Citations:p'int

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English citations of p'int and p'ints

Noun: "Pronunciation spelling of point."

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  • 1877, R. Elton Smile, chapter 2, in The Manatitlans; Or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A.[1], pages 20–21:
    "There was the p'int clear, and we said 'Never a bit!' So you see after the flurry was over we put the question to the others and they took the bearings at once; so you see that we've concluded that we're only 'titled to prize money at most, just as you valer the danger we run with the savages.
  • 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics[2], page 87:
    "Used to call this p'int Joanna's wharf privilege, but't has worn away in the weather since her time.
  • 2012, various, chapter 13, in The Boy Scouts Book of Stories[3], unnumbered page:
    Then somebody tells him it's the duckin' season down to Setuckit P'int, and he says he'll spend his day off, while the boss is away, massycreein' the coots there.