Sinônimos
Examples for "coign"
Examples for "coign"
1Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
2An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
4Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
5Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-Acoign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
1Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
2An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
4The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.
5This quoin, being graduated to whole degrees, requires a small additional quoin for slight differences of elevation in smooth water.
1A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.
2The view from our coigne of vantage was unspeakably grand.
3What a view there is from this coigne of vantage!
4At every coigne of vantage she found him, or some token of his ceaseless effort.
5A Christian Gathering in Corinth.-Itis a strange spectacle we witness from this coigne of vantage.
6Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!
7She would brave Hester's eagle eye, supposing it could scan Rose's misdeeds from some coigne of vantage commanding this end of the street.