coigns

• “One wheel in particular caught his eye — a huge cylinder whose inside seemed to be one single building with balconies, coigns and glittering glass-paneled windows festooning it.”

  Sun of Suns

• “Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.”

  Ulysses

• “It was not long before the seats on the dais were filled, while the tenants and guests of lesser importance had occupied all the coigns of vantage not reserved.”

  The Lair of the White Worm

• “When all were finally seated, the spectacle from the galleries and all coigns of vantage was complete; a gorgeous one to look upon and to remember.”

  Vietnam: Solutions

• “Have the coigns in and the guns at extreme depression.”

  Hornblower And The Hotspur

• “But the other guns fired after the interval necessary to withdraw the coigns, flash after flash, bang after bang.”

  Hornblower And The Hotspur

• “From the coigns of vantage thus gained the British artillery and infantry poured a hail of shot and shell into the doomed defences, while the cavalry hovered outside ready to pounce on those who broke cover.”

  The Story of the Guides

• “Perhaps one never realises the new terror which the Romans must have brought into the life of the Sussex peasant -- a terror which utterly changed the Downs from ramparts of peace into coigns of minatory advantage, and transformed the gaze of security, with which their grassy contours had once been contemplated, into anxious glances of dismay and trepidation -- one never so realises this terror as when one descends”

  Highways & Byways in Sussex

• “At "coigns of vantage" there is a bullet-proof palisading, with peepholes through which a volley of musketry might be poured.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

• “The stones forming the right edge of the hole are coigns, and have mason-marks on their sides.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric

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