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  • I sed before, I'm a lineal descendant uv ther notorious Ain and Cable, and I've lit down hyar among ye ter explain a few p'ints 'bout true blessedness and true cussedness.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

  • As reg'lar as the mornin 'watch the sharks came for their breakfast; we could see 'em comin' from all p'ints

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • It's like knowin 'the weak p'ints of a vessel, ye ain't goin' t 'strain the weak p'ints, once ye know 'em, an' like as not the vessel'll last twice as long as a seemin 'sound boat.

    Janet of the Dunes

  • "Howsomever, there's still another party ter which the finger of suspicion p'ints."

    How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

  • My father used to raise fine horses, and Abram used to say that when it come to knowin 'a horse's p'ints, he'd back me against any man in

    Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

  • You know what that is, -- a loaded gun set in such a way that a bear or any game that's curious about it, must come up to it the way it p'ints; a bait is hung before the muzzle, and a string runs from that to the trigger.

    The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

  • The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.'

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

    The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1932

  • Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

    The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1932

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