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  • And I will have to decipher the keystone on my own.†   (source)
  • In his summation, Sonny Seiler puts heavy emphasis on the clumsiness of the police at Mercer House, comparing them to the Keystone Kops.†   (source)
  • There was a general shout of outrage, and then we recommended the building of Leper's triumphal arch around Brinker's keystone.†   (source)
  • He liked the Pennsylvania keystone, which my father had had engraved with my initials—my favorite was the tiny bike—and he pulled it off and placed it in his pocket.†   (source)
  • Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times.†   (source)
  • It was the keystone that had held the whole cathedral up.†   (source)
  • She must have been feeling like a Keystone Kop.†   (source)
  • It always seemed exciting to me when I met somebody from exotic places like Keystone or Iaeger, mining towns on the other side of the county.†   (source)
  • The supplier, an executive at Keystone Foods, ordered a group of technicians to get to work in the lab, where they were soon joined by food scientists from Mc-Donald's.†   (source)
  • As I'm sure you are aware, Eragon is the keystone of our hopes.†   (source)
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  • The keystone of the state's case was the six-page Plan of Action confiscated in the Rivonia raid.†   (source)
  • We were the Keystone Kops of the sea.†   (source)
  • As the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics put it in an editorial, emergency obstetric care is the "keystone in the arch of safe motherhood.†   (source)
  • So we keep Alex away from our keystone, as far away from us as possible, but we give him our marker.†   (source)
  • The archway was forty feet from cobble to keystone and still dwarfed by the walls, which rose a hundred feet above even the tallest trees.†   (source)
  • She sat looking at the two thin, delicate, almost weightless drops of gold in the palm of her hand, knowing that the whole of the Taggart Transcontinental system had rested upon them, that this had been the keystone supporting all the keystones, all the arches, all the girders of the Taggart track, the Taggart Bridge, the Taggart Building…… She shook her head and slipped the coins back into his hand.†   (source)
  • There were plastic bags filled with Keystone beer cans all over the house and the tiny front yard.†   (source)
  • The keystone of the arch crashed almost on their heels, and the wall above crumbled, and fell in ruin.†   (source)
  • In my day it was the keystone to knowledge.†   (source)
  • They are all important, but they are not the keystone.†   (source)
  • This key provides access to the keystone.†   (source)
  • There was also what he held in his hands: my Pennsylvania keystone charm.†   (source)
  • "When we possess the keystone," the Teacher said, "we will be only one step away."†   (source)
  • He took the Pennsylvania keystone charm from my bracelet and held it in his hand.†   (source)
  • The keystone was in her sweater pocket earlier.†   (source)
  • A Pennsylvania keystone with her initials on it.†   (source)
  • Rémy held up the keystone like a trophy.†   (source)
  • He's written some books on the keystone and the Grail.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, I would have obtained the keystone without complication.†   (source)
  • The keystone is a map that can be followed only by the worthy.†   (source)
  • For the last decade, historians had been searching for the keystone in French churches.†   (source)
  • Teacher, all four confirmed the existence of the clef de voûte… the legendary keystone.†   (source)
  • Leigh is giving the keystone back to us?†   (source)
  • The heathens used a house of God to conceal their keystone.†   (source)
  • The keystone is somewhere inside the house.†   (source)
  • That's where the keystone comes in," Langdon explained.†   (source)
  • The keystone is an encoded stone that lies beneath the sign of the Rose.†   (source)
  • The Priory keystone has been said to lie 'beneath the Sign of the Rose.'†   (source)
  • "Silas has located the keystone," the caller said.†   (source)
  • I will not leave this house without the keystone, he vowed.†   (source)
  • The keystone was the link to the Holy Grail, and the Holy Grail was the key to protecting the faith.†   (source)
  • He encrypted the Priory keystone with my name.†   (source)
  • Teabing slipped his right hand through one of his crutches and grasped the keystone in his left.†   (source)
  • Stretching his arms and fingers, he snatched the keystone from midair.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon would never break the keystone.†   (source)
  • He had to transfer the keystone to someone.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon was in possession of the keystone, and he needed help.†   (source)
  • Then the location of the keystone would be lost forever!†   (source)
  • "So the keystone is a preuve de mérite," Sophie said.†   (source)
  • The keystone reveals the pathway to the brotherhood's ultimate treasure.†   (source)
  • "The keystone is worthless to you," he stammered.†   (source)
  • The contents of the keystone are crying out to us.†   (source)
  • One way or another, the keystone was coming to Château Villette.†   (source)
  • The important thing is that the keystone is ours.†   (source)
  • The keystone is hidden beneath the Rose Line.†   (source)
  • I could have Silas steal the keystone later, once I knew enough to carry on alone.†   (source)
  • Silas, take the keystone from Mr. Langdon.†   (source)
  • The keystone, however, bore the simplest of inscriptions.†   (source)
  • For this reason alone, I will ask Rémy to bring me the keystone.†   (source)
  • He turned his eyes down to his own lap, where the keystone was safely stowed in its wooden box.†   (source)
  • The monk's eyes fell immediately to the keystone on Teabing's lap.†   (source)
  • If you work for the Teacher, why did Langdon bring the keystone to your home?†   (source)
  • He had expected the keystone to be a map, or a complex series of directions, perhaps even encoded.†   (source)
  • The keystone is supposed to be hidden beneath the sign of the Rose.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, the keystone was a similar concept.†   (source)
  • All he could think of was the keystone, the inscription, and whether it would all lead to the Grail.†   (source)
  • If ever a box had been one of a kind, it was this one—the box custom-made for the Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • To his shock, as he pulled the ends of the keystone, the cylinder separated.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Langdon's threat to smash the keystone on the chapel floor had caused Rémy to panic.†   (source)
  • This cryptex can't be the keystone," Sophie argued.†   (source)
  • Then the woman mentioned the keystone, and everything changed.†   (source)
  • I'm about to hand over the Priory keystone!†   (source)
  • Bewildered, Teabing looked back at the keystone and saw it.†   (source)
  • But the keystone was moving away from him now.†   (source)
  • Rémy's orders had been clear—stay out of sight while Silas recovers the keystone.†   (source)
  • You removed the keystone from its hiding place?†   (source)
  • Whether it was the keystone itself, or information on where to find it, I was not sure.†   (source)
  • Rémy had asked the Teacher less than half an hour ago, upon getting orders to steal the keystone.†   (source)
  • You helped me find the keystone, explained the Sangreal, told me about the ritual in the basement.†   (source)
  • If not the possessor of the keystone, then who?†   (source)
  • We can't very well give the keystone back to the brotherhood.†   (source)
  • The question remained, of course, as to where the keystone would ultimately lead.†   (source)
  • The brotherhood hid the keystone at the Rose Line.†   (source)
  • But the keystone is supposed to point to the place where the Holy Grail is hidden now.†   (source)
  • Set down the keystone, or I pull the trigger.†   (source)
  • At the moment, they were focused on the keystone.†   (source)
  • We don't need to tell Teabing about the keystone immediately.†   (source)
  • I think the text might tell us how to open the keystone.†   (source)
  • "Your only concern," Silas said calmly, "is that I leave here with the keystone."†   (source)
  • We have done well," Rémy replied, laying the keystone in the Teacher's eager hands.†   (source)
  • As his eyes finally gazed upon the contents, he knew in an instant it could only be the keystone.†   (source)
  • "The Priory keystone is not my specialty," Langdon admitted.†   (source)
  • After six months of intensive research, the Keystone lab developed new technology for the manufacture of McNuggets — small pieces of reconstituted chicken, composed mainly of white meat, that were held together by stabilizers, breaded, fried, frozen, then reheated.†   (source)
  • He was still talking when Roy Lee guided his car past the bus and then sped up, slowing only to make his way through the little town of Keystone, the streets empty except for a mangy dog picking around the front of an abandoned store.†   (source)
  • As my father reached in, his hand shook, and it took him a second to feel the small, sharp edges of the keystone against the flesh of his fingers.†   (source)
  • A detective, working overtime, had painstakingly traced the keystone charm in the Connecticut case back to a list of lost property from my murder.†   (source)
  • My Pennsylvania keystone charm.†   (source)
  • He fingered it, the fleshy pad of his index finger finding the smooth gold metal of the Pennsylvania keystone, the back of the ballet slipper, the tiny hole of the minuscule thimble, and the spokes of the bicycle with wheels that worked.†   (source)
  • A wedding ring, a letter sealed in an envelope, the heel of a shoe, a pair of glasses, an eraser in the shape of a cartoon character, a small bottle of perfume, a plastic bracelet, my Pennsylvania keystone charm, his mother's amber pendant.†   (source)
  • The keystone was a devious dead end.†   (source)
  • Although he had been unable to hear much of the conversation, the word keystone had sifted through the glass on numerous occasions.†   (source)
  • Having spent over a decade searching for this keystone, he wanted to savor every millisecond of this moment.†   (source)
  • As the monk advanced, Langdon stepped back, raising the keystone high, looking fully prepared to hurl it at the floor.†   (source)
  • Rather than the keystone remaining locked in the depository bank forever, you extracted it and walked into my home.†   (source)
  • I talked about the supposed keystone as an example of the lengths to which the Priory would go to protect the Sangreal documents.†   (source)
  • Against the hum of the bulletproof wheels beneath them, Langdon quickly explained to Sophie everything he had heard about the keystone.†   (source)
  • She is a woman of the cloth, and it is not her fault the brotherhood chose her church as a hiding place for their keystone.†   (source)
  • It's possible someone patiently watched the Priory and then attacked, hoping the top people would reveal the location of the keystone.†   (source)
  • Langdon, cradling the keystone, turned in the passenger seat and eyed Teabing and Sophie in the back seat.†   (source)
  • How was I to imagine the Grand Master would go to such ends to deceive me and bequeath the keystone to an estranged granddaughter?†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, their only chance to recover the keystone seemed to be here and now… at the tomb of Isaac Newton.†   (source)
  • "Before we turn our attention to the keystone," Teabing said, "I was wondering if you would permit me a few words."†   (source)
  • I simply feel it is important that you begin to think about what happens should we succeed in opening the keystone.†   (source)
  • Silas should have the keystone by now.†   (source)
  • You must believe that I would much prefer to receive the keystone from you—a man of God rather than a criminal—but Rémy must be dealt with.†   (source)
  • Even if your grandfather were the Priory Grand Master and created the keystone himself, he would never tell you how to find it.†   (source)
  • Robert, if I had solved the keystone, I would have disappeared to find the Grail myself and kept you uninvolved.†   (source)
  • Not only had Silas killed the only four people who knew where the keystone was hidden, he had killed a nun inside Saint-Sulpice.†   (source)
  • Why does Opus Dei want the keystone?†   (source)
  • I will call you the moment I am in possession of the keystone and have attended to my current problem.†   (source)
  • When whisperings of the Priory keystone surfaced about fifteen years ago, he moved to France to search churches in hopes of finding it.†   (source)
  • Falling forward with the keystone victoriously clutched in his hand, Teabing knew he was falling too fast.†   (source)
  • I am so close, Rémy told himself, gazing into the sanctuary of the Temple Church and the keystone in Robert Langdon's hand.†   (source)
  • And, of course, an abundance of cinquefoils—the five-petaled decorative flowers often found at the top of archways, directly over the keystone.†   (source)
  • Earlier tonight, when Silas told the Teacher that the Priory keystone was hidden inside Saint-Sulpice, the Teacher had sounded doubtful.†   (source)
  • The only challenge would be to persuade Langdon to set down the keystone so Teabing could safely end this charade.†   (source)
  • Why would Saunière take such an enormous risk giving his granddaughter the keystone, especially when the two of them didn't get along?†   (source)
  • Pocketing the flask and the keystone, the Teacher reached for the glove box and pulled out the tiny Medusa revolver.†   (source)
  • For the moment, at least, it seemed the keystone was in Sophie and Langdon's hands, whether they wanted it or not.†   (source)
  • But this obviously is not a keystone.†   (source)
  • Slipping the keystone in the pocket of his robe, Silas backed off, still holding Langdon and Sophie at gunpoint.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei is searching for the keystone.†   (source)
  • Even to him it sounded unbelievable, and yet the keystone was the only logical conclusion he could muster.†   (source)
  • Tonight, however, with the Priory's keystone offering a verse that pointed directly to this spot, Langdon no longer felt so smug.†   (source)
  • If they did not reveal where they had placed the keystone, Silas would have to enter and persuade them with force.†   (source)
  • If Langdon were to have any chance of helping Leigh, or of ever seeing the keystone again, it was essential that he find the tomb first.†   (source)
  • He propped himself fully on his crutches, gracelessly keeping the gun aimed at Sophie, and removed the keystone from his pocket.†   (source)
  • Set down the keystone, and we'll talk.†   (source)
  • One will rise to Grand Master and they will induct a new sénéchal and share the secret of the keystone.†   (source)
  • "Your grandfather and three others died tonight," Teabing continued, "and they did so to keep this keystone away from the Church.†   (source)
  • If we unlock the keystone, I am certain we will discover a map that indicates we have moved in the proper direction.†   (source)
  • And yet, I am curious if you understand that successfully unlocking the keystone will bring with it a far greater trial.†   (source)
  • Now, however, here in the Temple Church, with Langdon threatening to break the keystone, Rémy's future was at risk.†   (source)
  • His hands felt damp on the keystone as he waited for Rémy to finish tying and gagging Teabing in back with the rope they had found in the trunk.†   (source)
  • You would never break the keystone.†   (source)
  • Sophie, according to Priory lore, the keystone is an encoded map… a map that reveals the hiding place of the Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • Time seemed to freeze, morphing into a slow-motion dream as Teabing's entire world became the airborne keystone.†   (source)
  • The Priory keystone—if this was indeed what they were holding—was not at all what Langdon had imagined.†   (source)
  • The secret knowledge of how to use a wedged keystone to build a vaulted archway was part of the wisdom that had made the Masons such wealthy craftsmen, and it was a secret they guarded carefully.†   (source)
  • The Temple Church was the perfect location to steal the keystone from Robert and Sophie, and its apparent relevance to the poem made it a plausible decoy.†   (source)
  • Tell me where the keystone is.†   (source)
  • To talk to you about the keystone.†   (source)
  • It would prevent Saunière from persuading Langdon to keep quiet, and it would ensure that once the keystone was in Teabing's hands, Langdon would be in Paris for recruitment should Teabing need him.†   (source)
  • Langdon had delivered the keystone directly to the heart of the operation, which was a pleasant surprise, and yet he had brought the police on his tail.†   (source)
  • Silas was looking forward to finding the keystone and giving it to the Teacher so they could recover what the brotherhood had long ago stolen from the faithful.†   (source)
  • Even if Langdon had any idea how to find a Priory member, chances were good that whoever stepped forward to take the keystone could be the enemy himself.†   (source)
  • In English we call it a keystone.†   (source)
  • For years he had traveled to cathedrals and churches all over France, paying for special access, examining hundreds of archways beneath rose windows, searching for an encrypted keystone.†   (source)
  • As if this burden were not great enough, Langdon now realized that any possibility of finding a way to return the keystone to the Priory had just evaporated.†   (source)
  • Taking the keystone for himself.†   (source)
  • Each had told Silas the exact same thing—that the keystone was ingeniously hidden at a precise location inside one of Paris's ancient churches—the Eglise de Saint-Sulpice.†   (source)
  • Silas was supposed to break in and steal the keystone from you in Château Villette—thus removing you from the equation without hurting you, and exonerating me from any suspicion of complicity.†   (source)
  • It answers a lot of questions—the issue of your grandfather's desperation to pass on the keystone, as well as the intensity with which Fache is hunting me.†   (source)
  • This recovery mission, as Rémy had described it, was to be clean and simple: Enter the church, take the keystone, and walk out; no killing, no struggle.†   (source)
  • What do you know of the keystone?†   (source)
  • Sophie, you realize that if this is indeed the keystone, your grandfather's access to it implies he was exceptionally powerful within the Priory of Sion.†   (source)
  • I am holding the Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • I moved here to find the keystone.†   (source)
  • It seemed to explain why Saunière might have transferred the keystone to Sophie and Langdon—people outside the brotherhood, people he knew were not compromised.†   (source)
  • The idea that the cryptex had been designed by Leonardo da Vinci—former Grand Master of the Priory of Sion—shone as another tantalizing indicator that this was indeed the Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • The keystone is here in Paris.†   (source)
  • "Actually," Langdon replied, feeling a tingle of excitement ripple through him, "the keystone is believed to have been created by the Priory sometime in the past couple of decades."†   (source)
  • My captors have the keystone!†   (source)
  • The keystone is in a bank?†   (source)
  • Hand the keystone to Silas.†   (source)
  • After all, if Langdon's instincts were correct, the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion had just transferred the brotherhood's legendary keystone to his granddaughter and simultaneously commanded her to find Robert Langdon.†   (source)
  • He will recover the keystone.†   (source)
  • The British historian hoped the touch of the Grand Master's cryptex would make Langdon fully grasp the magnitude of its contents, coaxing his academic curiosity to overwhelm all else, forcing him to realize that failure to unlock the keystone would mean the loss of history itself.†   (source)
  • The keystone is well hidden.†   (source)
  • This is the Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • Did you mention the keystone?†   (source)
  • The keystone is in danger!†   (source)
  • Now, hand me the keystone.†   (source)
  • The keystone has been found.†   (source)
  • Grail seekers, familiar with the Priory's history of cryptic double-talk, had concluded la clef de voûte was a literal keystone—an architectural wedge—an engraved, encrypted stone, inserted into a vaulted archway in a church.†   (source)
  • The keystone.†   (source)
  • The keystone.†   (source)
  • Despite Langdon's assurances that the keystone had nothing to do with her past, Sophie still sensed something deeply personal entwined within this mystery, as if this cryptex, forged by her grandfather's own hands, were trying to speak to her and offer some kind of resolution to the emptiness that had haunted her all these years.†   (source)
  • I have the keystone.†   (source)
  • He saved the keystone.†   (source)
  • You've seen the keystone?†   (source)
  • We removed the keystone.†   (source)
  • The keystone!†   (source)
  • The Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • Take the keystone.†   (source)
  • You know of the keystone?†   (source)
  • Keystone should be so lucky.†   (source)
  • It was the keystone to the whole structure of deception, the parallax that would draw Carlos out of position into their sights.†   (source)
  • I smiled at the idea of Diane and Mary Alice lifting up the RSA, his feet doing a wild walk in the air like a Keystone Kop.†   (source)
  • Like a bolt of lightning, the crack struck and shattered the keystone above the doors to the building, showering the floor below with pebbles.†   (source)
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