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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ McCarthy, Mary (1967)
But the other guns fired after the interval necessary to withdraw the coigns, flash after flash, bang after bang. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)
Have the coigns in and the guns at extreme depression. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)
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 ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
At "coigns of vantage" there is a bullet-proof palisading, with peepholes through which a volley of musketry might be poured. ❋ Various (N/A)
The stones forming the right edge of the hole are coigns, and have mason-marks on their sides. ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)
To the later work belong the set-off of the base, the coigns, the parapet, the east part of the south wall, the framing of most of the windows and doors, and the buttress and bell-cote at the west end. ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)
Dickens from so many coigns of vantage in the old Saracen's Head, ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)
He knew that from their coigns of vantage afar four separate Boskonian observers were looking on, charged with the responsibility of recording and reporting everything that transpired, and he wanted that report to be complete and conclusive. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)
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. ❋ G. J. Younghusband (N/A)
The rest of the population were in coigns, gazing. ❋ Unknown (1922)
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. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)
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. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
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. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Year by year the town has spread and broadened, stretching out wide arms to adjacent coigns of vantage like Parkstone, Boscombe, ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)
