...signs and portents and circumstances that hurtled--or which they perceived as hurtling--about their destinies, or lurked, observing them, from appropriate coigns of vantage.
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
10 months ago shoey said:More commonly the bricks on the corner of a building. Also see quoin.
...signs and portents and circumstances that hurtled--or which they perceived as hurtling--about their destinies, or lurked, observing them, from appropriate coigns of vantage.
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.
Joyce, Ulysses, 3