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What a view there is from coigne of vantage!

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various

Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

No jutty frieze,          Buttrice, nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird          Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle:          Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd,          The air is delicate.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

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 Henry VIII., whose accession was in 1509.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

What a view there is from this coigne of vantage!

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis