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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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In Strange Practice, it is observed how "London's lost rivers had taken on a romantic sort of mystery in popular awareness," and the narrator describes how they flow "through cathedrals of tile and brick, unseen arches and coigns of gorgeous complexity guiding and shaping their eventual journey" (Shaw 76).

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Terror scatters us To the four coigns. Faintly our sounds Echo each other, unrelated Groans of grief at a great distance W.H.

What is the difference between existential anxiety and so called neurotic anxiety? 'The sine qua non of true vitality' an examination of the difference between existential anxiety and neurotic anxiety

Doubtless there are many coigns of vantage from which splendid views of the sky can be had, subject to limitations of some sort.

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This volume contains the following essays: Carol Chillington Rutter,"Looking Like a Child--or--Titus: The Comedy (1-26); Dympna Callaghan, "Comedy and Epyllion in Post-Reformation England" (27-38); Patricia Parker, "(Peter) Quince: Love Potions, Carpenter's Coigns and Athenian Weddings" (39-54); A.

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