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How To Use quoin In A Sentence

• It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
• Or are we leaving it up to the kids to learn on their own while we maintain the status-quoin our classrooms? Lee Kolbert: Should Kids Be Driving Alone? (VIDEO)
• It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
• For example, the edges and corners of stone-veneer walls need specialty pieces - such as trim stones and L-shaped corner pieces called quoins.
• FX: picks up quoin and wanders off to buy a cup of coffee. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
• In such cases bands, columns, lintels, sills, jambs, quoins, water tables, medallions, capstones, and copings were wrought of the stone quite often repeating the coloration of the stone used in the steps or foundation.
• The stripwork and the quoins are all rebated and stand proud of the stone infill to allow external plaster work to fill in between the strips.
• Stone quoins emphasise the corners and the central triangular pediment is set against a hipped roof with dormers. Times, Sunday Times
• Probably of about 1020, this rises in four stages, with long-and-short quoins at the corners and stone pilaster strips dividing it vertically; similar stone strips provide round-arched and lozenge-shaped decoration.
• A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In