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Sentences starting with point

Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser-in fees, expenses, and waste of time. [7]
Point her for the bar. [5]
Point No. [5]
Point argued. [5]

Sentences ending with point

I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the point. [2]
Whether right or wrong, her feeling was strong on this point. [14]
She herself, in writing her books, was solicitous on this point. [14]
I supposed that would convey the fact that he was not living, but I see you do not quickly grasp a point. [11]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
My taste goes with yours and Meta's completely on this point. [14]
He hesitated--like one who isn't quite sure--then conceded the point. [5]
They never know what to do with their money, but they find out that people buy pictures, at one point. [8]
I've told you what I want, and now that I've got to go in a few minutes, I'll come to the point. [9]

Short sentences using point

So that point was settled. [5]
But that isn't the point. [8]
But that's not the point. [2]
Plain and to the point! [13]
I've carried my point. [12]
There's the vital point. [11]
There was the point. [11]
That isn't the point. [11]
Ay, there's the point. [11]
Intelligence isn't the point, either. [9]

Sentences containing point two or more times

Always, when he was not on the point of crying over a holy place, he was on the point of killing an Arab. [5]
They have also that other misery of packing and unpacking trunks--of running the distressing gauntlet of custom-houses--of the anxieties attendant upon getting a mass of baggage from point to point on land in safety. [5]
We needed no one to point it out--we did not wish any one to point it out--we would recognize it even in the desert of the great Sahara. [5]
At the hazard of wearing this point threadbare, I will relate an anecdote which seems too strikingly in point to be omitted. [7]
The stranger whom Jim and Sally had seen riding across the plains had brought the news for thirty miles, word of the murder having been carried from point to point. [11]
But the point is" and here he cocked his nose--"the point is, where is he? [9]
We have not, however, as yet considered the main point, on which, from our present point of view, the whole question of the moral sense turns. [1]
He had lately borne a letter from the Commandant, which permitted him to go from point to point outside the peninsula of Ducos, where the least punished of the political prisoners were kept. [11]
When the crowd at last halted, he flitted feverishly from point to point around its outer rim, hunting a place to get through; and at last, after a deal of difficulty and delay, succeeded. [5]

More example sentences with the word point in them

I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
All right,--said the young fellow.--I would n't be hard on the poor little-- The word he used was objectionable in point of significance and of grammar. [6]
Promise me that you'll never yield the least point to him in a matter of right and wrong! [8]
P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
That's a point you want to watch for. [5]
I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. [7]
When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
But twice every year he went to yonder point and spoke out the King's words to him: 'John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York? [11]
Have I done wrong in leading the Celebrity to the point where you saw him this morning? [9]
I wish you would tell him from me that when I am governor, I shall make it a point to discuss the whole matter with him, and that he will find in me no foe of corporations. [9]
Her stand- point would still, in the end, be the stand-point of a woman. [11]
But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
For in whatever world I may find myself, I hope I shall always love our poor little spheroid, so long my home, which some kind angel may point out to me as a gilded globule swimming in the sunlight far away. [6]
Scornful and mocking words were being uttered by the king; Neithotep looked exultant.--In these visions Nebenchari was so lost, that one of the Persian doctors was obliged to point out to him that his patient was awake. [10]
C. E. S. Wood at West Point --an edition of 50 copies--and distributed among popes and kings and such people. [5]
With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel's thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do. [2]
They were fellow-creatures with whom one did not naturally enter into active sympathy, and the principal point of interest about the fiacre and its arrangements was whether the horse was fondest of trotting or of walking. [6]
The King conversed with these --he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered --and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
The Emperor sees with regret that the picked soldiers appointed to guard his person, who should set an example of discipline, carry disobedience to such a point that they break into the cellars and stores containing army supplies. [2]
Over the anvil, with a small bar caught in a pair of tongs, hovered Madelinette Lajeunesse, beating, almost tenderly, the red-hot point of the steel. [11]
However, that American will point you right, and you'll go. [5]
But if he will not point out anything erroneous in the evidence, is it not rather for him to show, by a comparison of the evidence, that I have reasoned falsely, than to call the "kind, amiable, intelligent gentleman" a liar? [7]
I think you will find the bills and my comments on them well worth your consideration from the point of view of advantage to your railroad. [9]
In it you will find a brief argument in favor of conventions--and although I wrote it myself I will say to you that it is conclusive upon the point and can not be reasonably answered. [7]
I reckon it will bring the old man to the point when I come to talk with him about who's to be put in Coonrod's place. [8]
I cannot explain why I feel that you have in you elements of growth which will eventually bring you more into sympathy with the point of view I have set forth, but I do feel it. [9]
Kilby sang the whole song over to himself until he reached a point overlooking the valley. [11]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
The dissenting minister who argued some theological point with one of the established church was always met with the reply, "I can't see it so. [7]
One night the whispers said, "We'll never manage, because we can't see him, and so can't point him out to the people. [5]
He studied a while, then he just went into the Details --walked round and round the hole and spied into it from every point of the compass. [5]
The point upon which, they wanted instruction was this. [5]
The great crowd which the "Fremersberg" had called out was another evidence that it was low-grade music; for only the few are educated up to a point where high-grade music gives pleasure. [5]
Adams's administration, at which point he considers the executive influence as withdrawn from opposition, and added to the support of the power. [7]
The last point which need be noticed is that fishes are known to make various noises, some of which are described as being musical. [1]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
At the point where we entered is a farmhouse. [4]
At a point where they must lose sight of him, they looked for the last time. [11]
At another point where they had a long view behind they looked back. [11]
The only point where the mind and meaning of the man worked according to the law of his life was at the eye, where the monocle was caught now as in a vise. [11]
To admit this, whenever it happened, was a point of honour. [10]
They were shocked when they heard him cap an argument upon grave affairs of state with a story about "a man out in Sangamon County,"--a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lacking in dignity. [7]
At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
The man who, when drunk, beat his wife till the blood came, and committed plenty of cruel deeds, trembled, wept, and could even pray with fervent piety, when--which often happened--the frail little creature, shaken by convulsions, seemed at the point of death. [10]
Four years at West Point, and plenty of books and schooling, will learn a man a good deal, I reckon, but it won't learn him the river. [5]
The privately printed West Point edition, the first printing of the text authorized by Mark Twain, of which but fifty copies were printed. [5]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
Yesterday these two were strangers--to-day it was plain to be seen they were lovers, and lovers who had reached a point of confidence and revelation. [11]
Therefore, if one were holding strictly to the year date, neither by age nor by fame would Beaumont have been eligible to attend such a gathering of august personages in the year 1601; but the point is unimportant. [5]
But her eyes were firmly fixed upon a point far beyond their vision. [9]
When the cards were dealt, with but one point for either to gain, and so win and save his life, there was a slight pause before the two took them up. [11]
One day he went searching for Kitty at her favourite retreat, a little knoll behind and to the left of the house, where a half-dozen trees made a pleasant resting-place at a fine look-out point. [11]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
On the following Wednesday, with her flag flying and her sails set, the Peggy Stewart was run ashore on Windmill Point. [9]
This was the weak point in the armor which she wore so bravely for her cousin. [9]
But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
By and by we took boat and went ashore at Kailua, designing to ride horseback through the pleasant orange and coffee region of Kona, and rejoin the vessel at a point some leagues distant. [5]
On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: "To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves. [7]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
At this point we observed that an English flag had just been placed at half-mast on a building a hundred yards away. [5]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
On this point we have but to read the testimony of English writers themselves. [4]
At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
On this point we fully agree with the Judge, and when he shall show that his policy is better adapted to prevent amalgamation than ours, we shall drop ours and adopt his. [7]
But even if we fail to technically restore the compromise, it is still a great point to carry a popular vote in favor of the restoration. [7]
They point the way; and when we emerge from the wood, St. Maria a Castello is before us on a height, its white and red church shining in the sun. [4]
This is the way the conversation between the Doctor of Divinity and the Doctor of Medicine was going on at the point where these notes take it up. [6]
You wouldn't have wasted space on it if it hadn't had point. [5]
Never mind what was the matter with it; perhaps a very small change at the right point would have turned it into a fine success. [5]
The awful point was that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling hands, the unnerved limbs, the fading eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health. [14]
The main point was that the village was waked up. [6]
To this John was sometimes prefixed, as betokening from the purely animal point of view a certain resemblance to the imputed grimness and earnestness of the great reformer. [4]
What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]
There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
To this I was only able to reply that on one point at least she must change her mind, for that I knew for certain that old grand-dame Pernhart loved her truly. [10]
One night I was on the point of relating some dismal ghost story, just before bed-time. [14]
The day, which was not yet aged, had been satisfactory from every point of view. [11]
Mrs. Flynn's cooking was not her only good point. [11]
The entrance there was less dangerous than that between the Pharos and the point of Lochias which led into the eastern landing-places. [10]
Yes, probably he was insane from her point of view. [9]
An insatiable curiosity was his strongest point, save one. [11]
But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn't any to see. [5]
One long foot was crossed over the other and rested on the point of the toe, and his head was tilted to one side. [9]
The planet Mars was burning like a red coal; the northern constellation was slanting downward about its central point of flame; and while he looked, a falling star slid from the zenith and was lost. [6]
Besides, if there was any catastrophe, any trouble, coming, or possible, that might hasten it, or, at least, give it point. [11]
As General Wolfe was about to enter the boat which was to convey him to the flag-ship, he saw McGilveray, who was waiting under guard to be taken to Major Hardy's post at Point Levis. [11]
The Public Library was a central point which brought people together. [6]
How the grim warriors of the past seem flocking in ghostly squadrons to their ancient battlefield again--how the wails of the dying well up from the--" At this point the horse called Oahu sat down in the sand. [5]
His eyes often wandered to a certain desk, and once he had found strength to lift his emaciated arm and point to it. [6]
Four times he walked me up the road to a point whence we could see a long distance; and there he would stand, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking. [5]
The point of view, however, was consoling. [9]
Her point of view, eminently sensible as it was, exasperated me. [9]
Their point of view was singularly unchanged, and their impressions of New York remained the same that they had been fifteen years before: huge, noisy, ugly, kindly, it seemed to them now as it seemed then. [8]
The point of view of other people is naturally not a matter of weighty importance to her. [5]

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