"From our coign of vantage we continued to shoot" 21.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference

In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark of the Beast] Reference

It was not only a spectacular but also a marvelous coign of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorers Of Gor]

Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

How long I sat out there, in a coign of carved stone and rough rock, I do not know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam Will You Talk]

Before the words had well left her lips, Rosalie had sprung to her coign of vantage crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

The camp commander, he in charge of the Cosian forces at Ar's Station, had resumed his coign of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegades Of Gor]

The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

From her coign of vantage on the cliff top, Plutina could see, on a height above, the brush-covered distillery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

On a coign of vantage overlooking the steep slope the pale lady stood with her face turned toward the Bürgenstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference

The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

It seemed to be a coign plucked out of an old French château, and inset here like a rare plant in an old stone wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Yet before I had time to establish myself in my usual coign of vantage behind the door I found myself pounced upon by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood] Reference

Behind them, covering every coign of vantage, every roof and wall, are crowds of Afghans, silent, subdued, and expectant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Guides] Reference

Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

Getting ourselves safely into the fork of the tree, we continued to shoot from our coign of vantage till the big fellow dropped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference

Perhaps Your Lordship might, from Your Lordship's coign of vantage, find an opportunity of observing the nature of this freight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

We passed out of the city by a gate where in a little coign of vantage a cobbler was thoughtfully hammering away in the tumult at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

A conning tower soared high above the De Beers mine, from which coign of vantage a keen eye swept the horizon for signs of their advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

From his coign of vantage at the little port hole Dan saw Madame de la Fontaine pick her way across the Dunes and come upon the little beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference

They came to pass that way, through the sweetness of it, and this made a coign of vantage for the men with trays who were very persecuting there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

At dances, he propped himself against a wall, in a doorway or in some coign of vantage about the staircase, looking limp and miserable, but keenly observant all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

I studied her face minutely from our coign of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure-Train] Reference

They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Warde, from some coign of vantage, had seen a boy leave his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference

Walter, who enjoyed the whole scene from his coign of vantage beside.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Château Land] Reference

There was a rush for the coign of vantage, and a great levelling of glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900] Reference

The four English people, being newcomers, sat in their coign of vantage to watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

Secondly, from my coign of vantage I had a most lovely view of the pavement outside the station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonah and Co.] Reference

Wast thou so jealous of one little coign of happiness that thou must needs enter there, -- thou, O Death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Souls of Black Folk] Reference

He sent me to the dictionary several times for carr, scroll pond, procrypsis, coign, spates and zugunruhe.    From Wordnik.com.  [meeyauw] Reference

Cf. 'no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

With infinite caution he had moved so that he could see her, arriving at a coign of vantage just as she closed the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flirt] Reference

From this lofty coign I could occasionally get far and faint glimpses of the mysterious "Low Country," which was just visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

Jake climbed up to his former coign of vantage, and as soon as he clapped his eye to the peep-hole he held up his hand in warning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess] Reference