coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
Example Sentences
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Stratford-on-Avon, too, belongs to this part of the country,—a little old-world town, where the bust of Shakespeare looks down upon you from every coign of vantage.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
The excitement was intense among the passengers, who thronged the bulwarks at every coign of vantage, eagerly scanning the dark, silent sea.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
With a sidelong hop and two flaps of the wing, he half springs, half glides to another coign of vantage.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard
The trunk of the leaning birch, so slender that his arms and legs could clasp it, had given him access to this coign of vantage and now offered a retreat from it.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.
It would be far better to seize this coign of vantage, especially as Copley had not the smallest idea of the bitter enemy he was maintaining under his roof.
From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
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