Tabby, or concrete, is composed of two parts lime and coquina six parts, thoroughly mixed, and then placed in position between two planks, held together by iron bolts until dry.
Their new coquina convent is pleasant, and the display of fine laces, made by their busy fingers, incomparable.
The Presbyterian church is a good, old-fashioned, well-preserved specimen ofcoquina walls.
At this time the sum of eight thousand dollars was raised, and a wall of coquina built, a portion of which can yet be seen.
It was built of coquina and concrete, with a tile floor, much of the material used being brought from Cuba, and of the most durable quality.
The old coquina light-house was designed to subserve the double purpose of a fortress and a beacon, having strong walls and loop-holes, with a cannon on its summit, to be fired as a signal on the approach of a vessel.
The walls are built of coquina of no modern thickness, but as if designed to resist a siege.
He looked as though his name ought to be Slunk; he was digging coquina clams, and he dug with a pecking motion like a water-turkey mastering a mullet too big for it.
And it was the breakwater, swarming with negro workmen, who were swinging great blocks of coquinainto cemented beds, singing and whistling at their labor.
He must have been left by the tide, and was half stranded between two bunches of coquina rock.
He tripped over a root," said the man, earnestly, "and struck his head on a lump of coquina rock.
Suddenly he realized that the door of the squatty little coquina rock building had been closed, for no longer did the light spread a banner out into the black night.
After coaxing his charge out of the narrow slip, and once on the open lake, he taxied down to the cove close to the coquina rock shack.
Houses in St. Augustine are built of coquina rock, which is simply a mass of broken shells held together by a lime cement.
In St. Augustine many of the houses are built of coquina rock, a mass of broken shells which have become cemented together by lime mud, derived from their own decay.
Under the tower stood a coquina house for the keeper, and the whole was fortified, having a defensive wall, with angles and loop-holes.
It was an old coquinahouse which rose directly from a little-travelled roadway.
For sale--a good coquina house on the bay," had been a standing advertisement in the St. Augustine Press year after year.
The old streets are paved with coquina and the old houses are built of it, this curious shell-limestone, quarried on Anastasia Island, hardening upon exposure to the air.
Twenty miles below, at Rockledge, it narrows to about a mile in width, washing against the perpendicular sides of a continuous enclosing ledge of coquina rock, with pleasant overhanging trees.
This sea-wall of coquinais capped with granite, and was built after the American occupation of the city.
He made it his home for a time, but it afterwards passed away from his family, and being neglected, the old coquina stone mansion was burnt.
Nearer and nearer came the lithe white figure under its glorious crown of hair, moving warily and gracefully amid the great coquina slabs--nearer, nearer, until I no longer required my glasses.
Otherwise, he argued, these Coquina hills would long ago have been discovered.
I was waitress at the hotel; it happened to be my afternoon off; so I went down to the coquina dock to study.
Barnum he would have went a million miles to see what I seen last Janooary down in the Coquina country--" "Where is that?
Doubling to and fro among forests and swamps, he insisted, was the only possible path of access to the undiscovered Coquina hills of Florida.
Say, that was some steeple-chase until a few more cave-ladies come out on them rocks above us an' hove chunks of coquina at me.
He even admitted that there was reason for my doubts, but he confided to me that to find these Coquina hills, was like traversing a maze.
Moderately common under bark of dead pine stumps and logs; at Key West it fairly swarmed under coquina boulders in the woods (Rehn and Hebard, 1905).
Eurycotis floridana fairly swarmed under the coquina boulders in the woods, in groups of a dozen containing both young and adults; Pycnoscelus surinamensis was very abundant in the same type of habitat.
Under stones and rubbish; very abundant undercoquina boulders in woods at Key West (Rehn and Hebard, 1905).
Then the ponderous arches were finished and hurriedly leveled off with a packed fill of coquina chippings, sand, and shell.
By the time the mosquitoes were sluggish in the cooler fall weather, the coquina pits on Anastasia Island were open, and two big limekilns were being built just north of the old fort.
And on the opposite shore of the bay, next to the old fort, the pile of unhewn stone daily grew larger, while the stonecutters plied their squares and chopped unceasingly to shape the soft coquina for the masons.
The beating of my heart sounded like the muffled tread of that invisible steed ahead on the coquina road.
There was a fountain with a coquina basin in the grove; and here they washed the orange juice from their hands and dried them on their handkerchiefs.
The coquina quarry was as hot as the infernal pit.
The girl had turned her back to the lagoon and stood leaning against the coquina wall, facing him, her slender hands resting on the coping.
Presently he walked to the edge of the coquina quarry and looked down into it.
This statement over my signature is your guarantee that I shall never interfere with your title to the coquina quarry on Ibis Island.
As he sat there biting a stem of sweet-bay and listening to the cardinals piping from the forest, he looked down into the heated coquina pit.
She was very lovely; and that was all very well in its way, but Gray had come down there on stern business, and how long his business might last, and how long he was to inhabit a palmetto bungalow above the coquina quarry he did not know.
Either in the rough, or merely as lumps of conglomerate for crushing, the coquina in sight alone was very, very valuable.
Mine is situated at the west end of a coquina quarry.
Lady Alene rose; her boatman aided her, and she sprang lightly to the coquina dock and walked straight over the low dune in front of her.
They stood trembling and staring at the low, squat, windowless coquina house, reeking with the silt of centuries, crawling with stranded water creatures.
Spectral groups passed in clinging lingerie; here and there a ghost lingered to lean over the coquina wall, her lost gaze faintly accented by some level star.
Perhaps because the girl by the coquina wall was young, slim, golden haired, and Greek.
Inwardly excited, outwardly calm, he had seated himself on the coquina wall which ran along the lagoon under the Royal Palms.
Mine," she answered unsteadily but defiantly, "is situated on the eastern edge of a coquina quarry.
Because the coquinaquarry happens to belong to me.
On Anastasia Island, opposite St. Augustine, there are great quarries from which the coquina stone is taken, and of this material nearly the whole town is built.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coquina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
