Platforms as much as forty feet high supplied coigns of vantage for the look-out. |
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He chased a number of them into the sanctity of their own yards, but from these coigns they continued to ridicule him. |
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In the sudden wash of light from the courtyard he saw a warrior standing in one of the coigns high above him. |
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Scampering and skittering up stony slopes we bag our coigns of vantage on the hills and sit in this thin heady oxygen. |
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These we used as coigns of vantage and rest, but the last stage almost compelled a retreat. |
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These were all admirably designed as coigns of vantage to meet and check surprises, bursting from a passion-tossed mob. |
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But these featureless plains are merely a disguise for an older, more rustic France, tucked away in coigns of the landscape. |
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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. |
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They were constructed with gray brick walls embedded with middle moldings of red bricks, concrete coigns and crenellated copings on the top of the surrounding walls. |
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Doubtless there are many coigns of vantage from which splendid views of the sky can be had, subject to limitations of some sort. |
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