coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
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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.
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.
I glanced up to the coign of the corner house.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
A seaman brushed by him and hurried forward to where the natives were standing on the higher coign of vantage which marked the forepeak.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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