Like a Gothic arch

Usage examples of pointed.

Salmissra, her eyes ablaze, pointed at the prostrate Essia and snapped her fingers twice.

It cannot be classified as a whorl of the double loop type because the formation above the lower loop is too pointed and it also has an appendage abutting upon it at a right angle.

The shriveled Vistana had gazed at Clarissewith those hard black eyes, and had pointed with acrooked finger toward the manor house, perched like adark bird on the tor above the village.

He was asking about the inertial navigation system that kept their position updated between fixes from the NAV SAT Linden leaned over the aft rail of the conn, over the chart table, and pointed with his finger to their estimated position.

After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.

Signing for Alec to keep quiet, she settled behind a fallen tree and pointed across to the other side.

Cyrus Harding pointed one leg of the compasses to the horizon, the other to Alpha, and the space between the two legs gave him the angular distance which separated Alpha from the horizon.

He pointed out that the growth of trade unions and democracy had vitiated the raw power of capitalists and had ameliorated capitalism.

And a powerful Adept as well that much was evident from the signs all over him that pointed to constant manipulations of mage-energy on a scale Ancar had only dreamed of.

Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.

Only the monstrous, frightening head, with pointed ears aprick, hanging there immobile.

He pointed to the old, gray-haired Arcadian bear who was three seats down from Dante.

Sir John Ardagh pointed out there would be nothing to prevent a state from constructing rifles of a new pattern and storing them in arsenals until needed.

Clyde completed the story by leaving it in the air, asking the pointed question: Would Ewell Darden surprise his guests this evening by showing them the choicest treasures of the Argyle Museum collection, housed beneath the same roof where Darden kept his own rare prizes?

And he insisted on making amends for his imposture the day before an imposture, he pointed out, that had singularly failed due to their collective skills by ordering bumpers of arrack punch.