coigne


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expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

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the keystone of an arch

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Poetry, great poetry--which is to say the poetry of the early, not the later and more refined, ages--is anti-democratic: The cause of the people is indeed but little calculated as a subject for poetry: it admits of rhetoric, which goes into argument and explanation, but presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind, "no jutting frieze, buttress, or coigne of advantage" for poetry "to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle in." The language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power.
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- Gary Smith, 46, of Coigne Terrace, Barry, was fined pounds 60 and banned from driving for six months after pleading guilty to exceeding a 30mph speed limit on Pantmawr Road.
Sharon Jane Humphry, 49, of Coigne Terrace, Barry, has been fined pounds 100 and ordered to pay a pounds 15 victims surcharge after admitting to speeding in a 30mph zone.