We knew what those dogs were like, an' refused pointblank to go a peg unless he could think up a good enough excuse for us to give to Ty Jones--and we wouldn't let Horace go down alone.
A man in blue, whose horse had been shot from under him, fired his revolver pointblank at Stuart.
He put to Brown the pointblank question and demanded a straight answer.
They poured into the oncoming masses as much as 175 rounds at pointblank range.
I guessed it; though I could not be absolutely certain till yesterday morning, when Mr. Benson refused to answer my pointblank question.
Nancy was quite beside herself with agony, or she would never have snatched up the gun and held it pointblank at his back.
The real shock of Benson's guarded statement lay in Nancy's pointblank question.
Up he snatched the rifle again, and with a pointblank volley flung three of the grays writhing and yelling all in the mud and weeds and trampled cattails on the river verge.
Kneeling there, up he snatched the revolver, and in a deadly fire he poured out the last spitting shots, pointblank in the faces of the crowding rabble.
He pitched forward a revolver and fired pointblank at Frank.
He refused pointblank to do any business whatever with me.
Even before the jagged lead caught her face, ripping it from brow to chin, she drew her revolver and fired pointblank at him, missed him, and fell, as he spurred his horse on to her and struck again and again with his terrible whip.
That, I was determined, I would never mention to any living soul; determined also to deny it pointblank if any one should suggest it to me.
While Erwin had done little or no damage, probably owing to distance, Blaine's discharge was pointblank and deadly.
Having fired that shot pointblank at his client, the wise lawyer waited a little to let it take its effect before he said any more.
They were immersed in the interesting subject of their own Christian names, and Allan was as near a pointblank proposal of marriage as it is well possible for a thoughtless young gentleman of two-and-twenty to be.
Likewise, the Treasury portfolio was as a thirteen-inch gun within pointblank range of the stock market.
Educated those years abroad, he felt the want of an American knowledge, and started in to study government atpointblank range.
So they were withdrawn to other redoubts in the rear, where a line of automatics placed under their rifles were in pointblank range of their old position which the Grays' shells would tear to pieces.
Two of the guns of the castle batteries, having changed their position, were making havoc enough at pointblank range, with a choice of targets between the Grays huddled on the other side of the breastwork and those in retreat.
The Union force would now ask nothing better than that the enemy should charge down that road within pointblank range.
The hill and plateau must be crossed under a pointblank fire, in order to reach the enemy, and that, too, by men who had been under arms since midnight, and the majority wearied by a long march under a blazing sun.
During all this fatal delay the Confederate regiment was approaching, marching by the flank, and so passed at one time within pointblank range of the guns that would scarcely have left a man upon his feet.
Told me pointblank he wouldn't spend a cent till he had to.
Yes, she had taken him by surprise, and for that reason the conversation which began was not exactly as he would have conducted it if he had been prepared for her pointblank question.
Then this accomplished person fixed his eyes on Fanny Dover, and sung her an Italian love song in the artificial passionate style of that nation; and the English girl received it pointblank with complacent composure.
This was too pointblank for Zoe; she blushed crimson, and said archly, "I think it is time for me to run.
Even Fanny winced at the pointblank denunciation of a young man, who was himself polite to everybody.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pointblank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
