the Spanish, and the French.
Italy, incapable of coping with these great powers, will become the mere arena of their contests, the object of their spoliations.
As they looked, they saw, with a tremor of surprise, the dim figure of a man rise from the coping and dissolve into the surrounding shadows.
He turned his back and kicked the coping of the fountain viciously.
Before any of them had recovered sufficiently to follow the apparition, a second ghost rose from the coping and stood wavering in apparent hesitancy whether to recede or advance.
She dropped down on the coping of the fountain, and with her chin in her hands gazed dreamily at the moss-bearded merman who, two centuries before, had spouted water from his twisted conch-shell.
The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Copingin Health and Illness, 35 Yeager, V.
The primacy of caring: Stress andcoping in health and illness, 35 Bingham, V.
The primacy of caring: Stress and coping in health in illness.
His own short experience of life gave Finn nothing to draw upon in coping with the situation in which he now found himself.
A little north of west rises profiled the great Shárr, no longer a ridge with a coping of four horns, but a tall and portly block, from whose summit spring heads and peaks of airy blue-pink.
It was a lofty wall, at least nine feet in height, with a coping which bristled with jagged pieces of glass.
Tom caught the copingof the wall, although the broken glass cut deeply into his hands.
Still they remained there, smiling at each other, the child beneath with upturned face, and the lad half reclining on the coping of the wall.
For all the world she would not have liked them to catch him astride the coping of the wall.
She raised her head, thinking he was on the coping of the wall.
The openings for the pictures were cut out withcoping saw and knife and bevelled.
Using the coping saw] One of the new tools was brought out, and Harry was introduced to the mysteries of the coping saw.
They should be drawn on the surface, sawed out with the coping saw, and sand-papered smooth.
Its handle was cut out with the coping saw and whittled to the lines.
Having succeeded in getting a satisfactory opening, the outline is sawed close to the lines with a coping saw and finished with sand-paper.
A metal-cutting saw blade obtained from the hardware store can be fitted into the frame of the coping saw.
We can cut it out with the coping saw and there need not be a great deal of knife work to it.
This will give us a chance to use our coping saw, and I have been wanting to do that for a long time.
This is fastened in the frame again and made to follow a curved line like a fret or coping saw.
The boat was sketched free hand and cut out with the coping saw in one piece by sawing exactly on the lines.
The toy sled] In each case the drawing was made directly on the wood, which was sawed close to the lines with the coping saw, and finished to the lines with the knife.
It is not essential, but may be cut at any convenient stage of the construction with the coping saw, and sand-papered.
Mother Sub-Prioress turned her back upon the coping and stared at the archway opposite.
Very slowly she ventured to turn her head, until the stone coping at her elbow came into her range of vision.
The cheval de frise had given way under the strain upon it, and the rope had dropped on to the coping of the wall itself.
The centering of the main arches was not struck until the spandrel arches and all the work above the main arches to the bottom of the copinghad been completed.
To form the expansion joints in the coping course there were inserted across the mold at proper intervals a short iron plate ¼ in.
Figure 293, shows the face form for the arch ring, spandrel wall and cornice orcoping course of the Big Muddy River Bridge on the Illinois Central R.
The coping course was then built up around the bracket blocks to the level of the bottom of the railing base.
The mold or form for the coping course was designed to build the coping in successive sections, and was built up around the bracket blocks, and supported from the centers as shown by the drawings.
To make a man reasonable is the copingstone of a good education, and yet you profess to train a child through his reason!
Come to your friend's help, and put the coping stone to all you have done for him; do not let him fall a victim to your care!
A moulded string-course, with gargoyles, runs below the parapet, which is a continuation of the plaincoping on the western bays.
These buttresses have a projection of 8 feet, rise to the top of the aisles, and are surmounted by gables with finials, and at the north corner the gables and the coping of the aisle are crocketed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
