coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
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Jack watched from his coign of vantage in the bush.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang
From his elevated coign of vantage, Ransey Tansey could see for many miles all around him.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
The crow flaps in sudden alarm, the mink takes shelter in his coign of vantage among the driftwood, and the jays raise a multitudinous clamor of discordant outcry.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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 Richard Jefferies
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
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