coign

1 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.

2 Jack watched from his coign of vantage in the bush.

3 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.

4 With a sidelong hop and two flaps of the wing, he half springs, half glides to another coign of vantage.

5 He eyed her momentarily from a vast and aloof coign of vantage.

6 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.

7 Nave, choir and transept glorified with light, While tongues of fire on coign and carving play!

8 The lawyer jumped up and drew a protesting Emerald from her horsehair coign of vantage.

9 The coigns, parapets and mullions were all of a delicately-tinted orange stone.

10 He beheld the city from his uptown coign of vantage and the vision troubled him.

11 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.

12 People stood at every coign of vantage on both sides of the road to watch the gala parade.

人们站在大路两边每个便于观看的地点来观看节日游行。

13 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.

14 The roar of the city mounted to their high coign only in a subdued murmur, as of the sea at a distance.

15 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.

16 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.

17 "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."

18 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.

19 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.

20 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.

1 楔

cuneal cuneatic key pin wedge sphenoid coigne

2 隅

corner angle turning nook coigne

3 外角

quoin exterior angle cant outcorner coigne

4 隅石

quoin coigne cornerstone pillar stone