coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
Example Sentences
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Helston had slid down from his coign of vantage, and now deliberately walked forth into the open.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
But Mr Chute had by this time fastened the shutter, and had descended from his coign of vantage, looking very red and feeling terribly mortified at having been detected.
From The New Mistress A Tale by Fenn, George Manville
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
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 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 Robinson, Rowland E.
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