coign

• There was a rush for the coign of vantage, and a great levelling of glasses. —  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
• From that coign, I heard him say his last farewell words: "Vanish from these garish lights for evermore One summer Forster and his wife came down to Bangor, I believe from a genial good-natured wish to be there with his friends--a family who were often found there. —  John Forster
• The Club House balconies were crowded and even the roof had been pre-empted by the ladies and their escorts as a coign of vantage from which to view the game. —  A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson
• The air of the street will be grateful As Benton rose he noticed that the Grand Duke was leaning confidentially toward the member of the French Cabinet Noir Fifteen minutes later the two men were ensconced in their more sheltered coign, with wine glasses before them, and all the seeming of idle hours to kill Is Louis ostensibly a friend of the throne?" —  The Lighted Match
• Glancing whitely over her shoulder from this secure coign, she saw that Jack Dalhousie's father still stood unmoving on her sidewalk, staring and leaning on his cane She closed the door quickly, shutting out the sight XXX How it sounded like an Epitaph, but still she would not cry how she thinks of the Beach again, and hugs a Hateful Word to her Bosom; and Hugo starts suddenly on a sort of Wedding-Trip In her own room Carlisle was seized with a wild desire to cry. —  V. V.'s Eyes

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