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A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
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