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- of a crystal meet A coign, in Geology, is an angular plate around which a continent has formed Coign of vantage, an elevated observation point Coign and...614 bytes (119 words) - 21:59, 3 September 2020
- Fossil word (category Lists of English words)in current use coign, as in "coign of vantage" deserts, as in "just deserts", although singular "desert" in the sense of "state of deserving" occurs...7 KB (730 words) - 06:31, 18 May 2024
Western house martin (category Birds of Europe)heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle; Where...33 KB (3,759 words) - 17:51, 3 May 2024- field of different colored blocks until the blocks are aligned such that they form a picture. The game is similar to the Flash game Coign of Vantage. Android...2 KB (164 words) - 20:55, 12 January 2023
- Padma Hejmadi (category Year of birth missing (living people))Padma Perera Coigns of Vantage. Calcutta: Writer's Workshop, 1972. The Challenge of Indian Fiction in English. Albany, NY: University of Delhi and the...3 KB (279 words) - 10:20, 5 July 2023
Luckenbooths (category History of Edinburgh)proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlet did in Macbeth's Castle. Of later years these booths have degenerated into...13 KB (1,653 words) - 18:20, 19 February 2024
stands. The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted."...32 KB (4,191 words) - 15:51, 18 December 2023
two tiers of boxes, a capacious pit, stalls, private boxes, and a spacious gallery, from which latter “coign of vantage” an excellent view of the stage...4 KB (331 words) - 10:34, 22 November 2023- 1895 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing) John Cassidy – Statue of Edward Colston (Bristol)...10 KB (850 words) - 10:32, 18 February 2024
(1900) Memoirs of Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1909) Reminiscences of Mary S. Rice (1908) Platters and Pipkins’ (1908) The Coign of Vantage (1909) She also...6 KB (604 words) - 14:08, 4 November 2023
Western Railway zone (category Zones of Indian Railways)Gujarat. The bases of columns and piers were of finely dressed Coorla(Kurla) stone and Kalyan brock and lime masonry for jams, piers and coigns. Chamfered and...22 KB (2,315 words) - 09:05, 24 April 2024- the sides were clinker-built.: 225–227 coign A wedge used to assist in the aiming of a cannon; an older form of "quoin". collier A bulk cargo ship designed...306 KB (38,471 words) - 11:10, 13 May 2024
- coigne of vantage coign of vantage (plural coigns of vantage) a good position for observation, judgment, criticism, action, etc. 1818, Walter Scott, The
- used for the external angle of a building (see Quoins), and “coign,” also a projecting angle, survives in the Shakespearean phrase “a coign of vantage.”
- heaven's breath Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made its pendent bed, and procreant cradle: Where
- consists of two turrets of solid masonry built upon a mound of earth. The second turret is approached by a flight of steps and from that coign of vantage the