Each arch was down at the centre, and displayed a fault not unusual where bad brickwork joins up to good cut stonework, the quoins showing a tendency to separate from the brick rings.
Corners are usually of cob, though stone quoins are occasionally met with.
In order to overcome this it was arranged that irregular brick quoins should be embedded in the angles all the way up as the work proceeded.
Note: In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension.
In brickwork, quoins consist of groups or masses of brick laid together, and in a certain imitation of quoins of stone.
The quoins remaining at each angle of the present nave show that it is of the same length and width as the nave of the original church, and they seem to show also that the original church had neither aisles nor transepts.
The rough edges of the quoins are worked with a rebate to receive the plaster which originally covered the tower.
The whole tower is built with bold stone quoins and horizontal bands of brickwork, each band two courses in height, at intervals of about three feet.
Frequently the quoins and jambs are executed in ashlar, which gives a neat and finished appearance and adds strength to the work.
In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension.
On the motte is a shell of polygonal form, of rubble masonry, but having quoins of well-dressed ashlar.
It is well known that blocks of huge size are employed in Anglo-Saxon architecture, but generally only as quoins or first courses.
The workmanship of this tower, which is also of flints laid herring-bone-wise, with quoins of ashlar, so strongly resembles that of the neighbouring church that it seems obvious that both were built at about the same time.
At Le Mans, to the north of the cathedral, is a fragment of an ancient tower, built of the rudest rubble, with small quoins of ashlar; this may be the keep built by William I.
Among the best examples are the Palazzo Cataldi, formerly Palazzo Carega (1560), in which there are no pilasters, but rusticated quoins at the angles and windows with moulded dressings and pediments.
Both in Belgium and Holland there are numerous examples of domestic architecture in brick with quoins and tracery in stone, in both cases alternating with brick courses and arch voussoirs and with infinite variety of design.
They are usually built of rubble, the stones being very irregular in size, with quoins at the angles, which are formed of long stones set perpendicularly, and shorter ones laid horizontally alternately with them.
This is just the description of a forme in folio where two quoins on one side are always opposite to two quoins on the other, thus together joining and tightening all the separate stamps.
Here, the idea of joining together by quoins so that nothing shall fall out, is just the same as in the couplet quoted from Shakspere.
The Hempel style of metalquoins are well adapted for this purpose.
After three or four rounds the train-tackle should be re-secured; the chocking-quoins will require re-placing after each fire.
The gun is then run close up against the housing-chocks, and the chocking-quoins are placed square up behind the rear trucks.
When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
The Captain hauls taut the train-tackle and chokes the luff, and the Loader and Sponger place the chocking-quoins forward of the front trucks, and proceed to sponge and load the gun in the usual manner.
Two chocking-quoins for |When not in use, between the truck-carriages | brackets and the bed.
When the guns are to be secured without being housed the Loader and Sponger place the chocking-quoins square up against the rear part of the front trucks and put in the tompion.
Side-tackles, while 3, 4 place Truck-quoins in rear of trucks, if the movement of the ship requires it.
Truck-quoins and keep the Breeching clear of Front-trucks.
The quoins or angles are first built up with the aid of the gauge-rod, and the intermediate work is kept regular by means of the line and line pins fixed in the joints.
Above the piece of wall which occurs between the older and newer work, the quoins of the aisleless church remain entire.
It is not unusual, as already stated, to find Saxon quoins still existing at the angles of naves to which aisles have subsequently been added.
Above the latter tower two sister-quoins of ruddy material, the Shigdawayn, to which a tale hangs.
An important advantage of single gates is that the sill and quoins may be in one plane, and that the troublesome and costly fitting of the hollow quoins is avoided.
The heel-posts are of cast iron, planed and ground in place against the polished surface of the granite hollowquoins so as to form a water-tight joint.
The bricks were large, measuring from one to two feet square where used for quoins or arches, but triangular where they served only as facings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quoins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
