coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
Example Sentences
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“Matter enough that I knock,” replied the man, so insolently that Richard’s blood took fire, for every word could be distinctly heard from his coign of vantage.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
The lawyer jumped up and drew a protesting Emerald from her horsehair coign of vantage.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
From this coign of vantage Stirling watched developments with eyes which had been sharpened by suspicion and a determination to find out the truth about the unknown woman.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
As our friends noiselessly gained their coign of vantage, the prisoner was speaking, and his voice, though clear, was so weak and low that the trio had to strain their ears to catch his words.
From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Fletcher, Lawrence
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
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