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Example sentences for "pointed out"

  • I pointed out to him concisely, and keeping my eyes on the door of the hotel, that he and his wife were the only bond with the land Captain Anthony had.

  • He pointed out to her that she knew who he was.

  • In the kindliest language he pointed out to the secessionists how ill advised their attempt at disunion was, and why, for their own sakes, they should desist.

  • A few days after the fall of Richmond, he pointed out to a friend the crowd of office-seekers besieging his door.

  • Where a thing is not, it cannot be pointed out.

  • The error was not in the deed, and of course could not be pointed out there.

  • You can then donate the extra amount to a worthy cause," he pointed out.

  • My soul, he pointed out, loved to greet people.

  • One of the posters is already outdated," I pointed out.

  • It should here be pointed out that in order to be selected, a change must first have been produced.

  • There is no way out of the difficulty except the one Darwin pointed out.

  • He pointed out to Harlay that everybody was convinced of his leaning towards M.

  • He pointed out to the King that the speech of the Abbe de Caumartin had been revised and corrected by M.

  • I pointed out that to seize by force of arms a public and solemn document, in the midst of the capital, in despite of all--all law and order, would be to put weapons into the hands of the enemies of M.

  • But it should be pointed out at once that this is not an inevitable deduction from the evidence.

  • As he pointed out, they would be instances, not of genuine historical traditions, but of what Sir James Tyler calls "observation myths".

  • Crewe's matter is in the form of a despatch, and most of 'em pointed out at the top of the editorial columns that their papers are not responsible for despatches in the news columns.

  • And I pointed out that Mr. Perry Blackwood had been unable to manage the affairs of the Boyne Street road.

  • I pointed out to him that we were miles away from a pub.

  • I quite lost my temper with him at last, and I pointed out to him what a drivelling maniac of an imbecile idiot he was; but he only roared the louder.

  • There are a couple of cabs--down there," I pointed out at the other end of the block.

  • There she is, Billy," pointed out Dan as Elaine disappeared through the swinging doors of the shop.

  • You see, she has no recollection of my tying the bandage on her arm," I pointed out.

  • There it is," he pointed out, as I gave a groan of relief, for the telegraphone was getting like lead.

  • Fohty-nine, sah," he pointed out, as Kennedy dropped a dime into his ready palm.

  • I directed Gibson to go on with the horses to the foot of a hill which I pointed out to him, and to remain there until I overtook him.

  • About ten o'clock, after we had travelled thirteen or fourteen miles, Jimmy uttered an exclamation, pointed out something to us, and declared that it was Wynbring.

  • I pointed out to him the rebel works, admitted that my assault had failed, and he said the result with McPherson and McClernand was about the same.

  • I pointed out to General Morgan the place where he could pass the bayou, and he answered, "General, in ten minutes after you give the signal I'll be on those hills.

  • It cannot too often be pointed out that to strike with ignorant violence at the interests of one set of men almost inevitably endangers the interests of all.

  • In one of his messages to Congress he pointed out that a system of promotion by merit existed in the Military Academy at West Point.

  • He pointed out that, when it came to "a question of rubles," the Russian Government and the Russian people were firmly resolved not to yield.

  • He pointed out that in case of a fight Payn would stay in anyway, since the consent of the State Senate was necessary not only to appoint a man to office but to remove him from office.

  • It, moreover, equally enables the general and the State governments to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side, or on the other.

  • Its repugnancy to an adequate supply of the national exigencies has been already pointed out, and has sufficiently appeared from the trial which has been made of it.

  • Not the least difference can be pointed out in any view of the subject.

  • His communism was vague and ineffectual, but he was one of the minor forces in the thought of the period, and there are some features in his theory which deserve to be pointed out.

  • If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

  • I pointed out to Judge Douglas that in his Freeport speech he had promised to investigate that matter.

  • I believe that no fault can be pointed out in that argument; assuming the truth of the premises, the conclusion, so far as I have capacity at all to understand it, follows inevitably.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are often; being nearly; buttered paper; civil causes; effective force; exact science; good home; hour later; hundred sous; little turn; longer seemed; million gallons; other lands; pointed arch; pointed arches; pointed architecture; pointed instrument; pointed knife; pointed out; pointed star; pointed stars; pointed stick; pointed wings; the first; tight compartments; twenty miles