| 单词 | coign |
| 例句 | Jack watched from his coign of vantage in the bush. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z They naturally selected the coign of vantage, and between them slew the tiger. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z From this coign of vantage he watched her as she again arose and plodded off through the dust with the bag swinging over one shoulder. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z Nave, choir, and transept glorified with light, While tongues of fire on coign and carving play! England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z I did so with some inward reluctance, for this was the seat par excellence of the master of "Hildebrand Hundred"; from this very coign of vantage Francis Graeme had toppled to his death. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z She pirouetted up to the front of his box pretty often during the evening, and several times hurled ancient wheezes at the riotous funnymen from that coign of vantage. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Helston had slid down from his coign of vantage, and now deliberately walked forth into the open. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The roar of the city mounted to their high coign only in a subdued murmur, as of the sea at a distance. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The text of this book is frequently corrupt; but the evident sense of these ungrammatical lines 3-5 is that the envoys were allowed to watch the unsuspecting damsels from some hidden coign of vantage. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Mrs. Bundy, from her fifty years' coign of vantage, saw life as Arthur could not see it; above all, she saw its width, which was a great vision to attain. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Grimalkin, blinking down from his coign of vantage, saw rabbit after rabbit bolt from its 'form' only to turn a somersault and collapse into a palpitating heap. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z That is to say, put yourself in the author's place, and try to see his work from his point, of view, which is sure to be a coign of vantage. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z With a sidelong hop and two flaps of the wing, he half springs, half glides to another coign of vantage. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The crow flaps in sudden alarm, the mink takes shelter in his coign of vantage among the driftwood, and the jays raise a multitudinous clamor of discordant outcry. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The excitement was intense among the passengers, who thronged the bulwarks at every coign of vantage, eagerly scanning the dark, silent sea. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z “It is magnificent!” said Yseulte, as from the coign of vantage which the other had secured for her she surveyed the approaching band. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z He eyed her momentarily from a vast and aloof coign of vantage. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Somewhat disconsolately, the Myra's prize crew descended the rigging and other coigns of vantage and regained the deck. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Fortunately Kenneth and his companion were spared the horrors of having to witness the indiscriminate shooting of luckless civilians, but, from their coign of vantage, they were spectators of the scene of destruction that followed. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Sir Geoffrey, from his coign of vantage in the chancel, perceived with some astonishment that Hamlin had a script on the cushion in front of him. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z From a coign of vantage in the cavern, of which we were ignorant, he had observed the secreting of the jewels by the Bo's'n. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The top of the Moot Hall and other coigns of vantage had all been occupied by the Germans. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z 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. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z He carried a lighted candle in his hand, and Charles, peering from his darkened coign of vantage through the half-opened door, beheld the sensual visage in a circle of light. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z There is nothing of this in Dublin,—no curious doors or windows, no “jutty frieze” nor “coign of vantage.” With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z “Matter enough that I knock,” replied the man, so insolently that Richard’s blood took fire, for every word could be distinctly heard from his coign of vantage. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z From this coign of vantage Stirling watched developments with eyes which had been sharpened by suspicion and a determination to find out the truth about the unknown woman. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z "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." A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z I glanced up to the coign of the corner house. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Stratford-on-Avon, too, belongs to this part of the country,—a little old-world town, where the bust of Shakespeare looks down upon you from every coign of vantage. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The trunk of the leaning birch, so slender that his arms and legs could clasp it, had given him access to this coign of vantage and now offered a retreat from it. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z A seaman brushed by him and hurried forward to where the natives were standing on the higher coign of vantage which marked the forepeak. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Besides, he had selected a dark spot for his coign of observation. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It is for the young whites of the party; the native employés contenting themselves with such coigns of shelter as are afforded by the trunks of the mowanas. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. Sinister Street, vol. 1 From that coign of vantage he saw the town stretched out beneath him. The Cottage of Delight A Novel It would be far better to seize this coign of vantage, especially as Copley had not the smallest idea of the bitter enemy he was maintaining under his roof. Hard Pressed The lawyer jumped up and drew a protesting Emerald from her horsehair coign of vantage. Shadows of Flames A Novel But Mr Chute had by this time fastened the shutter, and had descended from his coign of vantage, looking very red and feeling terribly mortified at having been detected. The New Mistress A Tale 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. Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa The crowds lining the streets, for about seven miles along which the procession passed, were innumerable; and every window and coign of vantage, with numerous scaffoldings along the line, appeared filled with spectators. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 You can almost call it a hobby of mine, to dwell upon the fortunes of the men and women who pass across the great stage on which I have an obscure coign of vantage. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Deign, then, oh my lord, to rest in these arms of mine, and contemplate your victory from a safe coign of vantage.' The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. From their coigns the priceless portraits of the S. Croix gazed complacently down upon him. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch 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. Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa It was unavoidable, under the circumstances, that the strife between our two opposing systems of labor should gather about the federal government and rage fiercest for its possession as a supreme coign of vantage. Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 From this coign she had a view of the secluded portion of the Trescott grounds that was behind the stable. The Monster and Other Stories 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 Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) He knew that his coign of vantage, by some secret confluence of architectural lines, gave him the very best of the delight of hearing that the vast concert-hall contained. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales The coigns, parapets and mullions were all of a delicately-tinted orange stone. The Thread of Gold Before you have discouraged her, you may have to shunt her off of every plate or other "coign of vantage" with boards or shingles. Ways of Nature One spring there were four robins' nests on my house and outbuildings—in the vines, on window-sills, or other coigns of vantage. Under the Maples It is just twenty years, marked by the opening Session, since I first had the opportunity of viewing the House of Commons from a coign of 'vantage behind the Speaker's Chair. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The sight from this 'coign of vantage' was indeed imposing. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Much of the concourse was thus visible from any moderate coign of vantage, and from the Grand Stand in Donegal Place the sight was truly wonderful. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Finding an exquisite coign of vantage amid the roots of a gnarled old trunk springing from a built-up semicircular patch of level ground, I sat me down to rest, and read, and dream. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories There were men on the roof and in the lobby, in the garage, everywhere skulkers might be expected to look for coigns of vantage from which to proceed against Ellen Estabrook. The Mind Master Therefore, dear reader, I will survey the whole prospect from a secure coign of vantage upon the mainland, and trust my impressions thereof may prove of some slight service to you. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. He beheld the city from his uptown coign of vantage and the vision troubled him. McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 The "back iv a ditch" is a proverbial expression for the coign of vantage assumed for the slaying of your enemy. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Meanwhile I sat within hearing distance, and occasionally took a peep at them from my coign of vantage. A Romantic Young Lady But all Gedge saw was the gleam of a ramrod a hundred yards away, where one of the hill-men who had kept to his coign of vantage was rapidly reloading. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills From this coign 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. In Château Land Nave, choir and transept glorified with light, While tongues of fire on coign and carving play! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold It seemed to be a coign plucked out of an old French château, and inset here like a rare plant in an old stone wall. Border Ghost Stories Secondly, from my coign of vantage I had a most lovely view of the pavement outside the station. Jonah and Co. The garden was lit here and there with fairy lamps and there were coigns of shadow where couples were sitting out chatting and enjoying the beauty of the night. The Ghost Girl Getting ourselves safely into the fork of the tree, we continued to shoot from our coign of vantage till the big fellow dropped. Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method It will be interesting to note how, in some Houses, the library slowly expanded itself, occupying, one after another, every coign of vantage-ground. The Care of Books The little hills abound with coigns of vantage, rewarding the pedestrian; while even the driving tourist finds a rich harvest for the eye in the wonderfully diversified landscape presented on all sides. Chronicles of Strathearn The drawbridge was lowered, and, from his coign of vantage, Mildmay saw the professor boldly cross it and walk up to the gate, through which, after a brief parley with the gate-keeper, he disappeared. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure 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 It was an average night, quiet and dark up there, but Henry knew that three pairs of good eyes in the coign of the crevice were watching everything that went on below. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods 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. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Two outpost burghers lay at the top of the hill in the grass, and from their coign of vantage they had a clear view of the railway line. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War Once again it broke upon the solitary figure of the old man straining his eyes from his coign of vantage on the dread shoals of the Red Islands. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers In addition, one finds the usual Lombard grotesques—two sea-monsters, biting each other; harpy-birds; a dragon with a twisted tail; little men grinning and squatting in adaptation to coigns and angles of the windows. New Italian sketches Jake climbed up to his former coign of vantage, and as soon as he clapped his eye to the peep-hole he held up his hand in warning. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess 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. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. From this coign of vantage I was able to overlook the whole of the fighting ground, besides which I was in constant touch with my officers, and could tell them all the enemy's movements. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War 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 Rookwood Place was a fine, old, irregular pile, of considerable size, presenting a rich, picturesque outline, with its innumerable gable-ends, its fantastical coigns, and tall crest of twisted chimneys. Rookwood From almost every other coign of vantage in the interior I had seen it and found it more or less unsatisfying. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska At dances, he propped himself against a wall, in a doorway or in some coign of vantage about the staircase, looking limp and miserable, but keenly observant all the time. Robert Louis Stevenson Meanwhile the cavalry replaced their guns behind the women's waggons and fired on us from that coign of vantage. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War From this coign of vantage they are in position to produce serious disturbances of two of our most important functions,—respiration and digestion,—and three out of the five senses,—smell, taste, and hearing. Preventable Diseases From that coign, I heard him say his last farewell words: "Vanish from these garish lights for evermore!" John Forster Here, Sam Pengelly was standing by the taffrail, and from this coign of vantage we both watched with much interest the operation of getting the ship under weigh. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story During the time of the conquest of the City of Mexico these azoteas formed veritable coigns of vantage for the Aztecs, who poured down a hail of darts and stones upon the besiegers. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development This coign of safety billowed outward from the pattern towards the building like an arm of cumulus cloud and the top of it rose like a column to a height above my range. Highways in Hiding Warde, from some coign of vantage, had seen a boy leave his house. The Hill A Romance of Friendship In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Wall'd round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 To 'spot' these shy, retiring batteries was of course imperative, but when spotted they vanished to some other coign of vantage, equally inconspicuous, and continued to rain fire upon the minesweepers. Winning a Cause World War Stories 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 From the sharpness of the stone at the coigns it would seem that very extensive restoration, if not absolute rebuilding, of the walls was carried on in this part of the church. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings They went down to the lower hall, the white-faced servants staring at them from coigns of vantage; and the Inspector glanced swiftly at the window and then at the hall. The Woman's Way When we come to measure rulers who make divine claims for their duties, from any such coign of flabbiness as this, no wonder we stand dumb. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View 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. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb. The Mark of the Beast Aided by the local militia, O'Neil now dashed ahead and fearlessly skirmished with the enemy's flankers from every coign of vantage. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War 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. The Lighted Match It was a coign of vantage which I shared with the ancestral copper warming-pan, and from it I could see the whole group. More Tales of the Ridings In addition, one finds the 109 usual Lombard grotesques—two sea-monsters, biting each other; harpy-birds; a dragon with a twisted tail; little men grinning and squatting in adaptation to coigns and angles of the windows. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series They came to pass that way, through the sweetness of it, and this made a coign of vantage for the men with trays, who were very persecuting there. Hilda A Story of Calcutta A detective, or a friend of Mrs. Hallam's in a coign from which the plunderers of her pantry could be noted? Visionaries The next wave threw her back again, but luckily more steadily, so that I was enabled to throw my coil of rope down upon her deck from my coign of vantage. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles Thus we were about 4½ feet from the water level; and from this coign of vantage we could command a full view of the tank, which covered an area of about four acres. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition Behind them, covering every coign of vantage, every roof and wall, are crowds of Afghans, silent, subdued, and expectant. The Story of the Guides Five thousand dollars will cover every possible coign of bill-sticking advantage and hang, besides, a lithograph of Mr. Shepard in every window in the city of New York. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 During the evening festivities the Town Hall was brilliantly lighted, and every seat in the galleries and coigns of vantage were occupied. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Dickon, whose wits were nimbler than his legs, understood what he was to do and slipped away, Desmond returning to his coign of vantage as noiselessly as he came. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Nothing loath apparently, Baubie established herself at the end of the fender, and from that coign of vantage watched the on-goings about her with the stoicism of a red Indian. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. These had been a dread and a destruction which the Jews had been unable to overthrow; coigns of vantage from which the enemy had been able to deal the sturdiest blows of the campaign. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem From his coign of vantage in the Land Office, he watched the trend of opinion within the party, not forgetting to observe at the same time the movements of the Whigs. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics At the northern capital I spent forty years; and I have recently passed three years at Wuchang on the banks of the Yang-tse Kiang, a special coign of vantage for the study of central China. The Awakening of China Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs. Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics Perched upon their coigns of vantage, these villages seem always menacing, as if Saracen pirates, or Genoese marauders, or bandits bent on vengeance, were still for ever on the watch. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The arrival had many witnesses; for on hearing of the accident the large party assembled for the dancing class had at once dropped all employment and flocked to various coigns of vantage. Lewis Rand The homely toiler as such, all members of homely undistinguished classes and conditions of men, presented, as embodiments of those classes and conditions, no coign of vantage to his art. Robert Browning Discontent with the original basis of the Union, which had given the South its political coign of vantage, broke out first in New England. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist No flowery message, compliment, or appeal, not even Mary Stagg's kindly importunity, could bring her from that coign of vantage. Audrey 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. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Mocket, on his coign of vantage, was caught again by the more apparent drama, and looked and listened greedily. Lewis Rand We were conducted into the safe seclusion of the Visitors' Gallery, from which coign of vantage we could look down unharmed upon the frantic multitude below. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 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. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Yea, even where most cunningly she was wrought, The fire has cleft its way each coign into, For wood and stone searching her bosom through. A Celtic Psaltery But the safest coign of vantage from which to look at it is that formed by the facts. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference He could not force home any of his shrewd-planned thrusts; nor could he drive M. Étienne out of his coign to where in the open the two could make short work of him. Helmet of Navarre 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 Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph. Max I strode aimlessly to and fro, striving at every coign to pierce with my eyesight the white drift. At a Winter's Fire 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.... V. V.'s Eyes A conning tower soared high above the De Beers mine, from which coign of vantage a keen eye swept the horizon for signs of their advance. The Siege of Kimberley The sweet she-creatures chase From all old coigns of vantage harried man. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 He imagined the boy sitting up there at some coign of vantage on the bluff, admonishing, advising him dryly, while he laughed in his sleeve. The Rim of the Desert Piranesi even in his own little fenced-off coign of art is not comparable to the etcher of the Hundred Guilder print, nor are there close analogies in their respective handling of darks and lights. Promenades of an Impressionist "Here at each coign of every antique street A memory hath taken root in stone, Here Raleigh shone." The Charm of Oxford Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence. The Collectors 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. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story Shosshi replied that he had not taken sixpence, that the coign was not one of vantage. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People But perhaps it was respect for invisible spirits which drove the sleeper eventually to abandon his coign of vantage to the service of aesthetic beauty, and to stretch himself on the open floor. Kimono An ancient settee had been placed in this coign of vantage, and upon this they established themselves by mutual consent. The Knave of Diamonds From that coign of vantage, my faithful grandsire had no doubt smoked out many a sinner, and had not been sparing of the due polemic fulminations in times of controversy. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Platforms as much as forty feet high supplied coigns of vantage for the look-out. The Long White Cloud The whole structure was built, says the survey, "of excellent brick, with coigns, jambs, and cornices of stone." The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance You are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight. The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Once in that coign of refuge, he hammered on the door with the energy of a frightened man. The Castle Inn Abandoning our last coign of vantage, let us descend in imagination and mingle familiarly among men. Four-Dimensional Vistas Agonised yells to the gentleman who guided the deliberate steps of the pachyderm from a coign of vantage on the back of his neck, awoke him to an appreciation of the situation. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil It is so closely guarded from below that from our secret coign of vantage we seemed to be looking down into the heart of forbidden things. In Morocco The dirigible from its coign of vantage would be able to sight a hostile squadron if it were within visual range and would communicate the fact to the commander of the fleet below. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War There was a custom of Canaan, time-worn and seldom honored in the breach, which put Ariel, that afternoon, in easy possession of a coign of vantage commanding the front gate. The Conquest of Canaan Wast thou so jealous of one little coign of happiness that thou must needs enter there,—thou, O Death? The Souls of Black Folk I awaited the coming of the serow at various coigns of vantage where they said it was bound to pass, while the four men surrounded it from different directions. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil 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 purchaser. The Oakdale Affair With infinite caution he had moved so that he could see her, arriving at a coign of vantage just as she closed the book. The Flirt Rowland was not shaped for an acrobat, and his enterprise was difficult; but he kept his wits about him, made the most of narrow foot-holds and coigns of vantage, and at last secured his prize. Roderick Hudson From his coign of vantage at the little port hole Dan saw Madame de la Fontaine pick her way across the Dunes and come upon the little beach. The Inn at the Red Oak She smiled upon him wistfully—and leniently from her remote coign of superior intuitive knowledge of human nature. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama 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. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Even from her coign of vantage upon the balcony, whence wide prospects disclosed themselves, everything looked foolish, pointless, of the nature of an unpardonably stale joke. The Far Horizon And one by one they were summoned by some endearing diminutive, until the nine cats had taken possession of every possible coign of vantage which was offered by the old lady's capacious person. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories There was not much to see, after all, as the Reverend Billy remarked when they had reached a coign of vantage below the curve. A Fool for Love Twenty years ago, when I crossed the continent from San Francisco, I noticed with disgust the advertisements stencilled on every second rock in the canyons of Nevada, and defacing every coign of vantage around Niagara. America To-day, Observations and Reflections I know a woman whose splendors vex Where the flesh joins— A slope of light and a circumflex Of clefts and coigns. Toward the Gulf However, by the exertions of our marines—who should have been at them long ago—these sharp-shooters from the coign of vantage were now reduced to three brave fellows. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War His admonition would dissolve in an unrestrained roar of laughter as she wickedly "shinned" up the porch post to a coign of vantage on the vine-covered roof. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories But the assembly would not thus be dislodged from the coign of vantage; they stuck to their patent, and pointed out that nothing was therein said about a commission? The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Each held successfully his own coign of vantage. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood The author invites it to play at blind-man's-buff with the characters, instead of unsealing its eyes and enabling it to watch the game from its Olympian coign of vantage. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Harris could not penetrate the ten-fold barrier; but he lay in wait; watched from some coign every Royal exit and entrance, careful that Hogarth never saw his face; and he cherished the knife-edge. The Lord of the Sea Beggars followed him on the streets, awaited him in their chosen coigns of vantage on the corners, or haunted him on the ferry-boat that took him each day from his home to his office. Hawthorne and His Circle Vehicles came to a halt, were wedged dose to the curbs, and became coigns of vantage; office windows, store-fronts, balconies, and roof-tops began to cluster with a human freight. The Net Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales From this coign of vantage she obstinately refused to budge, and sat in angry seclusion until the vessel reached Ipswich late in the evening. Many Cargoes The little outlying mountain cot becomes a separate world in its own right, a coign of vantage affording a clear view of the surrounding countryside where we get profound insight into human nature. Seven Icelandic Short Stories He rushed from his coign of observation, out of the bank building, and dashed into a telephone booth. Constance Dunlap They came to pass that way, through the sweetness of it, and this made a coign of vantage for the men with trays who were very persecuting there. The Path of a Star I studied her face minutely from our coign of vantage. The Treasure-Train They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage. Ulysses The four English people, being newcomers, sat in their coign of vantage to watch. Women in Love Our bold and reckless enemy, Relaxing not his plans, has treasured time To mass his monstrous force on all the coigns From which our coast is close assailable. The Dynasts But for I find at every coign obscure Base lilies which spread hooks where flowers should blow Needs must I fear lest these to ruin lure. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini He had still a pocketful of cartridges, and there in a coign of the old battlements he would prove an ugly customer to the pursuit. Huntingtower Such a coign of vantage is offered by the nature of the aesthetic attitude,—for since Kant there has been among aestheticians no essential difference of opinion on this point. The Psychology of Beauty The window was a coign of vantage, commanding the corner of Carewe and Main streets. The Two Vanrevels Our idea was that we could be indulgent spectators, regarding from some coign of vantage the antics of the foolish crowd. Idle Ideas in 1905 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. Notes of a War Correspondent In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 From his coign of vantage on that desolate waste, and with the aid of his telescope, no stranger could approach within two or three miles of his cabin without undergoing his scrutiny. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened. Openings in the Old Trail Yet before I had time to establish myself in my usual coign of vantage behind the door I found myself pounced upon by Mimi—always the cause of my misfortunes! Boyhood 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. Notes of a War Correspondent There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Leuthen Village, we observe, was crammed with Austrians spitting fire from every coign of vantage; Church and Churchyard especially are a citadel of death. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 The rest of the population were in coigns, gazing. 1492 He had never been able to weigh it all at one operation, and hence considered himself to have been shut out from a new and most edifying coign of contemplation. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Considering this vista, Tansey at length persuaded himself that the seeming mountains were, in fact, the convent of Santa Mercedes, with which ancient and bulky pile he was better familiar from different coigns of view. Roads of Destiny They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to tower, Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew. The House of Dust; a symphony It was not long before the seats on the daïs were filled, while the tenants and guests of lesser importance had occupied all the coigns of vantage not reserved. Lair of the White Worm |
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