| Platforms as much as forty feet high supplied coigns of vantage for the look-out. |
| 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. |
| In the sudden wash of light from the courtyard he saw a warrior standing in one of the coigns high above him. |
| These were all admirably designed as coigns of vantage to meet and check surprises, bursting from a passion-tossed mob. |
| The seas would occupy the depressions and form the faces of the pyramid, while the continents would be situated round the coigns and would reach out along the edges. |
| He chased a number of them into the sanctity of their own yards, but from these coigns they continued to ridicule him. |
