corner (n.)

corner (v.)

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Old Testament: Psalm cxviii. 22.

O curse of marriage,

That we can call these delicate creatures ours,

And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,

And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,

Than keep a corner in the thing I love

For others' uses.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

For I say this is death and the sole death,—

When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,

Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,

And lack of love from love made manifest.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): A Death in the Desert.

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Table Talk.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxi. 9.

Sits the wind in that corner?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

For this thing was not done in a corner.

New Testament: Acts xxvi. 26.

Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation!

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.