How To Use Quoin In A Sentence
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It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
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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)
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It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
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For example, the edges and corners of stone-veneer walls need specialty pieces - such as trim stones and L-shaped corner pieces called quoins.
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FX: picks up quoin and wanders off to buy a cup of coffee.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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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.
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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.
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Stone quoins emphasise the corners and the central triangular pediment is set against a hipped roof with dormers.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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A quoin is a solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both sides.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Granite quoins, steps, archways and many other building materials including ancient oak beams from the original priory, were used in the construction of the manor in 1810.
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The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond).
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil
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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.
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A deep, fenestrated entryway in the neoclassical style was added at some point in the eighteenth century, and its corners are quoined like the comers of the house (and were presumably added at the same time).
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Construction is of rendered rubble walls, with brick features around window and door openings, brick quoins and a pitched slated roof.
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The two inner sides of each pair of skill facets form the half of a diamond or lozenge-shaped facet, called a "quoin," of which there are four.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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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.
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Cap the whole with the mighty double quoin of gypseous Jebel el-Kharaj, buttressing the eastern flank of its valley, and with the low, dark metal-revetted hills of the Kalb el-Nakhlah, a copy of the Fahísát.
The Land of Midian
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Wonderful period detailing, including gothic windows, sandstone quoins and pillars, with access to the clock in the bell tower via a hatch.
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A deep, fenestrated entryway in the neoclassical style was added at some point in the eighteenth century, and its corners are quoined like the comers of the house (and were presumably added at the same time).
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Brick allows you to personalize the look of your home with elegant detailing, such as arches and quoins, different bond patterns and special shapes.
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Copper-top bays, corner quoins, paned windows, shutters and arches with decorative keystones above windows and doors are all features common in French-style homes.
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If we examine crystals carefully we find, not only that nature has here provided geometric forms of marvelous beauty and exactness, with faces of polish and quoins of acuteness equal to the work of the most skillful lapidist, "but that in whatever manner or under whatever circumstances a crystal may have been formed, whether in the laboratory of the chemist or the workshop of nature, in the bodies of animals or the tissues of plants, up in the sky or in the depths of the earth, whether so rapidly that we may literally see its growth, or by the slow aggregation of its molecules during perhaps thousands of years, we always find that the arrangement of the faces is subject to fixed and definite laws.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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The quoins at the corners do not continue on the first floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granite quoins, steps, archways and many other building materials including ancient oak beams from the original priory, were used in the construction of the manor in 1810.
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Construction is of rendered rubble walls, with brick features around window and door openings, brick quoins and a pitched slated roof.
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We had to remove all the stone quoins and put them back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The house has a dark look, being built of the native whinstone, or grau-wacke, as the Germans call it, relieved by the quoins and projections of the windows and turrets in freestone.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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The gun is run in and laid square under the housing-bolt, the bed and quoin removed, the muzzle elevated and secured as in the housing position; then, after un-keying and throwing back the cap-squares, the breech is bowsed up clear of the carriage by means of the train-tackle, hooked in the eye of a runner, the block of which hooks in an eye-bolt in the beam over the gun.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
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The figure 8 represents what is called a quoin, and keeps the bolster in its place.
My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field
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Formerly a school, built when Victoria was monarch, it has walls of beige bricks with each corner decorated with stone quoins and topped with crenellations adorned by an abundance of stone finials.
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The house was in the style that is now called Queen Anne, of red brick quoined with stone, with large-framed heavy sash windows and double doors to each of the principal rooms, some of which were tapestried with Gobelin arras representing the four elements -- Juno, with all the elements of the air; Ceres presiding over the harvest, for the earth; Vulcan with the emblems of fire; and Amphitrite drawn by Tritons personifying water.
John Keble's Parishes
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Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
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He turned the corner onto Eaton Square and, hurrying through the evil weather, came to the five-story white town house with its formal quoined facade.
Floating City
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Monart House is an 18th century sandstone house with limestone quoins and dressings, extending to three storeys over basement.
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The emphases are laser ablation principle and status quoin fabrication of nano - particle, nano - fibre, nano - thin film.
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At the middle of the forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal wall of a thick tendinous substance.
Moby Dick; or the Whale