Lexicographical Neighbors of Penpoint
Literary usage of Penpoint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine by Winfield Scott Hall (1904)
"Wrap a penholder in white paper, leaving only the tip of the penpoint projecting,
dip the latter in ink, or dip the point of a white feather in ink, ..."
2. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"... and spared not ink, till inspiration perched on my penpoint, and my soul gave
up its best. When I had done, I was myself impressed with the length, ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The best type of recording thermometers depend upon the movements of bimetallic
bars, so arranged that as they contract and expand they cause a penpoint to ..."
4. English Usage: Studies in the History and Uses of English Words and Phrases by John Lesslie Hall (1917)
"The singular, however, never sat comfortably upon either his tongue or his penpoint.
Do not the statistics gathered in this course of reading justify him in ..."
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