interrogation-point

• “And crook the begging hinges of the knee"; but, doubtful as to this at first, (for we regard the interrogation-point as a query to himself, and not as indicating the insertion of that point after "Dost thou hear,") he finally came to the conclusion, that, although he, and many a respectable poet, might have written "begging" in this passage, Shakespeare was just the man to write”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861

• “Charles Reade makes an exclamation -- and an interrogation-point together say as much as many novelists can dibble over a whole page.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864

• “At Mr. Le Moyne's house there boarded a walking interrogation-point of a woman.”

  Stage Confidences

• “A LIVING interrogation-point and a born investigator from childhood, Edison has never been without a laboratory of some kind for upward of half a century.”

  Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2

• “A LIVING interrogation-point and a born investigator from childhood,”

  Edison, His Life and Inventions

• “Each star that blinked down at him as he rode in answer to a night-call seemed an interrogation-point asking, How do I exist?”

  A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences

• “The captain came onto his tiptoes in order to elongate himself as a human interrogation-point.”

  All-Wool Morrison

• “Theodore on one side -- standing there like a tall interrogation-point -- I honestly believe I can defy Mr. Sloane on the other.”

  Stories by American Authors, Volume 5

• “My mother sometimes called me "an animated interrogation-point.”

  When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood

• “There was an eternal query, – an habitual interrogation-point to almost every proposition in my mind, even from childhood, – a habit of looking at everything from so many sides, that it was difficult to get a settled assent to anything.”

  Oldtown Folks

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