12 collocations for cope

There, lying right across the threshold, lay a great length of coping stone, identicalsave in size and colorwith the piece I had dislodged in my fight with the Pit-creatures.

I have stormed behind him through a breach, and I know of none dare cope with himunless it be Sir Pertolepe the Red." BELTANE.

Accordin' to the Marine Cable, I understand you've given old BONEY a slosh on der cope mit der Sweitzer case; or in good plain United States talk, LEWIS NAPOLEON has taken his Umpire, and shoved it up the spout, without the benefit of Judge or Jewry.

A flight of stone steps led up from this area to the railed coping twenty feet aloft, where the sky shone pure and fresh.

Wounded as he was, he had been unable to cope single-handed with them, and was rapidly being borne toward the carriage.

He saw the mountain-peak jut black and bare above the snows of winter; he saw those snows slip down in sheets, rush down in torrents under the sun, from the steep slabs of rock which coped the hillside; and he copied, in his roofs, the rocks above his town.

The dura ilia of the present Duke of Devonshire could always cope with a slice of the office-joint, a hunch of the office-bread, a glass of the office-sherry.

Doubtless accustomed to a sedentary existence, to a humble life spent underneath its poor shell, it had been unable to support the dazzling luxury imposed on it, the rutilant cope with which it had been covered, the jewels with which its back had been paved, like a pyx.

compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie^, emulate, rival; run a race; contend for &c, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.

This bitter blast Warping the leafless willows, yon white snow-storms, Whose wings, like vengeful angels, cope the vault, They are God's,We'll trust to them.

The following extract from the Women's Trade Union League Quarterly Review, July 1913, may be of interest in this connection: "That the Women Inspectors' staff in particular is far below the numerical strength which would enable it to cope adequatelywe do not say completelywith the task presented to it, has long been patent to every one who knows anything of the industrial world and the part taken in it by the woman worker.

" Othello, Act 1, Sc. 1. Punchinello to Gov. Seymour: "HORATIO, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.

12 collocations for  cope