1 The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point.
2 One end of it was hardened by charring in the fire, and was sharpened to a fine point.
3 Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh.
4 There was something about his manner so suspicious that I asked him point blank if he had been asleep.
5 At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea.
6 , is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.
7 I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will.
8 As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold fell out.
9 What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal; when duty, a cause, etc.
10 It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again; and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was so.
11 I knew from the way Dr. Van Helsing was searching about that he was trying to seek some strategic point, where we would be less exposed in case of attack.
12 Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point of it in the body.
13 When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me.
14 Striking the turnscrew through the lead with a swift downward stab, which made me wince, he made a small hole, which was, however, big enough to admit the point of the saw.
15 Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point.
16 Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is finished, and that she can henceforth leave the rest to us.
17 Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.
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