coign
Britishnoun
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That is to say, put yourself in the author's place, and try to see his work from his point, of view, which is sure to be a coign of vantage.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
Grimalkin, blinking down from his coign of vantage, saw rabbit after rabbit bolt from its 'form' only to turn a somersault and collapse into a palpitating heap.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by M. D. Haviland
The text of this book is frequently corrupt; but the evident sense of these ungrammatical lines 3-5 is that the envoys were allowed to watch the unsuspecting damsels from some hidden coign of vantage.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
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 Rowland E. Robinson
I glanced up to the coign of the corner house.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
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