' 'Yes, perhaps it will be the turning-point of your life,' said Vincy. 'Ah!

Campanella, who believed in astrology, looked forward with intense anxiety to this turning-point in modern history.

This date is clearly about the turning-point in British sentiment and policy towards Germany.

If the Tower guns were announcing the birth of an heir to the Throne, he would not look up to ask, "What is that?" It was the turning-point of my life, for had there been no first brief pretty soon, I should have thought my kind relations' predictions were about to be verified.

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

In consequence of these reflections a great change comes over him, which is the turning-point of his history.

It was the turning-point.

I have reason to believe that M. Zola regards the death of President Faure as the crucial turning-point in the whole Dreyfus business.

He and Kent stood together close to the turning-point.

In the relation of the Gospels to the growth of the Christian society and the development of Christian doctrine, and especially to the great turning-point in the history, the taking of Jerusalem, there is very considerable internal evidence for determining the date within which they must have been composed.

In detailing the curious circumstances of the following story, I am again only reporting a real law case to be found in the Court of Session Records, the turning-point of which was as invisible to the judges as to the parties themselvesthat is, until the end came; a circumstance again which made the case a kind of developed romance.

This as a rule marks the turning-point in the case.

My mother always said that the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

When the invalids became able to rise for dinner, it was a turning-point in their case; and they were soon getting into the apartment where there were games and books and meetings of old comrades.

TURNING-POINTS Luke xix.

They may be the very turning-points of your lives.

How ignorant we often are, at the time, of the turning-points in our life!

And one of the turning-points of Europe had come in the hour when he avowed his conversion from the un-Christian and un-European policy into which his dexterous Oriental master, Disraeli, had dragged him; and declared that England had "put her money on the wrong horse."

It wouldn't have been unnatural if I had sworn at him, but this was the turning-point of my life, and I behaved in a way that surprised myself.

She would have said, I think, that her sojourn in Haworth was the turning-point.

If that was so, it follows that the old founders of the midsummer rites had observed the solstices or turning-points of the sun's apparent path in the sky, and that they accordingly regulated their festal calendar to some extent by astronomical considerations.

Yet the first of May and the first of November mark turning-points of the year in Europe; the one ushers in the genial heat and the rich vegetation of summer, the other heralds, if it does not share, the cold and barrenness of winter.

First, in regard to the dates of the festivals it can be no mere accident that two of the most important and widely spread of the festivals are timed to coincide more or less exactly with the summer and winter solstices, that is, with the two turning-points in the sun's apparent course in the sky when he reaches respectively his highest and his lowest elevation at noon.

And the scenes of profligacy which appear to have marked the midsummer celebration among the Esthonians, as they once marked the celebration of May Day among ourselves, may have sprung, not from the mere license of holiday-makers, but from a crude notion that such orgies were justified, if not required, by some mysterious bond which linked the life of man to the courses of the heavens at this turning-point of the year.

The year 1878 forms a turning-point both in internal and in external politics.