In passin' along this line, we had to round the end of a hill that terminated in a sharp point of rocks.

The horns, unlike the character of the order generally, have a quadrangular base, and, sweeping inwards, terminate in a sharp point.

The rank of those who now received us, however, was indicated by a silver ribbon passing over the left shoulder, and supporting what I should have called a staff, save that it was of metal and had a sharp point, rendering it almost as formidable a weapon as the rapier.

But Noel's eyes looked far away as he spoke, and in his heart he was thinking of his bow and his long arrow with the sharp point, and of a moonlit night with white shapes flitting noiselessly over the snow and scratching at the door of the little cabin.

This blob, more prominent in some men than in others, is, I believe, a surviving relic of the sharp point which adorned the ears of our animal ancestors.

Who's that runs headlong on my quill's sharp point, That, wearied of his life and baser breath, Offers himself to an Iambic verse? PHANTASMA.

The blade is ten inches long, two inches broad at the base, and tapering to a rounded but sharp point, rather peculiar.

Toward the north, the slender fore-body and the round head can be seen, and toward the south, one sees the back-bodywhich first broadens out, and then narrows to a sharp point.

He never noticed that the curve of their turbans was not the same, and the idol mark on their foreheads was quite different, nor even that their shoes were not forked at the toes, but ended in a sharp point curled upwards.

" Well, Buddy walked up to the store, got a vanilla ice cream cone, and had just finished the last of it, even down to the sharp point of the cone, where there wasn't any ice cream, when who should come along but Billie and Johnnie Bushytail.

Then sharpen both ends to a nice sharp point.

The rent in the canoe was the only thing that seemed quite inexplicable; and, after all, it was conceivable that a sharp point had caught it when we landed.

She leaned toward the crystal in order to see better the devouring activity of that pyramidal stomach which had on its sharp point a diminutive parrot head with two ferocious eyes and around its base the twisted skeins of its arms full of projecting disks.

And yet, he was wearing a beard, close clipped on the cheeks and forming over the chin a short, sharp point.

With gentle stealthiness he drew from his belt an English knife, acquired at the time that he was skipper of a small boat,a shining blade which reproduced the faces of those looking at it, with the sharp point of a stiletto and the edge of a razor.

Upon a long, low, flat-bottomed hull, which tapered to a sharp point at bow and stern, was raised a light wooden superstructure with a flat roof, upon which the passengers could sit.

He feeds on seeds like a Canary bird; so his beak comes to a sharp point, because seeds are small things to pick up; and it is very strong and horny, because seeds are hard to crack, to get at the kernel.

Now think, children, how many things we have found about this Sparrow's head that are quite like our own,ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and tongue,only there are no lips or teeth, because the horny beak, with its hard edges and sharp point, answers both for lips and teeth.

They have lithe and shapely bodies, strong, slender wings, wide mouths, and flat, broad bills coming to a sharp point, which makes it easy for them to secure whatever they meet in the air.

The Eagle was fairly impaled on a sharp point of the sunken reef and was immovable, but the waves were dashing high over the bows.

So the man promised and made a sharp point to his plough pole but whenever they ploughed, the son drove his plough so fast that the father could not catch him up and so the boy was not killed; then the woman abused her husband and said that he was deceiving her.

Opposite to it is a sharp point, fronted by a shoal, and the channel is on the eastern side of the river, with thirteen feet water.

The hounds were all on a flat shelf some few feet below us, and on a sharp point of rock close by, but too far for the dogs to reach, crouched the lion.

You will perhaps have removed a small bit of the wood with the bark, which you must take carefully out with the sharp point of your knife and your thumb; then tuck the bark and bud under the bark of the stock which you carefully bind over, letting the bud come at the part where the slits cross each other.

51.Diagram of specific gravity apparatus, showing a balance with container (c) filled with water in which the test block (b) is held submerged by a light rod (a) which is adjustable vertically and provided with a sharp point to be driven into the specimen.]