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Example sentences for "point about"

  • From another map in the same office it appears that the line as surveyed extended from a point about 1,000 yards above South West Point in a course S.

  • The line from Cloud's Creek pursued a northeasterly direction to Chimney Top Mountain, which it struck at a point about 2 miles to the southward of the Long Island of Holston River.

  • They encountered the left flank of the enemy supporting position at a point about 2,600 yards west of Patok.

  • The 1st Battalion encountered little opposition until it reached a point about 300 yards south of the crest of Breakneck Ridge, where the Japanese strongly resisted.

  • There was a point about 4000 yards due west from the edge of the West Town of Gaza which we called Sea Post.

  • Then on we climbed till ten o'clock, to a point about 9000 feet, where we stopped for lunch in a quiet mountain glen, by the side of a rippling mountain rill.

  • Starting from the base of the dome, it seemed to pierce the shifting clouds to a point about 500 feet from the summit.

  • In finding its way to the lowlands, it breaks frequently into falls and rapids, or winds violently through rocky gorges, until, at a point about 100 m.

  • In flood-time it is said to have a second connexion with the Rio Negro by a branch which it throws off to the westward called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about 50 m.

  • The front of attack extended from the sharp corner just south of the Knuckle on the right to a point about 150 yards north of the Hump on the left.

  • A Company pushed ahead and reached a point about 300 yards west of Adinfer Wood.

  • There is thus a certain symmetry in the damage to this line with respect to a point about 15 or 16 miles from the Charleston terminus.

  • This derrick was guyed at its top on the side away from the tower, and a set of blocks and tackle was then connected to the top of the derrick and to the tower at a point about one-fourth of the distance from its top.

  • Another pin taken from the same line as the three just considered was badly burned at a point about 1.

  • At a point about a mile or so from where we left the train, we reached one of our railroad block houses, held by a small garrison.

  • We emerged from the woods into the Columbia pike at a point about three-quarters of a mile in front of our main line of works that had been charged repeatedly and desperately by the Confederates in the late battle.

  • They moved slowly and cautiously away, and presently reached the edge of the swamp at a point about a half of a mile from the encampment of the British soldiers.

  • From a point about a mile southeast from Circleville to Braddock's Field there are no trustworthy scars of the road; but the topography of the country is such that the line between these two points can be readily determined.

  • This it follows in a northeasterly direction for a distance of some mile and a half, with a few noticeable deflections from the present township road, to a point about half a mile east of Valley Works.

  • Camp 35, situated on the right bank of a small well-watered creek at a point about half a mile above its junction with a larger creek from the north-west.

  • At sunset we anchored at a point about twenty-six miles in a straight line from the mouth of the river, where a river from the southward, which Mr. Woods called the Barkly, joins the Albert River.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allow myself; board their; counterfeit money; court martial; easily explained; expedition under; help themselves; heroic deeds; hundred million; mission schools; now known; point out; point where; pointed arch; pointed arches; pointed architecture; pointed beard; pointed stars; pointing finger; pointing hand; pointing upward; private property; strong holds; trout stream; wear them; well buttered