How To Use Coign In A Sentence
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The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand.
Finnegans Wake
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Where are you going, Rex?" said Anna one gray morning when her father had set off in his carriage to the sessions, Mrs. Gascoigne with him, and she had observed that her brother had on his antigropelos, the utmost approach he possessed to a hunting equipment.
Daniel Deronda
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There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country.
Girls and Women
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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England soccer star Paul Gascoigne was signed up by a top Italian club.
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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
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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This time we are no longer brought into touch with the classics or with the scholastic influences, for the play in question is a translation from the Italian, being in fact Ariosto's _Suppositi_, englished by George Gascoigne [109].
John Lyly
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A voice hails through a bullhorn: `Gascoign, I know you can hear me.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Down in the River Findhorn valley, below the wind farm site, the wife of the head gamekeeper on the Coignafearn estate, welcomes the campaign of resistance.
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The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this "coigne of vantage," and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
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The king when he was lodged in his pauilion, sent to the man a Persian robe, a Cuppe of Golde, and a thousande Darices, (which was a coigne amonges the Persians, wherupon was the Image of Darius) willinge the messenger to saye vnto him, these wordes.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’
Quentin Durward
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Gascoigne's tale became, as we know too well, a tragedy and the same dark thread ran through the life of Hughie Gallacher, whose scoring feats helped Newcastle United to a championship, which is more than a host of subsequent superstars at St James 'Park could claim, as his son, also called Hughie, likes to point out.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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He sent me to the dictionary several times for carr, scroll pond, procrypsis, coign, spates and zugunruhe.
Meeyauw
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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
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The forms are varied, and pseudocubic crystals with complexly formed coigns have been found here; twinning has been observed.
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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
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Former football legend and renowned boozehound Paul Gascoigne has revealed that he is now an undead zombie walking the land, following repeated deaths while in rehab for his alcohol problems.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Coignet’s gold label gelatine, mixed with a more soluble product, such as Cox’s gelatine, for example, gives also excellent results.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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Hopeless as was the attempt to catch the bird, the joy of frightening it was sure; and our guide sprang wildly from side to side of the building, uttering exciting exclamations, and making vain passes at the little creature, which flew round high above her head, now and then settling in some secure "coigne of vantage.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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Gascoigne almost scored in the opening minute.
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The couple dined in a £1,000-a-night suite at the Malmaison Hotel in Manchester, were waited on by a personal butler and Gascoigne showered Sheryl with gifts.
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In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it appeared
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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The weakening of the aristocracy by war and by execution gave to the crown a power before unknown, and made it a fearful coigne of vantage for
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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Our silesian ‘buff’ Sandstone is used for paving, walling, facing stones, coigns, flagstones, rockery stones, walling and crazy paving.
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Ho Saint Siobe, cap de Gascoigne, ta pla dormy jou, quand aquoest taquain me bingut estee.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In 1545, Dr. Browne writes: "Here reigneth insatiable ambition; here reigneth continually coigne and livery, and callid extortion.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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The tournament proved to be Gascoigne's finest hour.
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The "head of the corner" (Ps. 118: 22, 23) denotes the coping, the "coign of vantage", i.e., the topstone of a building.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Gascoigne almost scored in the opening minute.
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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
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There is a rough and ready quality to the portraits, which often feature a swathe of canvas carelessly draped, by leading Swiss photographer Christian Coigny.
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In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it appeared
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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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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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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His admonition would dissolve in an unrestrained roar of laughter as she wickedly "shinned" up the porch post to a coign of vantage on the vine-covered roof.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
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Here in England, the country's finest young creative midfielder since Paul Scholes or Paul Gascoigne, Jack Wilshere, is being pitchforked back to a developmental level he has already passed through, purely so Stuart Pearce's Under-21s can look good at the junior European Championship which starts in Denmark on 11 June.
An overworked Jack Wilshere needs a break, not more games
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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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You're in his employ. what a coign of vantage!
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There is neither statue, nor a niche for a statue, to be seen on all the outside; no carved work, no spires, towers, pinnacles, balustrades, or anything; but mere walls, buttresses, windows, and coigns necessary to the support and order of the building.
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In addition to its great arks and ziggurats, Gambee seems to have missed few of Wall Street's more picturesque chinks, corners and coigns, and the reader is led to each through angles of vision which by most definitions known to me deserve the name of artistry.
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Yea, that thou maiest further, my (reader) learne to discerne, how men haue in these daies amended the rude simplicitie of the first worlde, from Adam to the floud and many yeres after, when men liued skateryng on the earthe, without knowlege of Money, or what coigne ment, or Merchauntes trade: no maner of exchaunge, but one good tourne for another.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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And who so clipped the coigne or countrefacted it, or chaunged the stampe or diminisshed the weighte: or in lettres and writinges, shoulde adde any thing, by entrelinyng, or otherwise: or should guelde out any thyng, or bryng a forged euidence, Obligacion or Bille, bothe his handes ware cutte of.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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And because it cannot be durable: ordre is taken, that when it is soiled or dusked muche, with passyng from man to man, thei shall bring it to the coignyng house, and make exchaunge for newe.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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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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And when, at last, our guides and servants, mounting to pinnacles and jutting points, and many a frieze and coigne of vantage, placed blue lights on them all, and at the word illuminated all together, there was redoubled bedlam in that abode of Hecate, and the eternal calm of the Boodh became awful.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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Nor again was it to introduce feudalism; for as I have shown, the system already in existence was feudalism without its advantages; the substitution of fixed dues for the barbarous custom of "coigne and livery" was an unmixed benefit to the occupiers of land.
Is Ulster Right?
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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
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Gascoigne returned to England in 1574 to a scandal and had to revise the edition, republishing it the following year as The Posies.
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Towards the close of the eighteenth century, short cast-iron guns called "carronades" were introduced by Gascoigne of the Cannon Iron
Marvels of Modern Science
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The Spurs chief is determined to beef up his midfield following the departures of Stewart and Paul Gascoigne.
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And presently we came upon the ruin of yet another gate that marked the entrance to what had once been a great and terrible city, and upon the coign of that tall archway was inscribed the name Kolibos.
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-- "Un golfe (gobb) est comme une encoignure et un détour que fait la mer en pénétrant dans le continens: les navires n'y sont pas sans péril particulièrement à l'égard du flux et reflux.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant.
Cinnamon Roll
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The statement may (with St. Peter keeping the gate) have been challenged in paradise, but in literature at all events the unhonored life of Jérome Coignard has clothed him with glory of tolerably longeval looking texture.
The Queen Pedauque
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Like the loose, readily wearable garment that he can slip into and out of with ease, Gascoigne thus advertises his facility with multiple professional identities.
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Il avait quitté son encoignure et se promenait par le café, parlant haut, le verre à la main.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
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The church is built of light red sandstone, the coigns being of dark basalt, and the style is Early English: it consists of a nave and chancel, north and south aisles, west porch, and a bell-tower.
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Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’
Quentin Durward
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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Only honest man among them is True Tobes Gascoign, yes sirree.
A MEANS TO EVIL
