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keystone [′kē‚stōn] (architecture) Wedge-shaped stone at the crown of an arch. (materials) Small crushed stone used as filler for the large aggregate in bituminous bound roads. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| No one could suspect that those two hands had been engaged with others in drawing out from the social edifice the keystone of royalty. To him, Judge Scott was the keystone in the arch of injustice, and upon Judge Scott he emptied the vials of his wrath and hurled the threats of his revenge yet to come. Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra. |
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