coign of vantage

Was it possible to find some coign of vantage from which he might see the fun?

It was not only a spectacular but also a marvelous coign of vantage.

They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.

This coign of vantage allowed Blade to see what he had not seen before-.

He could, from that coign of vantage, look over the rence.

The explosion and its consequences did not look at all impressive from the Lensman's coign of vantage.

Two giant biyelks were lumbering towards their coign of vantage.

The game is similar to the Flash game Coign of Vantage.

We had come to this coign of vantage, such as it was, very early this morning, even at the second Ahn.

Too, in some cases, Appanius is permitted to observe the women from a secret coign of vantage."

The Coign of Vantage (1909)

The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant.

Coign, as in "coign of vantage"

The camp commander, he in charge of the Cosian forces at Ar's Station, had resumed his coign of vantage.

As I watched from a coign of vantage, he reached up and guided down an enormous helmet which, when he locked it into place, engulfed his head completely.

From his close-buried coign of vantage the Mouser saw the in-blown cords part as a naked girl entered the long chamber past the toiling treadslave.

The Captain general, from his coign of vantage atop the desk, was spraying both entrances with bullets like a gardener watering two flower- beds with a hose.

"The Quarrel over the Religious Roots of European Identity in the European Constitution and the Nature of Historical Explanation: A Catholic Coign of Vantage".

From their coign of vantage the two Patrolmen saw their gallant ship's terrific end, saw the 'one pirate vessel suffer collision with the flying fragment, saw the other escape inertialess, saw her disappear.

Bridge made his purchases, the volume of which required a large gunny-sack for transportation, and while he was thus occupied the fox-eyed man clung to his coign of vantage, himself unnoticed by the pur- chaser.

No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.

Some day, some night, from this coign of vantage, you shall perhaps be startled by the detonation of the judgment gun-- not sharp and empty like the crack of cannon, but deep-mouthed and unctuously solemn.

The path up to this coign of vantage, where I think I shall make it a habit to ensconce myself a while of a morning, is for a little while common to the peasant and a little clear brooklet.

The screen was apparently in itself a coign of vantage, flying through space with the velocity of light, and the watchers gasped involuntarily and drew themselves together as with that unthinkable speed they flashed down toward the surface of Callisto.

Although neither of them was unacquainted with deep space, it presents a spectacle that never fails to awe even the most seasoned observer; and no human being had ever before viewed the wonders of space from such a coign of vantage.