Arrowpoint

It's similarly unlikely that many medical device startups would sell for more than $1 billion--which Cisco Systems paid for each of four startups, Pirelli, Cerent, Geotel and Arrowpoint, in 1999 and 2000.

Top Tech's Dealmakers: New Enterprise Associates' Ryan DrantNew Enterprise Associates' Ryan Drant 2006

Miss Arrowpoint foresaw a new pretender to her hand: a political man of good family who confidently expected a peerage, and felt on public grounds that he required a larger fortune to support the title properly.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Mr. Grandcourt taking hardly any notice of her, and becoming shortly engaged to Miss Arrowpoint, was not a picture which flattered her imagination.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Arrowpoint had a mastery of the instrument which put her own execution out of question -- though she was not discouraged as to her often-praised touch and style.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

"I wonder which style Miss Arrowpoint admires most," was a thought that glanced through Gwendolen's mind, while her eyes and lips gathered rather

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

I think I never saw any one so admirable as Miss Arrowpoint.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

She did not wish Miss Arrowpoint or any one else to be out of the way, believing in her own good fortune even more than in her skill.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Arrowpoint, was no more a paradox than any other triumph of a manifold sympathy over a monotonous attraction.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Lush, indeed, on inferring that Grandcourt had a preconception of using his residence at Diplow in order to win Miss Arrowpoint, had thought it well to fan that project, taking it as a tacit renunciation of the marriage with Mrs. Glasher, which had long been a mark for the hovering and wheeling of Grandcourt's caprice.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Quetcham, where he will find Miss Arrowpoint just married to a needy musician, Mr.. Arrowpoint tearing her cap off, and Mr. Arrowpoint standing by.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849