A gentleman carrying a gun, with two
pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened.
Thus, a man who intends keeping
pointers naturally tries to get as good dogs as he can, and afterwards breeds from his own best dogs, but he has no wish or expectation of permanently altering the breed.
He follows rigidly the conventions of dress and manners; but in the business of poking his nose into places where he does not belong he could give
pointers to a civet cat or a jackdaw.
My sporting dogs consist of two
pointers, two harriers and two setters.
"I'll give you a few
pointers on this whirling game, my boy," Daylight was saying to him, when Bob whirled.
Three were short-haired
pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other two were mongrels of indeterminate breed.
However often she told herself that she must not get irritable when teaching her nephew, almost every time that,
pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into the child- who was already afraid that Auntie might at any moment get angry- that at his slightest inattention she trembled, became flustered and heated, raised her voice, and sometimes pulled him by the arm and put him in the corner.
Upon its nose was a dial and a
pointer. He set the
pointer for a certain station in Greater Helium, raised the arched lid of the thing, stepped in and lay down upon the upholstered bottom.
Not a whit abashed by the disappointment caused by his having come in place of the old prince, Veslovsky greeted Levin gaily, claiming acquaintance with him in the past, and snatching up Grisha into the carriage, lifted him over the
pointer that Stepan Arkadyevitch had brought with him.
Beyond her and a favourite old
pointer he had, and between whom and himself an attachment subsisted during the period of his imbecility, the old man had not a single friend to mourn him, having indeed, during the whole course of his life, never taken the least pains to secure one.
There, it is like this." Joan Durbeyfield, as she spoke, curved a sodden thumb and forefinger to the shape of the letter C, and used the other forefinger as a
pointer, "'At the present moment,' he says to your father, 'your heart is enclosed all round there, and all round there; this space is still open,' 'a says.
Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials -- yes, and a
pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on.