coping stone

John, the second of these two pests, put the coping-stone on the villany of his family, and lost his French dominion in the lump.

Phillis waited for that Coping-stone for which Joseph Jagenal was vainly searching.

So that poor Phillis is sitting down to dinner with her education unfinished—where is that Coping-stone?

To put a coping-stone to our misery, there was such a mist that we could not see a hundred yards in front of us.