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.
Looking around for the best coign of vantage, Mr. Herriott noticed the narrow arbor covered by a thick growth of butter-bean vines, where he stood secure from observation.
The mills beneath their dams and weirs are just as Raphael drew them; and the feeling of air and space reminds one, on each coign of vantage, of some Umbrian picture.
Each coign or point of vantage carries a bastion or tower of Etruscan, Roman, mediæval architecture, tracing the limits of the town upon its mountain plateau.
I was sleeping in a sheltered place in the coign of a cliff, the flock was folded and Boreth was away upon his rounds, and it was then that two robbers stole into the cave.
That coign of safety ceasing to be a coign of safety caused us to move on in search of another, and I came upon Sergeant Borrowe blocking the road with his dynamite gun.
From our coign of safety, with our backs to the hill, the teamster and I assured him that, on that point, he need feel no morbid doubt.
Then he unbended, and admitted me to the body of the auditorium, where I was conducted to a coign of vantage in near proximity to members of the fair sex and galaxy of beauty.
Not being in such a coign of vantage as your honour's excellency, I was misled by the propinquity of heads viewed from the rear.
I deposited them, each in a coign of vantage, and in the course of an hour or two they had swelled out their tinted bodies and expanded their lovely tentacles, and the cup of my joy was full.
Even from this coign of vantage he could see nothing alarming; all around and beneath him, bush and veldt and forest, lay sleeping peacefully under the lovely radiance of the African moon.
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.
Getting ourselves safely into the fork of the tree, we continued to shoot from our coign of vantage till the big fellow dropped.
Then he shrugged his stocky shoulders, the gesture indicating that one can't save a fool from his folly, and established himself at a near-by table, from which coign of vantage he kept us under steady watch.
A climb of a quarter of an hour takes us to an admirable coign of vantage just above the abbey church, and commanding a view of Sancerre and the river.
From this rare coign of vantage one could witness soul-gripping dramas of human history, the happenings of years being compressed within the limits of days.
But the safest coign of vantage from which to look at it is that formed by the facts.
It was impossible that it could become heavier, for the enemy was manning every coign of vantage along the entire line, and blazing so fiercely and pushing in so close that many of the riflemen must have fallen from their own fire.
To reach these it was necessary in the first place to dislodge the society from its coign of vantage, its strategical point in the agitation.
Discontent with the original basis of the Union, which had given the South its political coign of vantage, broke out first in New England.
The wooden bridge, as at the last-named station, is the best coign of vantage from which to obtain adequate views of the three distinct streams, which gallop in joyous ebullitions of foam from the obstructions planted in the channel.
This coign of vantage was occupied by Colonel Pearson, whence he directed the movements of his troops during the fight.
He dreaded unspeakably that he might come into contact with something--he knew not what--on the way; but he reached his coign of vantage without mishap.
From thiscoign of vantage it rises before us, crowning the hill-crest with its many towers and dominating the little village at its feet and the broad river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
