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
From a coign of vantage in the cavern, of which we were ignorant, he had observed the secreting of the jewels by the Bo's'n.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
The lawyer jumped up and drew a protesting Emerald from her horsehair coign of vantage.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
The roar of the city mounted to their high coign only in a subdued murmur, as of the sea at a distance.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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.
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