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As sign before a playhouse serves   A giant Lyre, ornately gilded, On whose convenient coignes and curves   The pert brown sparrows late have builded.

From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Cone, Helen Gray

And the figures and ornaments of his style, wild, fantastic, and oft-times startling, like those in Gothic cathedrals, are not merely what they seem, but massive coignes and buttresses, which support the fabric.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth