| 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. |
| 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. |
| These we used as coigns of vantage and rest, but the last stage almost compelled a retreat. |
| The top of the moot hall and other coigns of vantage had all been occupied by the Germans. |
| 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. |
| These were all admirably designed as coigns of vantage to meet and check surprises, bursting from a passion-tossed mob. |
