The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this "coigne of vantage," and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference

States to give them the control of the general government, from which coigne of advantage they could proceed in their own time and way to possess themselves of such other free States as they might want.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

The king when he was lodged in his pauilion, sent to the man a Persian robe, a Cuppe of Golde, and a thousande Darices, (which was a coigne amonges the Persians, wherupon was the Image of Darius) willinge the messenger to saye vnto him, these wordes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Nor again was it to introduce feudalism; for as I have shown, the system already in existence was feudalism without its advantages; the substitution of fixed dues for the barbarous custom of "coigne and livery" was an unmixed benefit to the occupiers of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Ulster Right?] Reference

A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

It is a strange spectacle we witness from this coigne of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of St. Paul] Reference

At every coigne of vantage she found him, or some token of his ceaseless effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taken Alive] Reference

The Parker Pass is the most splendid coigne of vantage on the whole mountain, except the summit itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference

Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference

As thou mightst think, it grew to be their favorite coigne for playing their dragon and princess trickeries.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales] Reference

In this coigne of vantage it turns out that David Lockwin eventually comes to know the family life at the mansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lockwin—The People's Idol] Reference

Hester's eagle eye, supposing it could scan Rose's misdeeds from some coigne of vantage commanding this end of the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

They sat on the steps of the platform, climbed on every coigne of vantage, stood in dense masses in every aisle and corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference

In 1545, Dr. Browne writes: "Here reigneth insatiable ambition; here reigneth continually coigne and livery, and callid extortion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

From his "coigne of vantage" the whitewashed walls and the bright colors of the flag of the fort could be dimly made out, -- twenty odd miles down stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference

Very early on the 8th, I set out accompanied by one of the hunters, in quest of Messrs.D. Stuart, Clarke and D.coigne, who had gone on ahead, the night previous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific] Reference

He married, De - cember 31, 1757 Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of Admiral Gas - coigne, by whom he had nine children, of whom five sons and twa daughters survived him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference

And similarly it may be woman's privilege from her peculiar coigne of vantage as a quiet observer, to whisper just the needed suggestion or the almost forgotten truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice From the South] Reference

So, too, in Ireland, until the seventeenth century, the chieftains enjoyed "coigne and livery" of their tribesmen; and in medieval France there was the lord's droit de gête.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

I. being 2 then of age, had livery of his lands; as also summons a to be at Portsmouth, on September 1st, well fitted with horse and arms, to attend the King into Gas - coigne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

He remained, therefore, just inside the great door, watching from the shadows of the archway what was going on inside, and, without knowing it, himself being watched by the portress from her coigne of vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion] Reference

Until within the last few years the coigne of the old balustraded gallery was connected on the right with the modern brick mass by an ancient wood-work bridge, coeval at least with the oldest portion of the building as it stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference

I, therefore, had begun, as it were, to read Balzac backwards; instead of beginning with the plain, simple, earthly tragedy of the Père Goriot, I first knelt in a beautiful but distant coigne of the great world of his genius -- Seraphita.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Young Man] Reference

And don't I recall you again, sitting on the tip-top stone of the cradle-turret over the highest battlement of the castle of St. Michael's Mount, with not a ledge or coigne of vantage 'twixt you and the fathomless ocean under you, distant three thousand feet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference

As time wore on, the three were as much together as when he was a little lad and they lassies, and sometimes from a window, and sometimes from a quiet coigne in the great hall (this very hall, ye mind, dears), I would sit with my stitchery and mark them at their bright chatter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales] Reference

And who so clipped the coigne or countrefacted it, or chaunged the stampe or diminisshed the weighte: or in lettres and writinges, shoulde adde any thing, by entrelinyng, or otherwise: or should guelde out any thyng, or bryng a forged euidence, Obligacion or Bille, bothe his handes ware cutte of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference

If thou my coynte for Kiblah342 to thy coigne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

And ek to coigne the moneie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference

He, from his coigne of hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems] Reference

Buttress, or coigne of vantage, but this bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Nor coigne of vantage, but this bird hath made.    From Wordnik.com.  [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference

Buttrice, nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

No coigne and Francis Kinwelinarsfae. date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference