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There are the honeycombs of friendly bees, and the shelters of many a timid earth-born speck of life no bigger than a dewdrop, mysteriously small. Radiant pin-points of existence have their palaces on the broad blades of the grasses, and in the cellars at their roots works many a humble little slave of the mighty elements.
Do you still think it a happy release?" Val's shrewd eyes narrowed to grey pin-points between their dark lashes. "Fleur wouldn't have suited him a bit. She's not bred right." "Poor little Fleur!" sighed Holly. Ah! it was strange this marriage! The young man, Mont, had caught her on the rebound, of course, in the reckless mood of one whose ship has just gone down.
As far as warmth went, there was no need for fire at all as soon as the meal was cooked: but out there in the vast purple-blackness of the night with pin-points of starlight in the illimitable loneliness the rose and gold of the spurting flames was comforting and comradely.
The Pleiades, that Orion Fired at the Bull These are the seven shots in the Bull's shoulder, the seven arrows from Orion's bow. The Guide can locate them by continuing the line of Orion's belt, eight times the length of the belt to the right, as one faces the Hunter, so Orion must have been very close indeed. At first they look like a faint light with a few bright pin-points scattered through.
When one grows older, the power, usually, departs, but while it lasts it may descend upon a man at any moment. 'Who is Kim Kim Kim? He squatted in a corner of the clanging waiting-room, rapt from all other thoughts; hands folded in lap, and pupils contracted to pin-points.
I had lost sight of Barbel for some years, and I had supposed him still floating on the sun-sparkling stream of prosperity where I had last seen him. It was a great shock to me to find him in such a condition of poverty and squalor, and to see a man who had originated the "Conundrum of the Anvil" reduced to the soul-depressing occupation of grinding pin-points.
He groped for the tin box, and got it, and bit off a corner of the sticky brown lump, and ate it as he went along, and his laboured breathing calmed, and the chilly sweat dried upon his copper-burned skin, that had the purplish-black tinge in it that comes of saturation with iodide of potassium. And the pupils of his colourless eyes dwindled to pin-points, and his thick hands ceased to shake.
Leering, he began with a gliding, stealthy movement to advance. "Stop!" cried I, in a voice that wasn't mine, it was so sharp and thin and reedy. "Go back where you came from! Don't you dare to take another step! Go back!" The hands hooked into outstretched claws. His head sunk between his shoulders. Of the eyes, only red pin-points showed in the twitching face.
"I found this on the carpet beside Parrish's body," he said. "Look, it's exactly the same paper ..." Behind the tortoise-shell spectacles the big man's eyes narrowed down to pin-points as he caught sight of the sheet which Robin unfolded and its series of slits. "Aha!" he cried and his voice rang out clear through the room "the grill, eh? Well, well, to think of that!"
Your father lodged here. And the Syndic Blondel, was it you said? How comes he into it? Grio was prating of him, I suppose?" For an instant, while he waited the answer to the question, his eyes shrank again to pin-points. "He came in and found us at sword-play," Claude answered. "Or just falling to it.
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