Using their points of vantage, the defending troops, numbering less than one battalion, fought back, routed the enemy and saved the base.
They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.
The crowd became denser every moment, and like water that overflows its boundaries, began to mount the walls, to surge round the pillars, to rise up and cover the cornices, the window-sills, every projection and every coign of vantage in architecture or sculpture.
You're in his employ. what a coign of vantage!
