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Point the way   /pɔɪnt ðə weɪ/   Listen
Point the way

verb
1.
Indicate the right path or direction.






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"Point the way" Quotes from Famous Books



... the field of health completely, for though it is very simple, it is as big as life. The most helpful parts of this book will be those which point the way for each individual to understand his relation to what we call nature, and hence help to enable him to gain a better ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... for life by their inordinately large families, and their years are passed in one long battle to live; meanwhile the woman's health is sacrificed and her life embittered from the same cause. To all of these, we point the way of relief and of happiness; for the sake of these we publish what others fear to issue, and we do it, confident that if we fail the first time, we shall succeed at last, and that the English public will not permit the authorities to stifle a discussion of the most ...
— Autobiographical Sketches • Annie Besant

... darkness drear 'Twixt God and me is riven; Her loving eyes Reveal the skies And point the way ...
— Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century • Edmund O. Jones

... elements being broken up into simpler constituents. Much remains to be done in this same direction; and here the stars and nebulae, which show the spectra of the elements under a great variety of conditions, should help to point the way. The progressive changes in spectra, from the exclusive indications of the simple elements hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, possibly carbon, and the terrestrially unknown gas nebulium in the gaseous nebulae, to the long list of familiar substances, ...
— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale

... his furry ears, tempting him with descriptions like Suetonius's account of the Roman circuses. Automobiles with megaphones and placards summon him from the street corners. Electric signs—debauches of writhing colour—intoxicate his mind and point the way to haunts of Caracalla. ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright


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