p'int

I did all I could t 'bring myself up to a p'int that I hoped I could reach you frum -- but 't warn't in me.

Janet of the Dunes

"Well, sah," said the old man, reflectively, "my mem'ry is a little derelictious on dat p'int, but I knows 'twas gettin 'putty late."

That Mainwaring Affair

Miss Twitchel said, in this case every providence seems to p'int.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Was there ever a woman as wasn't willin 't' fling herself away, if a man was reckless enough t 'p'int the path out t' her?

Janet of the Dunes

"Thin, sor, we ran for five hours from that p'int on a west by south course, going between ten and twelve knots; for, though I didn't say it meself, Mister Fosset tould me the wind was freshinin 'all the toime, so that we must have travelled about sixty miles, more or less."

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

Some of dem ha'nts would p'int a gun in your face if you met 'em in de dark.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

"Aye, aye, sir," answered the man addressed, "her boat's just over there by the p'int, just agoin 'to shove off."

Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

"All right, mister; we won't argy the p'int now; but you haven't answered me yet as to what you ken do."

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

For he kept every j'int right up to the p'int wid the tap of the tampin-bar-r-r;

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

` It's moighty kind of you two young gintlemen going for to say her, an 'I'll make a p'int of lettin' the docther know whin he comes back from the

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin