Crossword clues for coigne
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coigne \Coigne\ (koin), n. [See Coin, n.] A quoin.
See you yound coigne of the Capitol? yon corner stone?
--Shak.
Coigne \Coigne\, Coigny \Coign"y\, n.
The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a
tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. [Ireland]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. 1 quoin ((term: keystone)) 2 coign ((term: wedge)) 3 (context obsolete English) coign; corner; angle
WordNet
Usage examples of "coigne".
It had not been in her mind to run, but the fact that Coigne had thought she might made her wonder if she should have done so.
She heard the door of one of the communications cabinets that lined the first lobby close behind her, sealing Coigne into its gleaming interior, but did not look back.
If any shadow folk were involved, they still had more claim on her loyalty than Coigne did.
Cerise frowned more deeply, wondering exactly what Coigne wanted, and shook speculation away as pointless.
She had realized long ago that it annoyed Coigne to find her attractive, and she enjoyed the delicate game of provocation.
She recognized that tone all too well: Coigne meant every word, and would back them up, precisely and exactly, with all his considerable skill and resources.
It had taken her three hours to convince Coigne of that, though, and she grinned, savoring the victory.
That was different, Coigne was different, it might even help her to pass that information on to Ms.
To Blatherwick, who had very little sympathy with gladness of any sort, the sight only called up by contrast the very different scene on which his eyes would look down the next evening from the vantage coigne of the pulpit, in a church filled with an eminently respectable congregation--to which he would be setting forth the results of certain late geographical discoveries and local identifications, not knowing that already even later discoveries had rendered all he was about to say more than doubtful.
The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.
To Blatherwick, who had very little sympathy with gladness of any sort, the sight only called up by contrast the very different scene on which his eyes would look down the next evening from the vantage coigne of the pulpit, in a church filled with an eminently respectable congregation--to which he would be setting forth the results of certain late geographical discoveries and local identifications, not knowing that already even later discoveries had rendered all he was about to say more than doubtful.
The Georgian-style structure was large, gracefully proportioned, brick with a limestone cornice and limestone coignes, limestone window surrounds and Corinthian columns and pilasters and balustrades.