In the centre of the circular hole was an oval pedestal (with one end pointing to the furnace-mouth), on which and on the side wall the floor was supported, being formed of perforated angular bricks meeting in the centre.
Suddenly my gun-bearer, pointingto the left, showed me two herds of elephants approaching us.
My knife, too, was within convenient grasp, and the fox-hounds were pointing directly to me.
When near the latter stream, he found a lodge, evidently occupied at the time, and the tracks near it, fresh and distinct, pointing to the southward.
After a mile or so our bear had come to an immense fallen spruce, lying across the trail, with the big butt, five or six feet in diameter, to our right, the top pointing up the hill.
I shall be wounded(3) to-morrow," pointingabove her right breast.
Mulgrum returned and presented him the letter, pointing out the mistake he had discovered.
Martin, pointing to a wide ditch or gully that lay in front of them.
He stood like a bronze statue,--his head thrown back and his chest advanced, with one foot planted firmly before him and the spear pointing towards the cave.
Jack sternly, pointing his pistol at the man, as he was in the act of leaning over to reach his rifle.
Yes, we left a poor English lady and her child down there," Jack answered, pointing down the hill.
Look down the street," he continued, pointing in the direction of the government buildings.
Carthage, too, he added, pointing directly to the enterprises of Cumberland, had a Hannibal who would pass the Alps.
He carried me upstairs to the sofa, and, pointing out a bookshelf for my amusement, and telling me to order tea if I wished for it, went back to my mother.
This tendency to pointing is always defeated by the cutting off of the end, the truncation being usually effected in a line curved upward, so as to produce a single shallow notch.
It was found, however, pointing directly toward the median line of the body, and was short because a part had been separated from the rest by slough.
The relation, however, of saturnine poisoning to gout in this association is not easy to determine, Garrod himself pointing out that while the women in the lead-works frequently had the colic, they but rarely had gout.
Several cases are on record pointing to the possibility of a metastasis of mumps from the parotid gland to the pancreas.
When pointing of an abscess occurs, a large flaxseed poultice is a soothing and a mechanically supporting application.
At the period of puberty in young girls this is of even greater moment, and no opportunity should be lost for pointing out the danger of neglect.
The suppurative process is usually circumscribed and unilateral, and the abscess points most frequently just beneath the side of the tongue; sometimes, however, the pointing takes place at the dorsum, sometimes at the tip.
The following classes of cases of gastric ulcer may be distinguished: First: Gastric ulcer may give rise to no symptoms pointing to its existence, and be found accidentally at the autopsy when death has occurred from some other disease.
Through the opening made to discharge the pus from a fluctuating abscess pointing in the vaginal vault an india-rubber tube could be passed for six to eight inches.
He subsequently ascertained that there had been symptomspointing to gastric disease.
It is addressed to me, too, Anderson," said his wife, pointing to the envelope.
Looking back, Anderson Crow saw excited men dashing about, most of them pointing excitedly up into the hills across the river.
The men of the posse were pointing at the boat and arguing frantically; there were decided signs of dispute among them.
Tommy, pointingto his throat, and then to the pool, with a frown of disgust.
Haidia was pointingupward at the starry heaven, and shivering with fear.
They lingered up stairs in their own apartment, William pointing to the moss-covered rock that lay at the foot of the garden.
The lad had sprung to his feet and was pointing with both hands toward the rough snow-covered ground.
Suddenly a flood of light filled the forest, and each tree stretched out its arms--silently and reverently pointing to a wonderful picture.
The tower of the little forest church should be slender and airy, like an upward-pointing finger, warning, threatening, or promising.
It stretches out one hand, pointing to a broad stone, and then disappears.
This battery of six guns, the one on the right hand, pointing directly out of the picture, looks quite formidable.
The officer pointing with outstretched arm is indicating the very spot at which a shell fired from his gun would fall.
So, while Hardee was pointing to his comrade and his chief the danger of one of his divisions which the Federal advance was cutting off, the bishop-general was struck in the chest by a cannon shot.
The track they make is huge, and precisely the reverse of the sheep’s; it is a capital V, pointing backward.
The sheep’s track is a V also, but pointing forward.
Sometimes I would sing to drive away the awful thoughts which were crowding upon me, but then the Izimu would sign wildly for me to desist, pointing above their heads to the supposed doorway.
And this, in fact, he was just able to do, pointing out where their stronghold lay, though we could not understand the tongue with which he spoke.
Yonder is a mound upon the plain,' pointing to a small rise outside our lines about four times the distance a man could cast a spear.
So I made signs by pointing to the hole I had dropped down by, and then making as though I would walk through the rock.
There," she said, pointing to a clump of firs, "I should like to raise a cenotaph to the memory of the unfortunate Brotteaux des Ilettes.
In vain Atheism still lifts its hideous face; Maximilien grasps a torch; flames devour the monster and Wisdom appears, with one hand pointing to the sky, in the other holding a crown of stars.
Leaf by leaf the pile grew; pointing to this mass of undecipherable scrawls, he would say: "Ah!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pointing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
