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I awaited the coming of the serow at various coigns of vantage where they said it was bound to pass, while the four men surrounded it from different directions.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

In addition, one finds the usual Lombard grotesques—two sea-monsters, biting each other; harpy-birds; a dragon with a twisted tail; little men grinning and squatting in adaptation to coigns and angles of the windows.

From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington

It was not long before the seats on the daïs were filled, while the tenants and guests of lesser importance had occupied all the coigns of vantage not reserved. 

From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram

In addition, one finds the 109 usual Lombard grotesques—two sea-monsters, biting each other; harpy-birds; a dragon with a twisted tail; little men grinning and squatting in adaptation to coigns and angles of the windows.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

The stones forming the right edge of the hole are coigns, and have mason-marks on their sides.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Hallett, Cecil Walter Charles