coign
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing coign
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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.
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 Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
From this coign of vantage Stirling watched developments with eyes which had been sharpened by suspicion and a determination to find out the truth about the unknown woman.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
"No, I met only Mrs. Mitchell, who told me you had gone to watch the sunset, and I knew this must be your coign of vantage."
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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 Jefferies, Richard
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