coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
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From this coign of vantage he watched her as she again arose and plodded off through the dust with the bag swinging over one shoulder.
From The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle
He eyed her momentarily from a vast and aloof coign of vantage.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
The excitement was intense among the passengers, who thronged the bulwarks at every coign of vantage, eagerly scanning the dark, silent sea.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
From that coign of vantage he saw the town stretched out beneath him.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
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 Lawrence Fletcher
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