coign
Britishnoun
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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 Coulton, G. G.
From his coign of shadow Forbes watched them.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
Stratford-on-Avon, too, belongs to this part of the country,—a little old-world town, where the bust of Shakespeare looks down upon you from every coign of vantage.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
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.
Mrs. Bundy, from her fifty years' coign of vantage, saw life as Arthur could not see it; above all, she saw its width, which was a great vision to attain.
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
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