coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
Example Sentences
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Besides, he had selected a dark spot for his coign of observation.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
These dream-like glimpses of the City of Flowers, which every coign of vantage seems to give us round Florence–might we not, sometimes, imagine that we had stumbled unawares upon the Platonic City of the Perfect?
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
The text of this book is frequently corrupt; but the evident sense of these ungrammatical lines 3-5 is that the envoys were allowed to watch the unsuspecting damsels from some hidden coign of vantage.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
Looking around for the best coign of vantage, Mr. Herriott noticed the narrow arbor covered by a thick growth of butter-bean vines, where he stood secure from observation.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
From this coign of vantage Stirling watched developments with eyes which had been sharpened by suspicion and a determination to find out the truth about the unknown woman.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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