coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
Example Sentences
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I glanced up to the coign of the corner house.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
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
He eyed her momentarily from a vast and aloof coign of vantage.
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
From that coign of vantage he saw the town stretched out beneath him.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
"No, I met only Mrs. Mitchell, who told me you had gone to watch the sunset, and I knew this must be your coign of vantage."
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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