Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
He imagined the boy sitting up there at some coign of vantage on the bluff, admonishing, advising him dryly, while he laughed in his sleeve.
I studied her face minutely from our coign of vantage.
Before you have discouraged her, you may have to shunt her off of every plate or other "coign of vantage" with boards or shingles.
The prodigy had edged away from his seat to a coign of vantage.
From this rare coign of vantage one could witness soul-gripping dramas of human history, the happenings of years being compressed within the limits of days.
There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier.
Through its dusky green light he moved cautiously forward to a coign of vantage.