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Now the NTSB has already gained a powerful ally and possibly the coign of vantage an advantageous position against the wireless industry.

John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban John B. Townsend II 2011

Now the NTSB has already gained a powerful ally and possibly the coign of vantage an advantageous position against the wireless industry.

John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban John B. Townsend II 2011

The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’

Quentin Durward 2008

Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46

Agesilaus 2007

Laconian territory, he came so close to the gates that their officers actually shut out their own Boeotian cavalry on the point of entering, in terror lest the Lacedaemonians might pour into the town in company, and these Boeotian troopers were forced to cling, like bats to a wall, under each coign of vantage beneath the battlements.

Hellenica 2007

The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand.

Finnegans Wake 2006

There were people, crowds of people, clearly visible at the office windows of the upper stories of the casino and cathedral looking out over the crowd: the casino itself might be closed, but either the rest of Billy Fairchild's empire was open for business, or he'd offered it up as a coign of vantage for those interested in seeing the concert but not mingling with the groundlings.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

There were people, crowds of people, clearly visible at the office windows of the upper stories of the casino and cathedral looking out over the crowd: the casino itself might be closed, but either the rest of Billy Fairchild's empire was open for business, or he'd offered it up as a coign of vantage for those interested in seeing the concert but not mingling with the groundlings.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

We passed out of the city by a gate where in a little coign of vantage a cobbler was thoughtfully hammering away in the tumult at

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004