But spite of all rivals, it maintains first rank, and although it cannot cope with Loch Lomond or Loch Maree in point of size, neither of those great lochs command the same admiration.
Next to the island, the pointof attraction is the 'silver strand,' from whence one of the many fine views of Ben Venne may be had.
As it is, the records of the town pointto terrible devastations from the Ness coming down in strength.
The 'gallant grey' has fallen,--the guides still point out the very spot!
The arc of his social rise intersected the arc of his friend's decline, but Mr. Kernan's decline was mitigated by the fact that certain of those friends who had known him at his highest point of success still esteemed him as a character.
If their accounts tallied in every point to say: "Well, I have verified my accounts.
The mechanic and the two work-girls examined him point by point before resuming their conversation in a subdued voice.
At this point there was a knock at the door, and a boy put in his head.
We were serious to the pointof solemnity, but once during the short voyage our eyes met and we laughed.
But Mr. Kearney continued to stroke his beard and Kathleen looked down, moving the point of her new shoe: it was not her fault.
While the point was being debated a tall agile gentleman of fair complexion, wearing a long yellow ulster, came from the far end of the bar.
An intimation of the result pricked him like the point of a sharp instrument.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, who did not catch the point at issue very quickly, seemed unable to resolve the difficulty and said that he would bring the matter before the committee.
His attitude on this point struck me as strangely liberal in a man of his age.
I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her.
His temperament might be said to be just at the point of maturity.
He walked up and down constantly, stood by the hour at street corners arguing the point and made notes; but in the end it was Mrs. Kearney who arranged everything.
At this point the rope is attached, by which the dredge is dragged from either a sail or power boat.
On the flats just south of Inward Point was another bed of scallops.
The Commissioners on Fisheries and Game can only point the way of reform; the result lies in the hands of the intelligent voters of this Commonwealth, whose action decides the future success or failure of the shellfisheries.
The region closed by this law lies to the west of an imaginary line running from Point Shirley through Deer Island to the northeastern end of Peddocks Island; thence in a southwesterly direction to the extreme point of Hough's Neck.
On the opposite side of the harbor lies a strip of quahaug territory of 250 acres, which extends between Third Point and Bass Point.
From that date the quahaug fishery has waned almost to the point of extinction, but no efforts have been made to resurrect the old oyster industry, which has practically disappeared.
Unless the decline is at once checked, within a very few years our valuable shellfisheries will be exhausted to the point of commercial extinction.
For the first time this problem of the Massachusetts shellfisheries has been approached from the point of view of the economic biologist.
A projecting sand bar orpoint with a current is also well adapted for catching oyster spat.
From each corner of the framework iron rods extend, converging at a point some feet away.
In the bend north of Inward Point scallops were plentiful.
He made that a point of honour; and the consequence was that at last he had to come to me.
All the time her consciousness was like a single intense point of light in the middle of a darkness it could do nothing to illuminate.
But I will come to the point practically: a man, I say, who does not feel in his soul that he has something to tell his people, should straightway turn his energy to the providing of such food for them as he finds feed himself.
Till then, this point remains: there was a man who said he knew him, and that if you would give heed to him, you too should know him.
And now the point was--WHY could he not say he believed them?
For he was confident that the curate, in the temper which was now his, must ere long come immediately upon the truth towards which he was tempted to point him.
Upon this point a volume might be written, but a few plain facts must suffice.
The enemy's Admiral had signalled to the ships astern of him to follow his motions together, as nearly as possible to concentrate their guns at point blank, right ahead, and to pour their shot on the instant of passing our ships.
Here there were three miles of deep water safe from sea attack, with an arsenal and dockyard, on the very weakest point along the line of our highway between England and India!
The manner in which they had manoeuvred to pass Spurn Point and ascend the river was remarkable, and astounded the officers in the forts at Paull.
Lloyd's signal station on Spurn Point has also intimated that hostile ships coming from the south are lying-to just beyond the Lightship.
Minute after minute went by, but not a word was spoken, for every eye was turned upon the crest of a certain ridge nearly three miles away, at a point where the country was well wooded.
It must be admitted that, from a strategical point of view, the taking of Stretford would mean the fall of Manchester, a fact which the Russian commanding officer had not overlooked.
From a strategic point of view the positions of both forces were carefully chosen.
How do you suppose that a man who is on the point of committing murder is going to stand there for sixteen seconds, without drawing his breath?
She spoke, spat, smoothed the saliva with the point of her shoe, looking Pulpete and Balbeja full in the face, and went out with the same expressive movements with which she entered.
He disclaimed all sympathy with that sectional spirit which has sometimes lauded a work merely for geographical reasons; and in the critical reviews of his magazine he did not hesitate to point out and censure crudeness in Southern writers.
I am truly much less anxious about making a monthly 'sensation' than I am upon the point of fairness.
Every vantage point is occupied, and trains arriving slowly on the railway bridge deposit their freights and withdraw every few minutes.
In great crises, the physical powers are attacked at the point where the individual temperament has placed the vital spark.
She had reached the point of no longer perceiving the difference between the left leg and the right leg of her lover, and was even capable of saying, in all sincerity, "Does he limp?
The worthy man, led on by false hopes, allowed Adolphe Keller to sound and fathom him, and he stood revealed to the banker's eyes as a royalist jackass on the point of failure.
Cesar Birotteau, who might with reason think himself at the apogee of his fortunes, used this crucial pause as the point of a new departure.
In point of fact, this Paste and this Lotion possess amazing properties which act upon the skin without prematurely wrinkling it,--the inevitable result of drugs thoughtlessly employed, and sold in these days by ignorance and cupidity.
I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, thanks to your relation, little Bianchon the medical student; he told me that at school his comrades used nut oil to promote the growth of their whiskers and mustachios.
The upshot of all this is, that in point of fact the debtor appoints his assignees, audits his own accounts, and draws up the certificate of bankruptcy himself.
On this point the law is precise, formal, and not to be evaded.
The stairway should therefore be imposing in character; and, in point of act, it is neither dwarfed nor crushed by the architectural splendors on either side of it.
It was known afterwards that he had been helped in this work by Jules Desmarets and Joseph Lebas, both of whom were eager to point out opportunities which Pillerault might take without risk.
Now he could aim at a pointbetween the eye and the ear.
The wooded point to the north was strangely familiar.
In five minutes he had wormed his way to the great tree that overhung the palisade at one end of the village, and from his point of vantage looked down upon the savage horde beneath.
Each has a police record, and while there is nothing charged against them now, we make it a point to know pretty well where they may be found should the occasion demand.
Striking the forest's edge about a quarter of a mile from the point at which the slender column arose into the still air, he took to the trees.
Slowly the point of the arrow drooped; the scar upon the brown forehead faded; the bowstring relaxed; and Tarzan of the Apes, with bowed head, turned sadly into the jungle toward the village of the Waziri.
The wall at this point was constructed entirely, it seemed, of these almost perfect slabs.
They were standing on deck at a point which was temporarily deserted, and as Tarzan came upon them they were in heated argument with a woman.
Miss Strong was mildly curious, for Mr. Caldwell had always made it a point to wait that he might breakfast with her and her mother.
Selecting his most formidable antagonist, the fellow with the bludgeon, Tarzan charged full upon him, dodging the falling weapon, and catching the man a terrific blow on the point of the chin that felled him in his tracks.
Everything will point to--to what Rokoff wishes the count to think.
Under two birds, as r r, are two Houses on a point of land leading from Farm Cove, the next cove to the eastward of Sydney.
I shall, however, without farther digression, endeavour to point out other means of improving the settlement than such as relate to its agriculture.
The River round the pointleads to several agricultural and farming districts, and to Parramatta.
Yet in spite of the risk, it must be said plainly that at this point Denry actually thought of marriage.
When he was sixteen his mother, by operations on a yard and a half of Brussels point lace, put Mrs. Emery under an obligation.
The real point and delight of that Corporation Sunday was not fully appreciated till later.
The sleigh arrived at the point first, but only by a trifle.
Another detail: the secession of nine or ten people from one hotel to the other meant that the Metropole would decidedly be more populous than the Beau-Site, and on the point of numbers the emulation was very keen.
Useless for solemn experts to point out that he had simply been larking for the gallery, and that the result was a shocking fluke--Callear's reputation was established.
At this point he began to work himself up into the state of "not caring," into the state of despising Sneyd Hall and everything for which it stood.
The sons of the wealthiest earthenware manufacturers made a point of belonging to it, and, after a period of disdain, their fathers also made a point of belonging to it.
Denry nevertheless did score one point over Mrs. Clutterbuck's fussy cousin.
He succeeded in convincing them on everypoint except that of his own financial stability.
From the point of view of the newspaperman the Frenchman is the ideal soldier of the world.
The point of his bayonet flashed into the cloth knob again and again.
We always pointthe guns toward Germany even in practice if we can," said a French instructing officer, "it's just as well to start right.
At one point it was possible to see a French captive balloon floating just beyond the hilltops, but we could not hear the guns yet.
It was better fun, though, to stand behind these big howitzers, for by fixing your eye on a point well up over the horizon it was possible to see the projectile in flight.
Some observers think the West Point attitude too strict, but I was inclined to believe that the men from the academy handled men better than the reserve officers.
We first came upon them when we saw a tall, stringy man looking out of the window of a little locomotive which pulled a train up to a point at the French front.
The old man led us up the aisle to a point not far from the altar.
The doctors made a point of getting around and talking to the patients to cheer them up.
It was a clear day, without a breath of wind, and the white puffs clung to the sky at the pointwhere they broke.
But the point from which we looked across to the German line was the very salient where the Germans made their first raid a week later and captured twelve men, killed three, and wounded five.
However, the Germans play up their star airmen in the newspapers and on the moving picture screen and it must be admitted that they have not made many mistakes from a purely military point of view.
The only thing to which I could point with pride was the fact that before putting on my lifebelt I paused to open a box of candy, and went on deck to face destruction, or what not, with a caramel between my teeth.
Fichte sketched the stages already traversed on this road and located the point at which mankind now stands.
From this point on, idealization of past Germanic history and appeal to the nation to realize its unique calling by victory over Napoleon blend.
At this pointthe pantheistic allusion becomes significant.
In point of fact, the Germans never made that break with tradition, political or religious, of which the French Revolution is an emphatic symbol.
Before leaving this theme, I must point out one aspect of the work of reason thus far passed over.
Later he might write upon the campaign in which this event took place and point out, upon intellectual grounds, the mistake involved in the order.
So I held to the rock with my right hand, and prodded at the snow with the point of my stick until a good step was made, and then, leaning round the angle, did the same for the other side.
From the rounding point we perceive the Finland Gulf, Cronstadt, and Peterhoff, and all the points which we passed on our route hither.
The reverberation was fearfully deep, rolling and swelling from point to point, till lost in the labyrinth of shafts and crevices far in the distance.
The river flows into the Rhone near this point with a volume almost as great as the Rhone itself.
There is one lovely spot where, at the middle point of a rotunda, a large statue of Hercules stands finely out against a background of dark foliage.
Within half an hour we are en route for the Gorner Grat, a rocky point which still lay eighteen feet above us, and which we attained after an easy walk of an hour and a half.
Again, looking at it from Mr. Cloyster's pointof view, what good would it be to him if I were to stop writing?
The main point I aimed at was not to damp his spirits.
He lit it again, and spoke through the smoke: "The weak point of your idea, of course, is that you and George Chandos are a single individual.
Her hair's done low: she used to make rather a point of telling me that.
Once more my spirits fell to the point where they had been before I hit upon what I thought was such a bright scheme.
Apparently Stickney was on the point of advertising largely with the Orb, and had backed out in a huff.
The outward-bound boat was on the point of starting for England.
I have mentioned at this point the love of my old friends who made my first years in London a period of happiness, since it was in this month of April that I had a momentous conversation with Julian about Margaret.
In pointof fact, save for a most conventional butcher-boy, I was alone in the street.
At this point embarrassment seemed to engulf James.
Had the meteorological conditions been adverse to the point of malignancy, I should have closed with her terms.
At this point Alf Joblin detached himself from the hovering crowd and said to Price: "He must be cowed.
There was a piquant admixture of love, religion, and Eastern scenery which seemed to point to a record number of editions.
His life was magnificent and important, filled to bursting point with a splendid usefulness and with a tendency to fill the lives of every one who came within his reach to their several bursting points, too.
He stared at her as one who feels about for some point of contact with an alien intelligence.
She hovered uncertainly round the edges of life, fingering them, trying to feel the point where she could best catch hold and climb into its fulness again.
At this point he began to be able to say "Poor girl," and to feel that he pitied her.
One only needed, he repeated, warm with the wish to keep in roomy regions, to trace back any two opinions, however bitterly different they now were, far enough to get at last to the point where they sweetly kissed.
He might, under provocation, point out her weaknesses, but she must not pointthem out to him.
Picture postcards seemed to have a dreadful fascination for her; and as for Ingram, the mere sight of them at this point of their journey made him see red.
You talk like a madman," they cried; but the man stuck to his pointthat he had been dead and buried some months.
If you really want to know what your failings are, you can find some one who can point them out.
He glanced back at his house and garden, envisaging them for the first time, as it were, from her pointof view.
Brandy is exactly what she was screwing her courage to the pointof asking for.
His British inability to put himself in another person's place, to see things from another's point of view!
She is arguing thepoint for its abstract interest.
Could n't he see, from her point of view, from anypoint of view but his own, that it was her right to be told?
The point of frank interrogation in her eyes showed clearly, showed cruelly, how detached, how impersonal, her interest was.
Oh, I think it is even more extraordinary from the woman's point of view than from the man's.
But he could not bring himself to share her point of view.
Peter was on the point of calling to him, of remonstrating.
The point is that I should be a good judge of hats.
I am thinking of it from the woman's point of view," she said, by and by.
It had been entirely neglected, from the literary point of view, during the eighteenth century, and suffered now from the natural reaction which followed the 1830 Revolution.
It is an abrupt literature, but spontaneous and sincere, which has not been spoilt by formalism and scepticism, but which has not acquired, from a purely technical pointof view, the perfection of the French.
From that point of view, Belgium may indeed be considered as the embodiment of steadfastness, rather than that of sheer heroism.
The date is important, for it marks a turning-point in the mediæval history of Belgium.
From a purely historicalpoint of view, the general trend of inspiration is certainly towards the North rather than towards the South.
Nothing better could have happened from the point of view of the patriots, and the differences which had begun to undermine the work of the Pacification of Ghent, during the last months, were promptly forgotten.
Even from a purely historical point of view the idea of reconstituting the Burgundian Netherlands must have appealed to those who had preserved the memory of their former grandeur.
From a literarypoint of view, they are greatly inferior to their predecessors and often lapse into rhetorical eloquence.
On the road from the tower to the farm of Coat-Dor is the Point of Hinnic, where the grass is salt, which makes the cows and rams very fierce while they are grazing.
He always placed himself in front of the bigger dog, and made a point of hustling him in door-ways and of going first down stairs.
He had often to point out a similar disparity in the lives of other writers, because this was his one way of accounting for his want of success.
There you will charter a waggon, and have the treasure delivered at the point where the Tuba trail from Flagstaff crosses the Little Colorado River, right in the middle of the Painted Desert.
Then the night operator--which his name was Bowles--turned round topoint back for his office, and suddenly trod on a preacher.
I must pointto good meat, or he ain't hungry none.
Speaking generally, a whole lot of silence was being procured, and from a robber point of view things worked harmonious until the first bunch of riders went thundering away into the desert.
Is it conceivable that after all Jonson was ridiculing Marston, and that the point of the satire consisted in an intentional confusion of "the grand scourge or second untruss" with "the scurrilous and profane" Chester?
He climbed far up the mountainside and hid among the pines and slept, but when day came he awoke and crept out to a point where he could see the camp.
It was a beautiful arrow, the stone point long, slender, and sharp, the shaft round and straight.
Point this at him and he will be afraid and start back; but if that should fail, take this arrow.
The girl hid her face in her robe and brushed the ground with the point of her moccasin, back and forth, back and forth, for she was thinking.
A notch was cut in the end of the arrow shaft and the shank of the arrow point set in that.
His starting-point was mankind in the brute stage.
We may therefore briefly discuss at this pointthe meaning of the class names.
Looking at the population from the territorial point of view in the first place, we find aggregates of tribes; these may be termed nations.
The north-west area of male descent is virtually one from the point of view of class names; two other areas are very large, six are of medium size, three are small, and the remaining one is probably medium.
On this point therefore the probabilities are wholly on the side of development as against reformation.
In the other three cases the facts seem to point to a change in the intertribal relationships in the period intervening between the adoption of phratry names and the introduction of the class system.
The important point about the class, as distinguished from the phratry systems, is the great extent covered by the former.
Dr Westermarck has defined it from the point of view of natural history as a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of the offspring.
Not that there is any one college, whether at Oxford or at Cambridge, which in point of architectural magnificence, can vie with some of those which I am about to describe.
There are copies of these hieroglyphics, taken from a copper plate; but the solution of them, like most of those from Egypt, will always be perhaps a point of dispute with the learned.
I paced the library in various directions; and found, at every turn or fresh point of view, a new subject of surprise and admiration.
The next morning I visited the Comte Drechsel--having first written him a note, and gently touched upon the point at issue.
This was the very point to which I was so anxious to bring the conference.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "point" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
