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Significados de coign em inglês

espanhol
clave

The keystone of an arch.

clave
Uso de coign em inglês
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Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
Openings in the Old Trail
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An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
The system of the world
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From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
Mob Rule in New Orleans / Robert Charles and His Fight to Death,...
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Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-Acoign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
A Wanderer in Venice
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Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
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There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.
The Mark of the Beast
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Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage.
The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tale...
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This wonderful coign of vantage Darwin had reached by 1839.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
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Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph.
Max
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Each held successfully his own coign of vantage.
The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
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From Johann's coign of vantage everything looked orderly.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and...
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You are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight.
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco,...
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Before the words had well left her lips, Rosalie had sprung to her coign of vantage crying:
Peggy Stewart at School
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Translations for coign
Coign ao longo do tempo