1 Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
2 An archaic word for 'corner' is ' coign , ' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3 From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
4 Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
5 Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-A coign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
6 Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence.
7 There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.
8 Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage.
9 This wonderful coign of vantage Darwin had reached by 1839.
10 There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier.
11 Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph.
12 Each held successfully his own coign of vantage.
13 From Johann's coign of vantage everything looked orderly.
14 Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird
15 You are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight.
16 Before the words had well left her lips, Rosalie had sprung to her coign of vantage crying:
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